The Affidavit of Isaac Woodard

[Store Hadji]

Here's the other great triumph/scandal of Welles' radio career.

Apparently the news had hit some newspapers a few weeks previously, but it seems to have been Welles who forced it into the national discourse, resulting in the criminal prosecution of Officer X (it must be noted that Chief Shull was aquitted by the jury.)

Since Woodard's account listed the incident as happening in the town of Aiken, so did Welles. That announcement would lead to Welles being sued, hung in effigy, having the film Tomorrow Is Forever (according to Callow) or The Stranger (according to Rosenbaum) banned in Aiken, ABC cancelling his show (Orson Welles Commentaries,) and no network in the United States ever offering him another.

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