fasstrack Posted October 13, 2012 Report Share Posted October 13, 2012 This touched me as much as anything in print media has in a while. About the life and death of a guy railroaded by a racist 1964 N.Y. justice system into confessing to murders and an attempted rape. He spent 9 years in jail before being cleared, and was broken but not embittered. He was front-page news back then but recently died w/o a murmur from the press. The author of a book on Whitmore's life and times, T.J. English, wrote this moving tribute, which appears on p. A 21 in the print edition. Will someone w/a computer please post a link? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jazzmoose Posted October 13, 2012 Report Share Posted October 13, 2012 http://www.nytimes.com/2012/10/13/opinion/who-will-mourn-george-whitmore.html?_r=1&pagewanted=all Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fasstrack Posted October 14, 2012 Author Report Share Posted October 14, 2012 http://www.nytimes.com/2012/10/13/opinion/who-will-mourn-george-whitmore.html?_r=1&pagewanted=all Thanks! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fasstrack Posted October 14, 2012 Author Report Share Posted October 14, 2012 According to his amazon.com page T.J. English writes a lot about organized crime activity. He's author of 2 books on Irish gangs: The Westies-which, I take it, is well-known, and Paddy Whacked. There's one on the Italian-American mafia and how they lost Cuba to the revolution: Havana Nocturne. The book on Whitmore-of whom I'd never heard but he made me care about-probably as good a description as any of good writing-is Savage City. Judging from the passion and skill he showed even in the 'tight writing' required in op-ed writing they should all be well-worth reading. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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