More On the Inquest
As noted below, my publisher recently put out a facsimile of the inquest transcript that is much cleaner and easier to read than the copy of the transcript at the Tech archives. One of the things that recently occurred to me is that the copy at Tech has some writing on it that is NOT on mine — indicating that someone wrote on the copy after the proceedings were over. It might seem like a minor point but someone took a green ball point pen (ball points were not common in the US before 1945) and scribbled on the index to the transcript next to the names of the people who signed the document (for example, it says :”He signed: Battista Brusso”next to Brusso’s name on the first page of the index.) Some researchers have included that language in their transcriptions of the inquest — when they were clearly added later. I suspect they were made in the 1970s, but that’s just a hunch on my part. It’s also a good reason to look at the best copy of the original you can find, if you want to study this event.
Steve
