# Who was the most wronged person in history **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [August 29, 2021, 4:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-was-the-most-wronged-person-in-history/949733 "2021-08-29T16:27:44Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 16\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![Two\_Many\_Cats2](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/779978/32.png) [@Two\_Many\_Cats2](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Two_Many_Cats2)\ **Post date:** [September 13, 2021, 4:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-was-the-most-wronged-person-in-history/949733/41 "2021-09-13T16:54:39Z")
Lady Jane Grey? ---
**Author:** ![PatrickLondon](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/patricklondon/32/4422_2.png) [@PatrickLondon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PatrickLondon)\ **Post date:** [September 14, 2021, 6:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-was-the-most-wronged-person-in-history/949733/42 "2021-09-14T06:54:03Z")
I don’t think so. By the rules of the time, she played and lost: the first time, Mary spared her life, but she got involved in Wyatt’s rebellion, which was what did for her. ---
**Author:** ![AK84](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/85e7bf/32.png) [@AK84](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AK84)\ **Post date:** [October 7, 2021, 3:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-was-the-most-wronged-person-in-history/949733/43 "2021-10-07T03:36:21Z")
Death at the hands of her political rivals, several of whom were pagan, in revenge for another killing. Carl Sagan was a great physicist but a terrible historian. I love Cosmos, but that monologue on the library of Alexandria was palpably bad. ---
**Author:** ![Snarky\_Kong](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a183cd/32.png) [@Snarky\_Kong](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Snarky_Kong)\ **Post date:** [October 7, 2021, 3:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-was-the-most-wronged-person-in-history/949733/44 "2021-10-07T03:49:07Z")
The most wronged person ever was made fun of on the internet for a week? ---
**Author:** ![hajario](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hajario/32/171_2.png) [@hajario](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/hajario)\ **Post date:** [October 7, 2021, 4:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-was-the-most-wronged-person-in-history/949733/45 "2021-10-07T04:52:13Z")
Totally, how could anyone possibly respond to this thread with a kid who was in a viral video? That was one dim witted post. I was curious and checked and she is still in the music business and has a YouTube channel with 1.5 million subscribers ---
**Author:** ![JohnT](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnt/32/15048_2.png) [@JohnT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JohnT)\ **Post date:** [October 7, 2021, 5:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-was-the-most-wronged-person-in-history/949733/46 "2021-10-07T05:45:32Z")
This list literally contains a woman who owned a cow and a young man who caught a baseball, hell, it even contains _Ethel Rosenberg_, for God’s sake. Yet the young lady who was psychologically traumatized merely because she made a music video somehow doesn’t make the cut? 🙄 Nah, I disagree. Tens of millions of us piled on to that poor child _knowing she didn’t destroy a city or ruin a Cubs game or help steal nuclear secrets for the Soviets_ and we should all be ashamed for doing so. We wronged her and she deserved what she got even less than the baseball kid. Who didn’t deserve what he got either. As I’ve said many times: The internet is the greatest vector of mental disorders ever invented by the hand of man. And, as you admit, it was used to traumatize a 13yo girl, even if it was “for just a week”. Rebecca deserves to be on this list if those other three do. ---
**Author:** ![Jeff\_Lichtman](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jeff_lichtman/32/1531_2.png) [@Jeff\_Lichtman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jeff_Lichtman)\ **Post date:** [October 7, 2021, 6:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-was-the-most-wronged-person-in-history/949733/47 "2021-10-07T06:37:41Z")
How about the defendants in the [McMartin Pre-school case](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/McMartin_preschool_trial)? Virginia McMartin, Ray Buckey, and several others were accused of sexually abusing children in their care at the height of the moral panic over satanic ritual abuse. Many of the accusations were ludicrous, and it was clear that the children had been manipulated into telling a bunch of lies, but that didn’t prevent the staff at that school from being prosecuted. Most of the public believed the charges, and the defendants lives ended up in ruins, although there were acquittals on most of the charges and the juries couldn’t reach decisions on several of them. Ray Buckey spent five years in jail for a crime he didn’t commit. In fact, no crime had been committed at all. To this day there are people who believe the staff of McMartin Pre-school were a bunch of child rapists. ---
