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"Along with other friends of Roscoe's, I offered to go to San Francisco to testify...[Arbuckle's attorney] Mr. Dominguez
talked us out of going to the trial. He said that there was bitter feeling in San Francisco even against him for taking a
case that local people felt should have gone to one of their own lawyers. 'They would resent you fellows even more,' he said,
'and discount your evidence, feeling you were merely Arbuckle's front men.'"
Buster Keaton (from his autobiography, "My Wonderful World of Slapstick," Doubleday, 1960)
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"All of us who knew him felt that he was a victim of circumstances and not guilty of a crime. But the unfortunate affair
occurred at a time when churches, women's clubs, and reformers already had blood in their eyes over Hollywood's alleged sinfulness
and the moral laxness depicted in some films. A hundred censorship bills had been introduced in thirty-seven states that year."
Jesse Lasky (from his autobiography, "I Blow My Own Horn," Doubleday, 1957)
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"The whole thing was a frame-up, arranged by some of the corrupt local newspaper boys. Arbuckle was good copy, so they
set him up for a fall."
Dashiell Hammett (from "Seven Pages," manuscript, Humanities Research Center, University of Texas at Austin)
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