Harold Israel

Harold Israel
Harold Israel
Born	1903
Died	1964 (aged 60–61)

Harold Israel (1903–1964) was an itinerant former serviceman wrongly accused of murdering a priest in Bridgeport, Connecticut, in 1924. The charges against Israel were dismissed by the prosecutor, Homer Stille Cummings, who later became Attorney General of the United States.

The case, which gained national attention,^[1] became the basis for a 1947 film by Elia Kazan, Boomerang!.^[2] The Israel prosecution was praised in the Wickersham Commission report on law enforcement in the United States, which criticized police interrogation methods.^[3]^[4]

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^ "Movie of the Week: Boomerang!". Life Magazine. Time Life Inc. 1947-03-24. p. 92. Retrieved 2009-10-02.
^ McKenna, Marian C. (2002). Franklin Roosevelt and the great constitutional war. Fordham University Press. p. 9. ISBN 978-0-8232-2154-7.
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[Life-2] "Movie of the Week: Boomerang!". Life Magazine. Time Life Inc. 1947-03-24. p. 92. Retrieved 2009-10-02.

[War-3] McKenna, Marian C. (2002). Franklin Roosevelt and the great constitutional war. Fordham University Press. p. 9. ISBN 978-0-8232-2154-7.

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