ISTR that Henry Ford was behind the first American translation and publication of The Protocols of the Elders of Zion. Is that what you’re referring to?
Still not it, but close again. (I’m assuming that was a whoosh).
I think I may have worded the question wrongly; it wasn’t really a single book, but a series of booklets, but the first one is the only one widely circulated. Modern publishers tend to take all four booklets and publish them as a single volume, though.
Also, your first answer was really close - parts of the booklets are plagiarized/“translated” from Protocols.
AIUI Henry Ford had a number of views that were, shall we say, a little authoritarian. Until the very late 30s there was a lot of admiration for how Hitler had revitalized the German economy, and people, within in certain circles. It’s not impossible for me to believe, esp. given Ford’s anti-semetic tendencies, that he was one of those fans.
For that matter, one is free to wonder whether Ford was one of those business magnates implicated in the plot that Smedley Butler shot out of the water, but weren’t prosecuted because they were either too important, or had kept their support suitably behind the scenes.
He was the first person to successfully use an insanity defense while on trial for murder.
Daniel Sykes, later Corps commander in the Union Army
When arrested, he was wearing a T-shirt with a picture of Lincoln, crosshairs over the President’s forehead and the words, “Sic semper tyrannus.”
Lee Harvey Oswald ??
Jeffrey Dahmer committed his cannibalistic murders in what city?
Milwaukee, WI- although didn’t some murders in Chicago.
When John Dillinger was shot and killed by the FBI, what morbid souvenirs did passersby collect?
His movie ticket for the show at the Biograph that day??
She was the first woman ever executed by the U.S. Government.
Mary Suerat
