Seventeen Million Words
Richard Poirier, 7 November 1985
The Inman Diary: A Public and Private Confession
edited by Daniel Aaron.
Harvard, 1661 pp., £35.95, March 1986,0 674 45445 6 Show More
edited by Daniel Aaron.
Harvard, 1661 pp., £35.95, March 1986,
“... On 5 December 1963, the day Jack Ruby shot Lee Harvey Oswald in Dallas, a man in Boston named Arthur Inman, having made several earlier attempts on his own life, managed to put a bullet through his head. A variety of chronic ailments and complaints had made him an invalid for nearly all of his 68 years, and except for brief excursions in his ancient chauffeur-driven Cadillac, he had since 1919 confined himself to an apartment building in downtown Boston named Garrison Hall ... ”
