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Politics : The Palestinian Hoax -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Thomas M. who wrote (914)	7/8/2002 4:37:04 PM
From: Raymond Duray	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 3467

Hi Thomas, Truth and fiction were fungible in Twain's writing. Notoriously, when he was a reporter for the paper in Virginia City, NV, he ran a series of shocking stories about the heinous murder of a family of Anglo settlers in the Sierra foothills. It was a sensation in Virginia City, which was about 50 miles from where the "murders" occurred. The readership of newspaper swelled and the story was amplified on for over a month. A real moneymaker for the paper It all ended briefly thereafter when a rival newspaper determined that Twain had fabricated the entire incident out of nothing more than his fertile imagination. -Ray