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I lived the entire trip the boys went on from the time of the murders up to the moment of their arrest in Las Vegas thousands of miles, what the boys called "the long ride." I went everywhere the boys had gone, all the hotel rooms, every single place in the book. Mexico, Acapulco, all of it. In the hotel in Miami Beach I stayed for three days until the manager realized why I was there and asked me to leave, which I was only too glad to do. Well, Dick could give me the names and addresses of any hotel or place along the route where they'd spent maybe just half a night. He told me when I got to Miami to take a taxi to such-and- such a place and get out on the boardwalk and it would be southwest of there, number 232, and opposite I'd find two umbrellas in the sand which advertised "Tan with Coppertone." That was how exact he was. He was the one who remembered the little card in the Mexico City hotel room in the corner of the mirror that reads "Your day ends at 2 pm." Truman Capote
I was under the impression that the book was going to be factual, and it was not; it was a fiction book. - Kansas Bureau of Investigations Special Agent and future Director, Harold Nye, 1997 book "Truman Capote" by George Plimpton
Timeline
| Y/M/D | Association | Description | Place | Locale | Food | Event | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1959/11/16 | Truman Capote | Author | Then one morning in November, 1959, while flicking through The New York Times, I encountered on a deep-inside page, this headline: Wealthy Farmer, 3 of Family Slain. | ||||
| 1959/12/00 | Nelle Harper Lee | Work | Truman Capote and research assistant Harper Lee travel to Holcomb, KS in the winter of 1960 to research 'In Cold Blood'. | Finney County | |||
| 1959/12/00 | Truman Capote | Work | Truman Capote and research assistant Harper Lee travel to Holcomb, KS in the winter of 1960 to research 'In Cold Blood'. | Finney County | |||
| 1959/12/05 | Alvin Dewey | Work | When news came to Mr Dewey at the county sheriff's office that Mr Hickock had been implicated - "Dewey said it wasn't them," lead prosecutor Duane West recalls. "Dewey was convinced it was somebody local who had a grudge against Herb Clutter." | Finney County Courthouse | Garden City | ||
| 1959/12/09 | Agent Nye, two KBI agents and a local sheriff's deputy investigate the Hickock farm. Finding only Dick's mother at home, they conduct a search, discover a shotgun and fire it outside to collect the empty casing for ballistic testing. | Olathe | Kansas | ||||
| 1966/01/17 | Truman Capote | Author | Capote's "In Cold Blood" is published by Random House. | ||||
| 1966/01/17 | Random House | Publisher | Capote's "In Cold Blood" is published by Random House. | ||||
| 1967/04/00 | "In Cold Blood" earns Truman Capote the 1966 Edgar Award for Best Fact Crime book. |
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| Particulars for In Cold Blood (book): | |||
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| Art Type | Book | a written or printed work consisting of pages glued or sewn together along one side and bound in covers. | |
| Criminal Justice | Correctional Facility | a building where guilty people are typically kept as punishment for a crime, prison | |
| Criminal Justice | Death Row | a prison block or section for prisoners sentenced to death | |
| Narrative Arts | Factual | concerned with what is actually true rather than interpretations of or reactions to it | |
| Narrative Arts | Fiction | prose literature, especially short stories and novels, that describes imaginary events and people | |
| Criminal Justice | Jail | building use to hold people accused of a crime, typically smaller than a prison | |
| True Crime | Murder | the unlawful premeditated killing of one human being by another | |
| Narrative Arts | Mystery | something not understood or beyond understanding | |
| Narrative Arts | Narrative | an account of connected events | |
| Narrative Arts | Prose | ordinary written language | |
| Area of Significance | True Crime | ||
| Narrative Arts | Verfabula | long form true story, written as a compelling narrative that reads like good fiction | |
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| Original Language: | English | ||
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