Word: majczek
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...story of Joe Majczek [TIME, Feb. 16] and its subsequent denouement is for my book the winner as "the greatest American tragedy...
...profited and will profit from Majczek's utter humiliation? How much have we all contributed...
Enclosed find $1 for Joe Majczek. Let contributions of other citizens help bring back to Joe at least a partial faith in U.S. justice...
When the Illinois legislature, two years ago, voted $24,000 for a guy named Joe, everybody around Chicago felt pretty good. Joe's last name was Majczek. Not all Chicagoans knew how to pronounce it (it rhymes with paycheck), but they all knew his story. Joe had had a tough time. He had spent twelve years in prison for a murder which he had not committed. His mother had scrubbed floors to get the money to help clear him. When he was pardoned (TIME, Aug. 27, 1945), curly-haired, good-looking Joe Majczek became the hero of every Pole...
Northside is based on the true story (TIME, Aug. 27, 1945) of one Joe Majczek, a Chicagoan charged with the murder of a policeman in 1932 and sentenced to 99 years in Stateville Penitentiary. Majczek was cleared, almost 13 years later, through the efforts of his mother and of a reporter for the Chicago Times...