TWA 800 crash over the Atlantic Ocean verdict, 171–73
F
Farmer, James, 105, 107
Faw Palace, Al, Baghdad, Iraq, 158
FBI investigation of kidnapping and lost ransom money, 54–57
ferryboats rotting in the Hudson River, 174, 175, 176
film developing process, 257
fires
airliners collide causing fire in Brooklyn, 81, 83
astronauts killed in cockpit fire, 74–75
Gulliver’s restaurant and disco fire,
Portchester, New York, 270–71
photo of a Bronx fire brings a family together, 285, 285–87
Scott reporting on fire in building where he lived, 261
First Meeting (television pilot), 220
Fisher, Eddie, 233, 233–37
Forbes magazine, 24
Ford, Gerald, 179, 282
Fort Lee, New Jersey, fire in building where Scott lived, 261
Fortune Society prisoner rights organization, 67
funerals and memorials
astronauts killed in cockpit fire, 74–75
Collado, Stephanie, 35
Holocaust Memorial Museum, Washington, D.C., 238
King, Martin Luther, Jr., 108, 111, 112
Lennon, John, 101–2
McDonald’s massacre victims, 43
Memorial Park, Baghdad, xii
Rabin, Yitzhak, 150
Furth, Valerie Jakober, 240–41
G
Gaines, Edith, 183
Galella, Ron, 266–68
Gallup poll on Americans’ belief in paranormal, 31
Genton, Alfred, 188–91
Giancana, Sam, 9–10
Gillibrand, Kirsten, 168
Giuliani, Rudy, 246
and September 11, 2001, terrorist attacks, 120, 246–49
Goldin, Harrison J., 169
Gordon, Randy, 231–32
Gorman, Lorri, 114
Gorshin, Frank, 204–5
Grant, Joe, 59–60
grave of Mafia Don’s son, Scott’s back to, 265
Greenwich murders, Connecticut
overview, 44–45
hitman arrested, 48–49
Keegan’s built-up case against Jim Klein, 45–46, 47–48, 49, 50–51, 52
Klein, Kim, involvement with Chicago Mafia, bisexual lovers, and drugs, 47–48
Moxley, Martha, 45
police case against Jim Klein, 45–46
grief, learning sensitivity to, 270–71
Grissom, Virgil “Gus,” 73–75, 80
Grover’s Mill, New Jersey, and The War of the Worlds, 90–95
Gulliver’s restaurant and disco fire, Portchester, New York, 270–71
gun control laws and McDonald’s massacre, 42
H
Hanover, Donna, 247
Harrison, George, 98. See also Beatles, the
haunted house, Amityville, 25–31
heart transplant prospect retains faith in God, 32–35
Hell, Michigan, 272
Hindenburg explosion, 118
Hoffman, Kathleen Pearl, 61
Hoffman, Kelly Ann, 61
Hoffman, Lorraine, 61
Holiday Inn, Beirut, Lebanon, 142
Holmes–Ali heavyweight championship fight, Las Vegas, Nevada, 230
Holocaust-denial movement, 239–40
holocaust denier interview, 238–41
Holocaust Memorial Museum opening, Washington, D.C., 238
homeless man watches Scott nightly, 288
Höss, Rudolf, 239
hostage of TWA Flight 847 claimed by The Today Show producer, 256
Huberty, Etna, 41, 42, 43
Huberty, James Oliver, 40–41, 42–43
Humphrey, Hubert, 9 “Hurricane” (Dylan song), 262
I
Independent Network News (INN), 204
interviews
overview, 204–6, 254
Bush, George H. W., 283–84
Carter, 283
Ford, 282
prostitute (housewife from Kentucky), 255
“witness” was actually the perpetrator, 259
See also specific individuals
Intrepid Sea, Air and Space Museum, New York Harbor, 274–75
investigative reporting
overview, 174–75
Mocco’s alleged criminal conflict of interest, 260
New Jersey State Police and SCI story, 188–91
Scott arrested at “massage parlor” he’s investigating, 273
See also Greenwich murders; maritime industry; Reading Test Scandal
Iraq War
Al Faw Palace as military command headquarters, 158
Camp Anaconda, Balad, Iraq, 152–55
flying over Baghdad in a helicopter, 155–56, 157–58
