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A couple more items about Ward Churchill

Charles at LGF is covering his possible buyout and offers these trenchant words:

Hey! Sounds like a great deal. Libel 9/11 victims, lie about your ancestry, forge artwork, teach anarchists how to commit terrorism, assault reporters—and end up with 10 million bucks and a quick easy retirement! Who knew the halls of academe could be so lucrative?

Commenters on his site have been having a field-day too... His art work -- The Denver CBS affiliate has a goods on that fraud and Churchill's attack on a reporter who tried to interview him:

Churchill made the serigraph in question in 1981 and called it "Winter Attack." He printed 150 copies and sold one of them to Duke Prentup for about $100. "I have enjoyed them ever since, immensely," Prentup said. "They're, obviously, up in my house." But last month came a stunning revelation. As Prentup flipped through a book of illustrations by renowned artist Thomas E. Mails, he found an artwork of striking similarity. "And I opened it up and, wham! There it was," Prentup said. "It's the exact same thing, only mirror image, virtually to every detail." The pen and ink sketch by Thomas Mails first appeared in his 1972 masterpiece, "The Mystic Warriors of the Plains." Compare it side-by-side to the serigraph by Churchill, created some 20 years later: the composition, the images, the placement are nearly identical. Intellectual property attorney Jim Hubbell said it's clearly no accident. "It's very obvious that the Churchill piece was taken directly from the Mails piece," Hubbell said. "There's just too many similarities between the two for it to have been coincidence."

Thomas Mails
Ward Churchill Jackson's Junction has a video of Churchill's assault Posted by DaveH at February 26, 2005 6:18 PM