Word: leonski
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Dates: during 1942-1942
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...local telephone call would have established 1) that I am not a reporter but a photographer; 2) that I did not interview Mrs. Leonski and have never seen either her or any member ot the entire Leonski family...
TIME has a widespread reputation for accuracy and fairness. I dissent. In TIME'S report [July 27] on the Leonski case you represent that "To wheedle a picture for the News . . . Reporter Al Willard told Mrs. Leonski that her son had just been cited for bravery." [Actually he had been arrested for strangling three Australian women...
...jealous of his reputation. Your false report was a vicious piece of writing, based, obviously, on the unconfirmed word of somebody who did not know what he was talking about. You say in your article "there was no excuse for the manner in which the news of Leonski's arrest was broken to his aged Polish-born mother." I say there is no excuse for the manner in which you smear one in your own craft...
...Before publishing its story, TIME interviewed Mrs. Leonski and her daughter Helen. They said that the News's Al Willard had lied to them about Private Leonski's true status, that as proof, they had a receipt for their photograph of the young soldier, which the News had published, and that the receipt bore Willard's name and address. TIME telephoned the News and was told that Willard was a reporter there. So TIME labeled Willard as the misinformer, but the Leonskis and TIME were wrong...
Actually another News Reporter, not Willard, signed Photographer Willard's name to the receipt after securing the picture of Private Leonski...