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David Protess

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Pen Name: None

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Awards:
  • Best Book Award from Investigative Reporters and Editors for Promise of Justice and Gone in the Night.

Primary Audience(s): Adult readers

Email: d-protess@nwu.edu
David Protess on WorldCat : http://www.worldcat.org/search?q=david+protess


Selected Titles

A promise of justice /
ISBN: 0786862947 OCLC: 37792450

Hyperion, New York : ©1998.

Four African American men were tried and convicted in the 1978 murder of a white couple in suburban Chicago, but investigative journalists David Protess and Rob Warden believed in the men's innocence. After gathering new evidence, they were able to secure the release of the Ford Heights Four in 1996 and bring the true killers to trial.

Gone in the night :
ISBN: 044021243X OCLC: 30530491

Dell Pub., New York, N.Y. : [1994], ©1993.

The Dowaliby family's encounter with murder and the law.

 

 

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