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Article: Crocodile tears: September 11 Hawaii Hoax; The Boston Globe's Marilyn Garateix found clues that a grieving father's story might be bogus. (FREE PRESS).(Brief Article)
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- American Journalism Review
- Article date:
- November 1, 2001
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In Hawaii, a grieving father spoke to the press. He fondly remembered his son, Jude Larson, a medical student, and his daughter-in-law, Natalie, a fashion model--passengers, he said, on one of the two airplanes that crashed into New York's World Trade Center on September 11. Curtis Larson urged U.S. leaders not to take revenge on their killers.
"It's not going to bring my son back," Larson, a well-known local artist, told Honolulu's Star-Bulletin on September 13. "Where does it all stop?"
In Larson's case, it never really started. No one in Curtis Larson's family died in the terrorist attacks on New York and Washington, D.C. Larson told the ...