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Kenneth Roberts was a reporter in Rhode Island.

Frank J. Williams: Accused of Copying
Historians in the News

Mark Arsenault, in the Providence Journal (April 6, 2004):

Supreme Court Chief Justice Frank J. Williams acknowledged last week that he"inadvertently" used the opening paragraphs of a 1957 Journal magazine story in an article he wrote on Lincoln in 1993.
The similarities between the two articles became apparent during the Journal's research into the history of the newspaper for an upcoming special on its 175th anniversary. Williams provided, at a reporter's request, information about Lincoln's 1860 visits to Rhode Island, and offered a 1993 article he had written about those visits. That article appeared in"Rhode Island History," a publication of the Rhode Island Historical Society.
Further research in The Journal's archives turned up a 1957 article about Lincoln's visits published in The Rhode Islander, the former Providence Sunday Journal magazine. It had been written by Kenneth B. Roberts, a Journal employee from 1926 to 1966. He died in 1971, according to personnel and pension records on file at the paper.

 

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