IED roadside bombs, 156–57
Memorial Park, Baghdad, xii See also Christmas for our troops
Israel
media tour of, 128
Palestinians’ complaints about, 128
six-day war with Egypt, 127–28
War of Attrition with Egypt, 128–32
“I Want To Hold Your Hand” (Beatles song), 97
J
Jacobson, Max “Dr. Feelgood,” 235
Jeffries, Allen, 82
Jelicks, James, 188–91
Jews and Judaism
anti-Semitism in the United States, 238, 239–40, 243
anti-Zionist Jew working for PLO, 145
Hasidic Jews block out television camera, 201
Holocaust denier interview, 239–40
Holocaust survivor interviews, 240–41, 242–45
Jewish Defense League threats against Scott and his family, 149
kosher dining 125 yards from the front during the War of Attrition, 132
Rabin on peace, 149–50
Wiesel interview, 238–41, 242
John F. Kennedy Space Center, Cape
Canaveral, Florida, 71. See also space program
Judge, Father Mychal, 248–49
Junior High School 263, New York City, 181–82, 185
Justice Department, 177, 180
K
Kallstrom, James, 171–73
Kantara, Egypt, 129–32
Kavanau, Ted, 63, 64, 133–38
Keegan, Thomas, 45–46, 47–48, 49, 50–51, 52
Kelley, Carolyn, 263
Kemp, Eddie, 93
Kennedy, Caroline, 168
Kennedy, Ethel Shakel, 45
Kennedy, Jacqueline, 9, 266
Kennedy, John, Jr., 266–67
Kennedy, John F., 8
assassination of, 10, 85, 85–89
campaigning in West Virginia, 8–10
commitment to space race, 71
and Lewis, 210
Kennedy, Robert, 10
Khmer Rouge, 134, 135, 140
kidnapping case, 8-year-old boy, Long Island, New York, 53–57
Killing Fields, The (film), 140
Kimmel, Dave, 154, 156, 160
King, Coretta Scott, 112
King, Jack, 76
King, Martin Luther, Jr., 104
assassination and its aftermath, 108–11
biographical info, 104–5
funeral service, 111, 112
his own prediction of his death, 109–10
March Against Fear, 105, 107–8
Klein, Debbie, 48, 50, 51–52
Klein, James Michael “Jim,” 44
arrest in Florida and accusation of fleeing, 49
depression and suicide of, 49–50, 51
police intent to find guilty for Greenwich murders, 44, 45, 49–50, 51
visit to Kim hours before her murder, 46 See also Greenwich murders
Klein, Joanne “Kim,” 44, 44, 46–48
Koch, Edward Irving “Ed,” 215, 215–18
Koch, Howard, 94
Kreindler, James, 171
Kroc, Joan, 43
L
Labadi, Mahmoud, 145
Lampl, John, 274–75
Laning, Kent, 58–61
LaPrade, J. Wallace, 57
Lebanon, 141–42, 143–44, 146–50. See also Palestine Liberation Organization
Lema, Martha, 44, 48
Lennon, John, 97, 98, 100–102. See also
Beatles, the Leonard–Duran boxing match, New Orleans, Louisiana, 231
Levi, Edward, 177
Lewis, Danielle, 209–10
Lewis, Jerry “King of Comedy,” 207, 207–11
Liberace, 250, 250–52
Libya offers $10 million to families of Pan
Am 103 bombing, 170–71
L is for listening (CLASP interview technique), 205
Lon Non, 138 Looking for Mr. Goodbar (film), 194
Loren, Sophia, 223, 223–25
Lorraine Motel, Memphis, Tennessee, 108–9, 110
love
heart recipient’s love for God and donor, 33–34
Koch for New York City, 216, 218
Lewis did everything with love in his heart, 210–11
Monroe, Marilyn, need for, 23–24
Lutz, George and Kathy, 26, 29–30, 279–80
Lutz, Missy, 26
M
Mack the Knife (piano solo), 252
Mahoney, Donald “Don,” 285, 286–87
Mahoney, James, 285, 285, 286–87
Mahoney, John, 286, 287
Mahoney, Michael, 286
Mahoney family’s firefighter father in Scott’s photo, 285–87
man on the moon, 75–76
March Against Fear, Mississippi, 105, 107–8
maritime industry
Bentley solicited contributions for Nixon campaign, became Maritime Commission chair, 178
