Wicked Words - Sarah Weinman: Quite a Scoundrel
Wicked Words - A True Crime Talk Show with Kate Winkler Dawson
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The Death of Edgar Smith
William F. Buckley learned of Edgar Smith through a newspaper article in which he is quoted as saying that the warden had brought a copy of national review to him on death row. He felt bad about it and so Buckley offered to send him a lifetime subscription, she says. By 1965 they are not only firm friends but they've written essentially thousands of pages of correspondence between one another,. She writes: "He values people who can write well"
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