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Post by scathma on Dec 14, 2017 10:06:42 GMT -5
Anthony Scaduto, a journalist and author who wrote the first serious biography of Bob Dylan and an investigative book contending that Bruno Richard Hauptmann was wrongly executed in the kidnapping of Charles Lindbergh’s baby, died on Tuesday at his home in Brooklyn. He was 85.
www.nytimes.com/2017/12/13/obituaries/anthony-scaduto-an-early-biographer-of-dylan-dies-at-85.html
“ ‘Scapegoat’ should be compulsory reading for those who fear that postwar rulings by the Supreme Court, protecting the rights of the accused, have tied the hands of justice,” John L. Hess wrote in reviewing the book in The Times. “By overriding the rights of Hauptmann, the authorities may well have let the real perpetrators get away.”
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Post by wolfman666 on Dec 15, 2017 9:56:38 GMT -5
have great respect for scaduto, even though I disagree with his book, he had the guts to debate it, not like a few other authors at the time who refused. im talking about the eighties
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Post by Michael on Dec 15, 2017 10:05:40 GMT -5
have great respect for scaduto, even though I disagree with his book, he had the guts to debate it, not like a few other authors at the time who refused. im talking about the eighties He didn't prepare for this as he should have which is why he shouldn't have done it.
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Post by hurtelable on Dec 16, 2017 13:26:02 GMT -5
have great respect for scaduto, even though I disagree with his book, he had the guts to debate it, not like a few other authors at the time who refused. im talking about the eighties He didn't prepare for this as he should have which is why he shouldn't have done it. Having never read Scaduto's book, I believe that he emphasized the grossly unfair - and what today would be considered unconstitutional - procedures used by government officials (specially police and prosecutors) to get a murder conviction on Hauptmann. But if Scaduto claimed Hauptmann innocent, did he present an alternate theory as to who were the culprits in the disappearance and presumed death of CAL Jr.? Would someone who read Scaduto"s book please help me on this?
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Post by Michael on Dec 17, 2017 8:55:24 GMT -5
Having never read Scaduto's book, I believe that he emphasized the grossly unfair - and what today would be considered unconstitutional - procedures used by government officials (specially police and prosecutors) to get a murder conviction on Hauptmann. But if Scaduto claimed Hauptmann innocent, did he present an alternate theory as to who were the culprits in the disappearance and presumed death of CAL Jr.? Would someone who read Scaduto"s book please help me on this? The only time I ever read his book cover to cover was either in HS or College. For whatever reason I tend to confuse these two time-periods in my head. Exactly why I have no explanation. Regardless, one thing I find myself going back to his book to lookup was his interview with Bleefeld. I think it was this interview which ultimately led him to believe that Ellis Parker was correct all along.
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Post by wolfman666 on Dec 18, 2017 10:22:38 GMT -5
he was prepared as much as his book told.
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Post by wolfman666 on Dec 18, 2017 10:23:51 GMT -5
I know for a fact lud kennedy refused to debate his book.
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Post by Michael on Dec 18, 2017 10:43:45 GMT -5
he was prepared as much as his book told. Not according to my sources. Regardless, if the books determined who won then they both lost.
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Post by wolfman666 on Dec 19, 2017 10:55:22 GMT -5
they both didn't lose. his beliefs and assumptions and myths were addressed
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Post by Michael on Dec 19, 2017 11:42:58 GMT -5
they both didn't lose. his beliefs and assumptions and myths were addressed There's a TON of "myths" in both of his books too. I can't seem to get through one page without seeing at least one mistake.
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Post by wolfman666 on Dec 22, 2017 10:29:15 GMT -5
but mike they both wrote them before the computer age. im sure theres mistakes but ronnelles board with the beginning researchers made it very easy for the ones starting out with this case. its clear scadutos book is full of myths and mistakes but its hard without a computer to study this case then I have to give him slack
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Post by Michael on Dec 22, 2017 12:08:17 GMT -5
but mike they both wrote them before the computer age. im sure theres mistakes but ronnelles board with the beginning researchers made it very easy for the ones starting out with this case. its clear scadutos book is full of myths and mistakes but its hard without a computer to study this case then I have to give him slack What I am saying has nothing to do with that. When you have a book which claims anyone who doesn't believe what's written in it is a "Revisionist" or is somehow an idiot or something then it's my position that it had better be right. There are people who, after reading his books, believe that qualifies them as an "expert" on the case. It's those same people who have gone so far as to create their own dialogue, like Fisher did in his first book, then later cited those fictional conversations as sources to support a specific position. So by creating imaginary conversations in a non-fiction book, it's opened the door to charlatans who believe they have that right as well. Nobody does. I realize no one ever thought there'd be so much real research put into thing but let's call a spade a spade.
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