Sherman Skolnick
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Sherman H. Skolnick (July 13, 1930 – May 21, 2006) was a Chicago-based activist and conspiracy theorist.[1][2][3]
Early life
Born in Chicago in 1930, at the age of six, Skolnick was paralyzed by polio, and he used a wheelchair for the rest of his life.[4] His parents, a homemaker and a tailor, were Jewish European immigrants.[4] Skolnick's father was from Russia.[5]
Career
Skolnick was founder and chairman of the Citizens' Committee to Clean Up the Courts,[4] which he started in 1963. He used the local press to distribute his reports, later establishing a telephone hotline–"Hotline News", a public-access television show on cable TV, and a web site.[4]
Skolnick's investigations put Otto Kerner Jr. in prison for three years; and led to the resignation of two Illinois Supreme Court justices, Roy J. Solfisburg, Jr. and Ray Klingbiel, who, as Skolnick reported, had accepted bribes of stock from a defendant in a case on which they ruled.[4] The scandal catapulted John Paul Stevens, special counsel to an investigating commission, to fame as a justice of the U.S. Supreme Court.[6] In 2001, the story became the subject of a book, Illinois Justice, by Kenneth A. Manaster.[6] His investigations also revealed corruption at the Bank of Credit and Commerce International (BCCI).
Skolnick's final written works include an 81-part series entitled "The Overthrow of the American Republic," and a 16-part series entitled "Coca-Cola, the CIA, and the Courts."[4]
Later life and death
Skolnick died of a heart attack on May 21, 2006.[4]
Publications
Articles
- "The Late Grand Dragon of the Washington Post." Skolnick's Report (July 23, 2001).
Books
- Ahead of the Parade: A Who's Who of Treason and High Crimes – Exclusive Details of Fraud and Corruption of the Monopoly Press, the Banks, the Bench and the Bar, and the Secret Political Police. Dandelion Books (2003). Template:ISBN.
- Overthrow of the American Republic: Writings of Sherman H. Skolnick. Dandelion Books (2007). Template:ISBN.
References
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External links
- Official website archive Template:Webarchive
- Sherman Skolnick file at the FBI (via Internet Archive)
- Sherman Skolnick collection at the Harold Weisberg Archive (via Internet Archive)
- Sherman Skolnick Suit collection at the Harold Weisberg Archive (via Internet Archive)
- "Sherman Skolnick Sounds Off!" Interview by Kenn Thomas.
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- 1930 births
- 2006 deaths
- 20th-century American Jews
- 20th-century American journalists
- 20th-century American male writers
- 20th-century American non-fiction writers
- Activists from Chicago
- American anti-corruption activists
- American conspiracy theorists
- American investigative journalists
- American male journalists
- American male non-fiction writers
- Critics of the Catholic Church
- Jewish American activists
- Jewish American journalists
- Jewish American non-fiction writers
- Journalists from Chicago