federal building and operating subsidies to shipping companies, 177–78
and Ford’s honorariums for speaking at luncheons, 179
Justice department involvement, 177, 180
and Nixon, 176, 177, 178
Scott’s investigative reporting on, 174–75, 180
shipping companies take advantage of Vessel Exchange Act, 175, 176–77
Vessel Exchange Act allows shipping companies to convert obsolete ships into cargo vessels, 175–76
Martians’ invasion in The War of the Worlds radio program, 90–95
Martin, Dean, 208–9
Mayor (Koch), 217
McCartney, Paul, 102–3. See also Beatles, the
McDonald’s massacre, San Ysidro, California, 39, 39–43
McLean, Malcolm, 176
media tour of Israel (1970), 128
Meir, Golda “Iron Lady,” 127, 128
memorials. See funerals and memorials
Memphis, Tennessee, MLK’s assassination and aftermath, 108–12
Mercury space program, 72–73
Meredith, James, 105
Metropolitan Achievement Test, New York City, 181–84. See also Reading Test Scandal
Midday Edition (television show), 234, 250–52
Miller, John, 192
career of, 192, 195–97, 198–99
childhood as news prodigy, 192, 193–96
Emerson College, Boston, 197–98
style at crime scenes, 197
Mississippi, racial hatred and violence in, 105–7
Mocco, Peter, 260
Monroe, Marilyn, 21, 21–24
Monskey, Mark, 197
Morales, Hector, 156–57
Moran, Paul, 91, 95
Morrison, Herb, 118
Mortensen, Norma Jean, 22. See also Monroe, Marilyn
Morton, Rogers, 178
Moxley, Martha, 45
Murphy, Mary, 117
Murphy, Melinda, 118
Murrow, Bruce, 97
Murrow, Edward R., 239
Muscular Dystrophy Association, 209
My Life in the Mafia (Teresa), 269
N
National Guard in Memphis, Tennessee, after
King assassination, 110–11
Nead, Donna, 106
New Jersey State Commission of
Investigation, 188–91
New Jersey State Police, 188–91
news. See television news Newsweek, on the Beatles, 99
New York City
airliners collide over, 81–84
Christmas blizzard of 2010, 201
homeless man watches Scott nightly, 288
Intrepid Sea, Air and Space Museum, New York Harbor, 274–75
Koch finds a woman a ride home during power outage, 217
and Liberace, 251
murder of Roseanne Quinn, 194
photo of a Bronx fire brings a family together, 285, 285–87
prostitutes in massage parlors, 273
See also Reading Test Scandal; September 11, 2001, terrorist attacks
Nicolini, Jill, 160
Night Before Christmas, The (Koch as reader), 217
Night (Wiesel), 245
9/11. See September 11, 2001, terrorist attacks
Nixon, Richard
and maritime industry contributions, 176, 177, 178
Scott’s assessments of, 281–82
and Skouras, 178
and Vietnam War, 138
Nobel Peace Prize, 210, 242–43
North Bergen, New Jersey, mayor involved in conflict of interest and conspiracy, 260
O
Obama, Barack, 243
Olsen, Barbara, 248
Olsen, Ted, 248
Onasis, Jacqueline “Jackie O,” 266–68
O’Neil, John, 119
opium den in Phnom Penh, Cambodia, 138–40
Ortega, Cesar Augusto, 54–57
Our Lady of Mt. Carmel Church, San Ysidro, California, 43
Outstanding Investigative Reporting Emmy Award, 180
P
Pagano, Clinton, 190–91
Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO)
Arafat, 141, 142, 144–46
children of, 142–43, 146–47, 148–50
refugee camps, schools, and orphanages in Lebanon, 142–43, 146–50
Palestinian complaints about Israelis, 128
Pan Am 103 bombing, 170–71
Pappas, Ike, 109
Parade magazine
on Arafat and the PLO, 145–46, 149, 455
on Brinkley, 230
Parsons, John, 47, 51
Pascarella, Mary, 27
passenger plane overshoots runway, Charleston, West Virginia, 257–58
