{"id":224,"date":"2019-09-15T13:59:43","date_gmt":"2019-09-15T18:59:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/exhibitions.lib.udel.edu\/from-thought-into-print\/?page_id=224"},"modified":"2019-09-16T16:45:10","modified_gmt":"2019-09-16T21:45:10","slug":"11-fact-checking","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/exhibitions.lib.udel.edu\/from-thought-into-print\/exhibition\/1-conceptualization\/2-research\/3-dialog\/4-inspiration\/5-rewriting\/2-new-ending\/7-alterations\/8-original-version\/9-re-issue\/10-style\/11-fact-checking\/","title":{"rendered":"11 &#8211; Fact Checking"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>Truman Capote (1924-1984), author<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Sandy Campbell (b. 1922), editor<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Truman\nCapote spent six years researching the 1959 murders of the Clutter family in\nHolcomb, Kansas,\nfirst publishing his account in a four-part series in <em>The New Yorker<\/em>, September\u2013October, 1965.\nWith the 1966 publication of <em>In Cold Blood<\/em>,\nCapote popularized a new style of writing, the non-fiction novel. His crime\nstory has been adapted twice as movies.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Sandy\nCampbell was the fact-checker for the <em>New\nYorker<\/em> serialization, accompanying Capote to Kansas and corresponding from\nNew York to corroborate information. Included are letters and\ncards from Marie Dewey, wife of Alvin Dewey of Garden City, the Kansas Bureau\nof Investigation special agent in charge of the Clutter murder case. Campbell\u2019s\neditorial files, preserved in the Robert A. Wilson papers, include correspondence\nwith other Kansans and agencies related to the case, a complete set of galley proofs for the serialization\nof <em>In Cold Blood<\/em>, and\nthe rough copies of each issue, which were printed, bound, and run for a final\ncheck before public release.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>All items from the Robert A. Wilson papers<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ol class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>Fact-checking correspondence with Sandy Campbell, including several letters from Marie Dewey, 1965<\/li><li>\u201cIn Cold Blood. I \u2013 The Last to See Them Alive,\u201d <strong>galleys<\/strong> for the <em>New Yorker<\/em>, July 8, 1963<\/li><li>\u201cIn Cold Blood. II \u2013 Persons Unknown,\u201d <strong>galleys<\/strong> for the <em>New Yorker<\/em>, September 30, 1963. Showing galleys 22-23 with mention of the Dewey family: Al, Marie, Paul and Alvin Jr.<\/li><li><em>The New Yorker<\/em>. <strong>Rough copy<\/strong>, September 25, 1965<\/li><li><em>The New Yorker<\/em>. <strong>Rough copy<\/strong>, October 2, 1965<\/li><li>Mailing envelope for rough copies, addressed to Sandy Campbell, <em>The New Yorker<\/em>, [1965]<\/li><li>Capote, Truman. <em>In Cold Blood<\/em>. <strong>Uncorrected advance proofs<\/strong>. New York: Random House, 1965<\/li><li>Columbia Pictures. <strong>Lobby card<\/strong> for press package for Truman Capote\u2019s <em>In Cold Blood<\/em>, directed by Richard Brooks, 1967<\/li><\/ol>\n\n\n\n<p> <em>[UD_EXHIBITION_ITEM]<\/em> <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Truman Capote (1924-1984), author Sandy Campbell (b. 1922), editor Truman Capote spent six years researching the 1959 murders of the Clutter family in Holcomb, Kansas, first publishing his account in a four-part series in The New Yorker, September\u2013October, 1965. With the 1966 publication of In Cold Blood, Capote popularized a new style of writing, the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"parent":221,"menu_order":11,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"page-exhibition.php","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-224","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/exhibitions.lib.udel.edu\/from-thought-into-print\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/224"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/exhibitions.lib.udel.edu\/from-thought-into-print\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/exhibitions.lib.udel.edu\/from-thought-into-print\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/exhibitions.lib.udel.edu\/from-thought-into-print\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/exhibitions.lib.udel.edu\/from-thought-into-print\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=224"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/exhibitions.lib.udel.edu\/from-thought-into-print\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/224\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":226,"href":"https:\/\/exhibitions.lib.udel.edu\/from-thought-into-print\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/224\/revisions\/226"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/exhibitions.lib.udel.edu\/from-thought-into-print\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/221"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/exhibitions.lib.udel.edu\/from-thought-into-print\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=224"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}