Sherman Skolnick Explained

Sherman H. Skolnick
Birth Date:July 13, 1930
Birth Place:Chicago, Illinois, US
Death Date:May 21, 2006 (aged 75)
Death Place:Chicago, Illinois, US
Occupation:Author and investigative journalist

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

Books

External links

Notes and References

  1. Book: Fenster, Mark . 1999 . Conspiracy Theories: Secrecy and Power in American Culture . Minneapolis, Minnesota . University of Minnesota Press . 84 . 9780816632428 . April 2, 2015.
  2. Book: Kellner, Douglas . Douglas Kellner . 2003 . Media Spectacle . London . Routledge . 120 . 9781134493951 . April 2, 2015.
  3. Book: Smith, Christopher E. . John Paul Stevens: A Liberal Leader & His Roles on the Court . https://books.google.com/books?id=UeWGAwAAQBAJ&pg=PA123 . Smith . Christopher E. . DeJong . Christina . McCall . Michael A. . The Rehnquist Court and Criminal Justice . Lanham, Maryland . Lexington Books . 2011 . 128 . 9780739140826 . April 2, 2015.
  4. News: Sherman Skolnick . . May 23, 2006 . Noel . Josh . March 8, 2014.
  5. Judges: Skolnick's Guerrilla War . https://web.archive.org/web/20071025034329/http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,901306,00.html . dead . October 25, 2007 . August 29, 1969 . Time.
  6. Review of Illinois Justice: The Scandal of 1969 and the Rise of John Paul Stevens . Journal of Criminal Justice and Popular Culture . Patten . Joseph N. . 2003–2004 . 10 . 3 . 233–237 . 2014-03-09 . 2014-04-25 . https://web.archive.org/web/20140425205906/http://www.albany.edu/scj/jcjpc/old-indices/vol10is3/patten.pdf . dead .