**Author:** ![Jackmannii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jackmannii/32/311_2.png) [@Jackmannii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jackmannii)\ **Post date:** [October 7, 2021, 2:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-was-the-most-wronged-person-in-history/949733/48 "2021-10-07T14:47:23Z")
The Tucson Four would at least make the list of most wronged people in Arizona history. > **[9 Buddhists murdered in Temple 25 years ago](https://www.abc15.com/news/crime/old-time-crime-two-teenagers-held-responsible-for-mass-murder-that-caused-international-stir)** > > Ninemembersof a West ValleyBuddhistTemple are arranged in a circle as they are shot execution style by teenagers who robbed then of $2,600 in cash and valuables. ---
**Author:** ![The\_Librarian](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/the_librarian/32/402_2.png) [@The\_Librarian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Librarian)\ **Post date:** [October 7, 2021, 6:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-was-the-most-wronged-person-in-history/949733/49 "2021-10-07T18:08:46Z")
Edward Snowden? ---
**Author:** ![Miller](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/miller/32/481_2.png) [@Miller](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Miller)\ **Post date:** [October 7, 2021, 8:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-was-the-most-wronged-person-in-history/949733/50 "2021-10-07T20:57:37Z")
> [@AK84](#): > > Death at the hands of her political rivals, several of whom were pagan, in revenge for another killing. Carl Sagan was a great physicist but a terrible historian. I read this as “in revenge for killing Carl Sagan.” ---
**Author:** ![BobLibDem](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/boblibdem/32/3149_2.png) [@BobLibDem](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BobLibDem)\ **Post date:** [October 7, 2021, 10:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-was-the-most-wronged-person-in-history/949733/51 "2021-10-07T22:48:01Z")
I’d nominate Anne Boleyn and Job. I don’t believe Anne was unfaithful to Henry and she just got beheaded because in those days they thought baby gender was somehow controlled by the woman. Job, while perhaps not historical (who really knows?) is pretty much the definition of what the OP seeks. ---
**Author:** ![thorny\_locust](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/thorny_locust/32/431_2.png) [@thorny\_locust](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/thorny_locust)\ **Post date:** [October 8, 2021, 2:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-was-the-most-wronged-person-in-history/949733/52 "2021-10-08T02:26:59Z")
> [@BobLibDem](#): > > Job, while perhaps not historical (who really knows?) is pretty much the definition of what the OP seeks. I’d nominate Job’s family well before I’d nominate Job. They wind up nastily dead, purely in order to make a point to somebody else. Of course, so have a lot of other people throughout history. Generally their names don’t even get recorded. ---
**Author:** ![AK84](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/85e7bf/32.png) [@AK84](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AK84)\ **Post date:** [October 8, 2021, 9:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-was-the-most-wronged-person-in-history/949733/53 "2021-10-08T09:28:46Z")
> [@BobLibDem](#): > > I’d nominate Anne Boleyn and Job. I don’t believe Anne was unfaithful to Henry and she just got beheaded because in those days they thought baby gender was somehow controlled by the woman. She got beheaded since political winds shifted. ---
**Author:** ![Loach](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/loach/32/350_2.png) [@Loach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Loach)\ **Post date:** [October 11, 2021, 1:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-was-the-most-wronged-person-in-history/949733/54 "2021-10-11T01:55:43Z")
I have it on good authority (him) that Donald Trump is the most wronged person in history. ---
**Author:** ![Steve\_MB](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/steve_mb/32/5339_2.png) [@Steve\_MB](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Steve_MB)\ **Post date:** [October 13, 2021, 11:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-was-the-most-wronged-person-in-history/949733/55 "2021-10-13T11:41:36Z")
> [@thorny\_locust](#): > > I’d nominate Job’s family well before I’d nominate Job. They wind up nastily dead, purely in order to make a point to somebody else. Fridging has a long literary pedigree, it seems. ---
**Author:** ![Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/7cd45c/32.png) [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elendil_s_Heir)\ **Post date:** [November 12, 2021, 3:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-was-the-most-wronged-person-in-history/949733/56 "2021-11-12T15:14:41Z")
> [@Machine\_Elf](#): > > > [@Newtosite](#): > > > > The first person I thought of was Richard Jewell. > > [Richard Jewell - Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Jewell) > > I thought of him too; he was an actual hero who really got screwed for his heroic work. In the 2020 crime drama _Manhunt: Deadly Games_, Jewell is badly beaten outside a grocery store by an angry man who blames him for the Centennial Olympic Park bombing. Three FBI agents who’ve been tailing Jewell just stand by and stare, doing nothing either to intervene or to arrest the man who beat him up. Did that really happen? The Wiki article doesn’t mention it. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-was-the-most-wronged-person-in-history/949733.md?page=2)