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Matches in DBpedia 2014 for { ?s ?p The controversy over Fatal Vision, journalist and author Joe McGinniss's best-selling 1983 true crime book, is a decades-long dispute involving as well several other published works.In 1970, at their home on Fort Bragg, North Carolina, Green Beret Captain Jeffrey MacDonald, M.D., was injured, and his pregnant wife and two young daughters were murdered. MacDonald told Army investigators that they had been attacked by multiple assailants; the details were reminiscent of the sensational Tate-LaBianca murders of the preceding year. After several months of investigation, Army lawyers charged McDonald himself with the three murders, leading to a three-months-plus adversarial hearing that recommended he not be prosecuted. In 1971, his father-in-law became progressively suspicious of McDonald and sought formal reopening of the case; in 1974, a Federal judge acted on a citizen's criminal complaint by him and others, by putting the case before a grand jury. McDonald was indicted, and after two rounds of appeals to Appeal and Supreme Courts, went to trial in 1979.Between the Supreme Court's denial of review and the trial date, McDonald arranged with McGinniss to interview him, attend the trial, and write a book about the case.McDonald was sentenced to three consecutive life terms before the year was out, and has raised further appeals, one of which set him free on bail for about 15 months before yet another reversal by the Supreme Court in 1982.In the spring of 1983, McGinniss published Fatal Vision, saying that he had become convinced of McDonald's guilt early in his research, and presenting detailed arguments for guilt. The book sold well, and gave rise the next year to an NBC television miniseries under the same name.In 1984 McDonald sued the author for breach of contract, in having pretended to believe in his subject's innocence—even after having concluded the opposite—out of a desire that McDonald continue to facilitate writing of the book. That civil case went to trial in 1987, ending in a mistrial, and was settled out of court, with the author reported to have paid McDonald $325,000.In 1990, The New Yorker writer Janet Malcolm published a widely read article, "The Journalist and the Murderer", with the thesis that journalism inevitably conflicts with morality as it is usually conceived; she considered Fatal Vision as the specific case leading her to this conclusion, and said that McGinniss committed a "morally indefensible" act in pretending that he believed MacDonald was innocent, even after he became convinced of his guilt.In 1995, Jerry Allen Potter and Fred Bost published Fatal Justice: Reinvestigating the MacDonald Murders, attacking the murder jury's conclusions.In 2012, McGinniss published Final Vision: The Last Word on Jeffrey MacDonald, rebutting MacDonald's case in his multiple post-1983 appeals.. }

• Fatal_Vision_controversy abstract "The controversy over Fatal Vision, journalist and author Joe McGinniss's best-selling 1983 true crime book, is a decades-long dispute involving as well several other published works.In 1970, at their home on Fort Bragg, North Carolina, Green Beret Captain Jeffrey MacDonald, M.D., was injured, and his pregnant wife and two young daughters were murdered. MacDonald told Army investigators that they had been attacked by multiple assailants; the details were reminiscent of the sensational Tate-LaBianca murders of the preceding year. After several months of investigation, Army lawyers charged McDonald himself with the three murders, leading to a three-months-plus adversarial hearing that recommended he not be prosecuted. In 1971, his father-in-law became progressively suspicious of McDonald and sought formal reopening of the case; in 1974, a Federal judge acted on a citizen's criminal complaint by him and others, by putting the case before a grand jury. McDonald was indicted, and after two rounds of appeals to Appeal and Supreme Courts, went to trial in 1979.Between the Supreme Court's denial of review and the trial date, McDonald arranged with McGinniss to interview him, attend the trial, and write a book about the case.McDonald was sentenced to three consecutive life terms before the year was out, and has raised further appeals, one of which set him free on bail for about 15 months before yet another reversal by the Supreme Court in 1982.In the spring of 1983, McGinniss published Fatal Vision, saying that he had become convinced of McDonald's guilt early in his research, and presenting detailed arguments for guilt. The book sold well, and gave rise the next year to an NBC television miniseries under the same name.In 1984 McDonald sued the author for breach of contract, in having pretended to believe in his subject's innocence—even after having concluded the opposite—out of a desire that McDonald continue to facilitate writing of the book. That civil case went to trial in 1987, ending in a mistrial, and was settled out of court, with the author reported to have paid McDonald $325,000.In 1990, The New Yorker writer Janet Malcolm published a widely read article, "The Journalist and the Murderer", with the thesis that journalism inevitably conflicts with morality as it is usually conceived; she considered Fatal Vision as the specific case leading her to this conclusion, and said that McGinniss committed a "morally indefensible" act in pretending that he believed MacDonald was innocent, even after he became convinced of his guilt.In 1995, Jerry Allen Potter and Fred Bost published Fatal Justice: Reinvestigating the MacDonald Murders, attacking the murder jury's conclusions.In 2012, McGinniss published Final Vision: The Last Word on Jeffrey MacDonald, rebutting MacDonald's case in his multiple post-1983 appeals.".