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Dec 10th, 2016 at 12:38am
 
it is never too late to come clean.

A Lifelong Secret: Can You Help This Ailing 94-Year-Old Man Make Amends?


Dr. Joseph Linsk grew up on Atlantic Avenue in the uptown section of Atlantic City, N.J., in the early 1930s. It's an area where he's spent most of his life and where he practiced medicine starting in the 1940s, specializing in cancer and blood diseases.

Now 94 years old, the former hematologist and oncologist is failing in health, as he battles Parkinson's disease. This grave illness, however, is only one part of a perennial struggle Linsk faces. For more than 80 years, he's kept a secret. And it's one about which we're kindly requesting your help.

His secret raises the question, "Is it ever too late to make amends?"

At his Atlantic City home over the Thanksgiving weekend, Linsk was recorded by his son, Richard, as part of StoryCorps' annual effort called the Great Thanksgiving Listen. During that recording, Dr. Linsk shared that well-guarded secret he'd held on to for almost his entire life.

I was smitten with grief at what I had done. I kept that secret to the age of 94, which is hard to believe, but the event never left me.
Dr. Joseph Linsk
"When I was 8 years old, I was running in the schoolyard and my arm struck the eyeglasses of one of the students. And he began to cry," he recalls. "He was going to tell his father. It would cost $2 to fix the glasses. And I was frightened to death — where was I going to get the $2?"

Linsk knew he had to find a way to make up for his playground fumble.

"We had a cleaning lady by the name of Pearl, a black woman. And I knew that every week, she'd get $2 for her services," he says. "On this particular day, I was so terrified, I took the $2, and took it to the teacher and settled the problem of the broken glasses."

But what he thought had fixed one problem, created another.

"When Pearl finished her day's work, she went for the $2 and they weren't there. And my mother said there was no question that Pearl took the $2 and didn't admit it. And my mother was so angry, that she told Pearl not to come back anymore," Linsk says.


His action had a domino effect. Word leaked out that Pearl was a thief.

Pearl, who had several children, couldn't get another job, Linsk says. "I was the only one who knew the true story. And I didn't tell anyone. And I was smitten with grief at what I had done.

"I kept that secret to the age of 94, which is hard to believe, but the event never left me."

This is only half the story. Linsk doesn't remember Pearl's last name and doesn't know what happened to her or her family.


http://www.npr.org/2016/12/09/504828481/a-lifelong-secret-can-you-help-this-aili...
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Reply #1 - Dec 10th, 2016 at 10:03pm
 
That is one sad story but considering it is on NPR it has no credibility.

Bad White People, bad, bad white people.

Haven't you learned after all the exposure that Outlets like NPR are in the opinion forming business and not the News business?
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Reply #2 - Dec 10th, 2016 at 10:08pm
 
He hasn't come clean, he is still dirty.

He ruined a person's life and blackened her reputation.

He hasn't atoned or made amends. He just confessed.

If he really wanted to atone he could have done it 70 or 80 years ago.
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Reply #3 - Dec 10th, 2016 at 11:05pm
 
Unforgiven wrote on Dec 10th, 2016 at 10:08pm:
He hasn't come clean, he is still dirty.

He ruined a person's life and blackened her reputation.

He hasn't atoned or made amends. He just confessed.

If he really wanted to atone he could have done it 70 or 80 years ago.



The point is it's a "feel guilty white people fiction" story the liberals love to share.
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Reply #4 - Dec 11th, 2016 at 12:20am
 
Mortdooley wrote on Dec 10th, 2016 at 10:03pm:
That is one sad story but considering it is on NPR it has no credibility.

Bad White People, bad, bad white people.

Haven't you learned after all the exposure that Outlets like NPR are in the opinion forming business and not the News business?


In regard to Mort Dooley's contention that NPR has no credibility; if NPR broadcast a story that Mort Dooley was a moral man and honest would that be interpreted by Mort Dooley that he was exposed as a pervert and a criminal?
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No, it would suggest that a more credible source is needed to explain why NPR had an interest in Mort Dooleys behavior.
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Mortdooley wrote on Dec 11th, 2016 at 12:44am:
No, it would suggest that a more credible source is needed to explain why NPR had an interest in Mort Dooleys behavior.


Mort Dooleys need to be exposed
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Reply #7 - Dec 11th, 2016 at 1:26am
 
Unforgiven wrote on Dec 11th, 2016 at 12:55am:
Mortdooley wrote on Dec 11th, 2016 at 12:44am:
No, it would suggest that a more credible source is needed to explain why NPR had an interest in Mort Dooleys behavior.


Mort Dooleys need to be exposed


We call that "Flashing" in my country and it is against the law, Mort Dooley is a fine upstanding citizen.
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Reply #8 - Dec 11th, 2016 at 3:01am
 
Mortdooley wrote on Dec 11th, 2016 at 1:26am:
Unforgiven wrote on Dec 11th, 2016 at 12:55am:
Mortdooley wrote on Dec 11th, 2016 at 12:44am:
No, it would suggest that a more credible source is needed to explain why NPR had an interest in Mort Dooleys behavior.


Mort Dooleys need to be exposed


We call that "Flashing" in my country and it is against the law, Mort Dooley is a fine upstanding citizen.


I'm just glad you didn't say "member of your community."
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Reply #9 - Dec 11th, 2016 at 11:23pm
 
Mortdooley wrote on Dec 10th, 2016 at 10:03pm:
That is one sad story but considering it is on NPR it has no credibility.

Bad White People, bad, bad white people.

Haven't you learned after all the exposure that Outlets like NPR are in the opinion forming business and not the News business?


There is something wrong with you Mortie, like an infection  Cheesy
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