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Nancy Grace to Be at Crimecon May 4-6, pictured here with Journalist Art Harris

By Art Harris, The Bald Truth
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ATLANTA–After covering crime and justice for three decades, you think you’ve seen and heard it all.

Then a wealthy Republican labor lawyer lawyers up with the brainiest criminal defense attorneys money can buy, veterans Bruce Harvey and Donald F. Samuel.

In court, both argue “Tex,” a nickname he chose, didn’t mean to kill his wife when the .38 “discharged” while he was riding with it on his lap in the backseat; it was just a tragic accident, plain and simple. How could it be anything but?
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By Art Harris, The Bald Truth, (c) artharris 2018 all right reserved

I covered her visit to historic Bennett College on Mother’s Day, 1989 and slightly edited what I wrote back then for The Washington Post. Out of 2,600 requests for her to speak at college graduations, she’d picked the all-black women’s school in North Carolina.

It was a warm Spring day, and what struck me about First Lady Barbara Bush was the warmth she radiated and how students pressed forward to meet her, later telling me how smart, special and proud she’d made them feel. Read the rest of this entry »

New O.J. “Confession” to Murder?

By Art Harris, The Bald Truth
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What still shocks me about the O.J. Simpson case, after covering it for the last 24 years–the double murder, the trial, acquittal, civil conviction, the racial divide –is this: people keep asking me, “Is he guilty?”

Finally, an OJ confession, in a 2006 TV interview with Judith Regan, embargoed until it aired on FOX News. OJ Simpson “hypothetically” speaking. Read the rest of this entry »

By Art Harris, The Bald Truth
© 2017, artharris.com, all rights reserved

ATLANTA–It was a bit daunting: an invitation by the FBI field office here to be its keynote speaker for the U.S. Marine Corps’ annual birthday. Their request–share personal war stories from riding shotgun with a camera and a laptop in the Iraq invasion as a former CNN journalist embedded with the U.S. Marines 2nd LAR.

What was it like to chronicle life and death, hear about the hopes, dreams and fears, witness courage and victory courtesy of young guns who put lives on the line for each other? What was it like to play confidant after a Dear John letter, then watch them light up when offered a SAT phone to call home from the desert? Read the rest of this entry »