Patterson, David, 168–69
Pecoraro, Father Ralph, 26
Perrine, Don, 92
Petraeus, David, 161
Petropolis, Steve, 29
Phipps, Armistead, 107–8
Phnom Penh, Cambodia, 134–35, 138–40
photo of a Bronx fire brings a family together, 285, 285–87
Pinsley, Stanley, 175, 178
P is for preparing (CLASP interview technique), 206
PIX11 (television news)
CNN runs Libya settlement story but doesn’t give credit to PIX 11, 171
death of bin Laden story affirms need for two sources, 167–68
Holocaust survivors and denier interviews, 238–41
Koch as guest, 215–16
Wiesel interview, 242–45 See also September 11, 2001, terrorist attacks
Playboy 100 sexiest women of the 20th century list, 229
Polemeni, Anthony J., 184–85
Portchester, New York, dance hall fire, 270–71
Portchester Daily Item (newspaper), 45
Potter, Charlie, 63–64
Pran, Dith, 140
prison reform, escaped inmates advocating for, 59, 63–64
Prongay, Kevin, 56–57
prostitute (housewife from Kentucky) agrees to an interview, 255
prostitutes in massage parlors, 273
Pugach, Burt, 3, 3–7
Pugach, Linda Riis, 5–7
Q
Quinn, Roseanne, 19
4
Quinone, Olamady, 159–60
Quito, Ecuador, invasion-from-Mars program, 95
R
Rabin, Yitzhak, 149–50
racial hatred and violence in Mississippi, 105–7
in Tennessee, 108–9, 110–11
Raimondi, Paul, 159
Rather, Dan, x, x–xi
Ravitz, John, 186–87
Ray, James Earl, 109, 110
RCA Space Center communications system for Viking spacecraft, New Jersey, 95
Reading Test Scandal
overview, 181
new school law applied in 1999 for similar scandal, 186–87
public interest in news reports, 182–83
rationale of principals and teachers, 183–84
Scott honored with pen used to sign new school testing law, Assembly Bill 5886-A, 181, 185–86
students coached for achievement tests with test questions, 181–82, 183
students retested until scores are good enough, 183
test publisher’s practices, 183
Reynolds, Debbie, 235
Riis/Pugach, Linda, 3, 3–7
Riley, Alberta, 27
Ringling Brothers Barnum and Bailey Circus at Madison Square Garden, with Marilyn Monroe, 22–23
Ring magazine, 230, 231–32
riots post-MLK, Jr.’s death, 110–11
Rodriguez, Joseph, 189
Rooney, Mickey, 205
S
Saudi Arabia’s loan to United States, 169
School of Happiness of Children orphanage,
Souk El-Gharb, Lebanon, 146–47
Schumer, Charles, 120
Scott, Marvin
alcoholic newsman saves his life, 82, 84
and Amityville haunted house, 25, 26–27, 29, 31
career, xiii–xiv
driving an armed convict around in New Jersey, 63–64
faking racial hatred in Mississippi, 105–6
Fisher’s soul kiss, 237
High School Press Association hosts Truman, 280
honored with pen used to sign new school testing law, 185–86
on interviews and interviewing, 204–6
and Journalist-in-Space program, 79–80
and Keegan, police detective for
Greenwich murders, 47
learning sensitivity to grief, 270–71
letter to his wife from Cambodia, 136
and Listerine vodka, 154
on March Against Fear, 107–8
media tour of Israel, 128
meeting ship worker inside a freighter at Brooklyn docks, 179
as newspaper delivery boy, xii
and opium den in Phnom Penh, 138–40
Outstanding Investigative Reporting Emmy Award, 180
personality, xiv
proving that Yankees didn’t have horns, 106
as radio pool producer at spacecraft launches, 72, 73–74
Rather on, x–xi
recognition in the streets of New York City, 288
remembering Kennedy assassination, 10
reporting on fire in building where he lived, 261
September 11, 2001, journey to and in newsroom, 115–20