Sir Ludovic Kennedy A Disgrace To Journalism and Writing.

Never let the facts get in the way of a good agenda, eh?

Based on the 1985 best seller "The Airman and the Carpenter" by  British author, Sir Ludovic Kennedy, the film unequivocally charges that Hauptmann was innocent of both kidnapping and murder and was railroaded into the electric chair.12 Sep 1996

The appalling Ludovic Kennedy along with sidekick, Eddowes, conned the

 British public intobelieving that the executed murderer Timothy Evans was wrongfully 

convicted in 1950. (It wasEddowes' own son who revealed the dishonesty of both Ludo and his 

own father in 'The Two Killers of Rillington Place'. Ludo's appalling

misrepresentations are still used by filmmakers to this day.

Furthermore,

However, one case he championed for a long time was that of James Hanratty, hanged in 1962 for a murder he said at the gallows he did not commit. In March 2001, a DNA sample extracted from Hanratty's exhumed body was matched by forensic experts to two samples from the crime scene, and his guilt was conclusively proved. The Irish Times. Dishonest again - or just blinkered?

“Ludo” Kennedy’s career championing the wrongly convicted began after 18-year-old Derek Bentley was hanged for his part in the murder of a policeman on a south London rooftop, though his friend Christopher Craig (16), who had admitted firing the shot but was too young to hang, was jailed. Bentley was guilty of the murder: joint enterprise. Kennedy wrong again.

Ludo the sexist campaigned for murderess Ruth Ellis not to be executed on the grounds that she was female! Kennedy wrong attitudes again.

Kennedy's attempts 'to prove the innocence'of Bruno Hauptman were equally manipulated.