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From: Jasper
Date: 8/11/03
Time: 10:44:31 AM
Remote Name: 68.73.56.249
Charlie,
The oddities in Harry Scull’s photos are why few people took them seriously and why the Enquirer paid Scull’s agent Rob McElroy only 15, 000 dollars (Scull got 2, 500 dollars). There were no such oddities in the E.J. Flammer photos per se. The odd thing about them was when and how they came to the attention of the plaintiffs in the civil case.
I think that Scull offered his photos to the prosecution late in the criminal case but I can’t locate the source. I do know that they appeared in the National Enquirer in the spring of 1996, long after the criminal case ended. If he had tried to sell them before the prosecution had a chance to see them, their value would have been greatly diminished. They had limited value to begin with because they weren’t that good.
On December 28, 1997 Denny Lynch, the publicity director of the Buffalo Bills got his attorney to call the plaintiffs attorney John Kelly to tell him about Flammer’s photos (American Tragedy, page 948). Lynch claimed he used them in a 1993 Buffalo Bills newsletter. He had copies of the newsletter, but nobody else ever came forward with a copy of theirs. Lynch meets with Kelly and told him that Flammer was going to sell his photos. The implication is that he wanted the plaintiffs to have them before Flammer sold his. But again, the value of the photos depended on what happened to them in court.
I can’t overemphasize the fact that Flammer and Scull were friends. Few people in the known universe were unaware of how important those photographs were in the first months of 1995. Yet, Shull’s photos didn’t become public until the spring of ’86 and Flammer claimed that he “forgot” abut his until the last month of 1996.
To get the story on Scull and Flammer for Iago, I had to go to the civil trial transcripts. As you know, getting coherent information from the transcripts can be a lot of work because of all the context shifts, procedural interruptions, misrepresentations and omissions. When you sort through all of that you will find that Rob McElroy is the common denominator in everything having to do with the photos. That’s why I put it in Iago (chapter 36, page 595 and the glossary portion of the appendix).
I don’t know who took the photo of O.J. in the sports magazine that Pat V. referred to. It could have been one of Scull’s but the shoes could have been the ones O.J.wore to the recital. (wish I had that photo!). They were not clear enough to identify. –Jasper