Jim Smith appreciation thread.

Roscoe Arbuckle was an innocent person tried and convicted in the court of public opinion mostly because Hollywood was reviled as degenerate. After three trials he was acquitted, but died before he could revive his career. His is one of the names wrongly smeared on the pages of history. Like the supposed assassin of Louisiana politician Huey Long. Not. Long's own bodyguards shot him and killed the (then) unarmed man who was framed afterwards (by planting his own gun on him which was a different caliber than any of the bullets which struck Long). Ditto Tom Dooley. He was involved in a situation he shouldn't have been, resulting in a murder, but Dooley almost certainly took the rap for the guilty party. Someone wrote a song in the form of a confession by Dooley (who adamantly denied guilt to the last moment), 90 years later the Kingston Trio had a megahit with it, the Folk movement was born, and the rest was history, in which often the best remembered stories are those which did not happen.