The Wily Filipino

Correction.

Here's a correction to an old post.

The following comment is full of crap:

"Compare this, for instance, with child murderer Carol Jo Pivar's portrait, which looks like a Cindy Sherman "film still" -- she looks like she just stepped out of some noir film."

My mother, Carol Jo Pivar, the woman in the "portrait" was not and is NOT a "child murderer"!!

As a woman married to a man suffering what was then known as "shell shock" [now called "post-traumatic stress syndrome"], and that marriage basically decaying rapidly, she lashed out and struck my sister Laurie, a baby at the time causing problems for Laurie that have been sustained to this day. However, Laurie is alive and well. My mother is not, having died at the ripe old age of 38 years in 1972 from the big "C". Fortunately the whole episode was passed on, in detail to my oldest sister and she passed it on to me some years back. I was very shocked to see the posting on your site with the offensive term as you printed it. I will however admit that this was probably lifted from newspapers of the time, as the whole "incident" got a lot of publicity. The photo was probably taken as Mom was being taken to jail or Sybil Brand (where she roomed with the 1st woman in California to be executed!!). The situation aside, it does reflect the feel of a noir photo shoot.
...just wanted to set things straight!

Bruce W. Pivar

My apologies -- as a student of history I should have known better than to extrapolate (totally erroneously!) from the description. It was extremely stupid of me.

I am truly, genuinely sorry for causing offense; the original post has now been edited and the offending phrase deleted.

Posted by the wily filipino at November 5, 2003 08:12 AM