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Friday, March 16, 2018

A source emailed me his life’s work. Then, he ended his life

https://www.cjr.org/first_person/usa-today-reporter-source.php

I got confirmation of Hicks’s departure at 4:36pm. A minute later, I started getting a flood of emails from P.S. Ruckman Jr., a political science professor who taught at Northern Illinois University and Rock Valley College. In 10 emails containing 65 spreadsheets, he was sending his entire data set of more than 30,000 presidential pardons and commutations.
The first email said simply, “Would want you to have this and use freely.”

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