Characterizations of Pettis integrability, including the Geitz-Talagrand core theorem, are derived in an easy way. The purpose of this note is to point out how a folklore result (Proposition 1) can be made the basis for relatively easy proofs of some recent results about Pettis integrability. Our notation follows Dunford and Schwartz [1]. Let (fi, E, A) be a complete probability space, and let X be a Banach space with continuous dual X*. A function /: Í2-► X is Dunford integrable provided the composition T{x*) = x*f is in L1(X) for every x* in X*. In this case, it follows (from the closed graph theorem) that T:X*-► Ll(X) is a bounded linear operator. Hence, for every g in 7/°°(A), the map pg, defined by X** is not necessarily countably additive. It can be shown that v is countably additive if and only if T is a weakly compact operator if and only if {x*f: \\x*\\ < 1} is uniformly integrable in L1{X) [1, pp. 319, 485, 292].