What America Knows in 1981

There's no real climax to the story. It just sort of trails off later on, something like whene is few years after he dies, the police department sort of officially closes the case and says, the toole did it. That's all later. So again, what america knows in 19 81 is the missing boy, the crusading father and this horrible detail about the head. Right after 19 81, there's a huge closing of the ranks around this as an issue that the entire culture decides. This is the biggest thing, the detail, i cannot get over. And so one thing that comes up in a lot of t academic literature on this is how quickly this idea of