Subject: bin/6114: Misattributed quote in fortune
To: None <gnats-bugs@gnats.netbsd.org>
From: None <jwise@unicast.com>
List: netbsd-bugs
Date: 09/07/1998 00:25:51
>Number: 6114
>Category: bin
>Synopsis: Misattributed quote in fortune
>Confidential: no
>Severity: non-critical
>Priority: low
>Responsible: bin-bug-people (Utility Bug People)
>State: open
>Class: sw-bug
>Submitter-Id: net
>Arrival-Date: Sun Sep 6 21:35:00 1998
>Last-Modified:
>Originator: Jim Wise
>Organization:
Jim Wise
jwise@unicast.com
>Release: NetBSD-1.3.2
>Environment:
System: NetBSD nevrast.unicast.com 1.3.2 NetBSD 1.3.2 (NEVRAST) #1: Fri Jul 10 09:43:10 PDT 1998 jwise@nevrast.unicast.com:/usr/src/sys/arch/i386/compile/NEVRAST i386
>Description:
the fortune data files contain the following quote:
"Avoid revolution or expect to get shot. Mother and I will grieve, but
we will gladly buy a dinner for the National Guardsman who shot you."
-- Dr. Paul Williamson, father of a Kent State student
This quote is not quite correctly attributed. Paul Williamson's son entered Tulane
University the fall after the Kent state shootings. Williamson wrote the letter
at that time, and published it in a newsletter he ran. It later received national
attention. (Source: "The Eloquence of Protest", HmCo, Boston, 1972, Harrison E. Salisbury, Ed.)
>How-To-Repeat:
$ fortune -m 'Kent State'
>Fix:
The following patch corrects the attribution (PATCH prepended to each line to fool GNATS)
PATCH 1849c1849,1850
PATCH < -- Dr. Paul Williamson, father of a Kent State student
PATCH --
PATCH > -- Dr. Paul Williamson, father of a student entering
PATCH > school in the fall after the Kent State shootings
>Audit-Trail:
>Unformatted: