Liz Smith | 10/26/2009 12:00 am
Liz Smith: The Howard Hughes Hoax
The one I remember best is the hoax perpetuated by Clifford Irving, the man who told us he had the diaries of the reclusive Howard Hughes. He put one over on McGraw-Hill and Life magazine back in 1972. Irving went to prison for two years.
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The one that came to mind is that Saddam Hussein had stockpiles of mass destruction in Iraq. Which brings to mind the hoax or issue of is Osama bin Laden alive or dead. On September 24, 2009 a Jordanian student was arrested by the FBI for attempting to bomb a skyscraper in Dallas, TX. This skyscraper is in my neighborhood in downtown Dallas. Over the weekend 136 people were killed in a suicide bombing in Iraq. I pray that President Barak Hussein Obama continues to keeps vigilance on keeping terrorism off US soil and proves that he is a true leader and not a hoax.