Saturday, March 18, 2017

"In Cold Blood" Expanded


In Cold Blood includes corrupt government employees and the author, Truman Capote, now according to this morning's Wall Street Journal. Capote didn't reveal that convicted killer Richard Hickock had written with Kansas journalist Mack Nations his own book about killing the family at the farmhouse. Hickock was writing it in installments at his prison and mailing them to Nations. After two hundred pages, prison officials decided that death row inmates couldn't have visitations or correspondence. The IRS charged Nations with tax evasion.
Sadistic, power-mad government employees had decided to shut them down as they didn't want the truth to get in the way of hanging Hickock or to allowing Capote to make millions off his book maybe ( who knows what and how evil- sick their motivations were?). Nations eventually was eventually found innocent of the IRS charges but by then he had lost his newspaper job and all his money.
He did complete the book which was titled High Road To Hell. Ironically, that is what writing the book caused him. The book was rejected by Random House as it had accepted Capote's In Cold Blood. Apparently Nations didn't submit the book anywhere else. Perhaps, he was beaten down by then. He got a job at a small newspaper in Colorado and in two years died supposedly in a single car accident. Bureaucrats are so tidy!
     Now In Cold Blood has expanded to include the long arm of corrupt government employees and the lowness of Truman Capote never revealing that Richard Hickock was writing his own book in prison. Instead, he libeled Hickock by writing that he was whiling away his remaining time of earth by reading erotic novels and law books.

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