Background
Skolnick, Sherman Herbert was born on July 13, 1930 in Chicago, Illinois, United States. Son of Max and Pauline (Lubelsky) Skolnick.
reformer researcher media host/producer
Skolnick, Sherman Herbert was born on July 13, 1930 in Chicago, Illinois, United States. Son of Max and Pauline (Lubelsky) Skolnick.
Graduate, DePaul University. Student, John Marshall School Law.
Born in Chicago in 1930, at the age of six, Skolnick was paralyzed by polio, and he used a wheelchair for the rest of his life. Skolnik"s father was from Russia. He used the local press to distribute his reports, later establishing a telephone hotline–"Hotline News", a public-access television show on cable television, and a web site.
Skolnick"s investigations put Otto Kerner Junior. in prison for three years.
And lead to the resignation of two Illinois Supreme Court justices, Roy J. Solfisburg, Junior. and Ray Klingbiel, who, as Skolnick reported, had accepted bribes of stock from a defendant in a case on which they ruled. The scandal catapulted John Paul Stevens, special counsel to an investigating commission, to fame as a justice on the United States. Supreme Court.
In 2001, the story became the subject of a book, Illinois Justice, by Kenneth A. Manaster. Towards the end of his life, Skolnick served as co-host with Lenny Bloom for the Canadian radio show Cloak & Dagger.
The show was taken off the airwaves, despite very high market ratings, following a controversial interview with former German Defense Minister Andreas von Bülow, in which Von Bulow claimed that the terrorist September 11, 2001 attacks were an inside job.
Cloak & Dagger then became an Internet podcast, which subsequently relocated to a German web server due to relentless hacking attacks. At the end of every radio broadcast, Skolnick would sign off with the following statement: "To Hell with the Queen of England!"
His material is generally un-copyrighted. Other major collaborators with Skolnick and Bloom include Webster Tarpley, Stew Webb, Tom Heneghan, Eric Jon Phelps, and Ralph Schoenman.
Skolnick died of a heart attack on May 21, 2006.
Son of.