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A sampling of
newspaper articles from the Kansas City Star and the Kansas
City Times, printed in the immediate aftermath of the fire and
explosions, can be accessed from this website's news
articles page. These provide a snap shot view of the first
24 to 48 hours. Many years will pass before the case is "solved".
However, J.J.
Maloney's investigative
articles about the Kansas City Firefighters Case provides a
very comprehensive background understanding of the complexities
involved in the eventual legal case. Maloney clearly articulates his
investigative findings, and shows that a
quest for closure in the case far outweighed any search for truth.
In the end, five innocent people were deemed expendable so that a
case could be put to rest.
Maloney's two-part
stories, which won the Missouri Bar Association's annual
"Excellence in Legal Journalism" award, are reprinted on
the following pages:
Firefighters
Case: Part I
Railroaded,
Firefighters Case: Part II |
