The Reader’s archive is vast and varied, going back to 1971. Every day in Archive Dive, we’ll dig through and bring up some finds.
Pick’s story was remarkably measured considering the subject matter. Then again, he didn’t need to resort to any high-flown rhetoric to convince his readers that what Jones believed was evil. Jones did that quite well enough himself. Most of their interviews took place over coffee and pie at a diner near Jones’s home on the southwest side, and he did not mince words about his hatred of blacks, Jews, gays, and Asians. He didn’t censor himself after Pick revealed that he, himself, was Jewish.
