Dec 23rd, 2008 · None of the actions involved high-profile individuals. The list included a posthumous pardon for Charles Winters, who aided the Jewish resistance in the 1940s and was convicted of violating the Neutrality Act.
Dec 2nd, 2008 · Critic-at-large John Powers discusses the current literary "It" boy, Chilean-born writer Roberto Bolano. Bolano, who died in 2003, has won posthumous praise for his novel 2666.
Nov 11th, 2008 · The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo is an unlikely best-seller — it's the first book in a trilogy of thrillers written by Stieg Larsson, a previously unknown Swedish journalist who died of a heart attack in 2004.
Oct 17th, 2008 · Volunteers are searching for remains of victims from the Spanish Civil War in an effort to bring posthumous justice to those who were killed in the 1930s conflict. Time is against them, as there are few remaining survivors who remember what actually happened.
Mar 7th, 2008 · Graham Hewitt is a trance medium, former solicitor advocate and the lawyer leading the legal effort to pardon Helen Duncan, a Scottish housewife and mother of six, who is said to have foretold the loss of a WWII British battleship.
Feb 23rd, 2007 · Much-lauded science-fiction writer Octavia E. Butler died last year in a fall at the age of 58. Her final novel, called Fledgling has recently been reprinted in paperback.
Jan 11th, 2007 · President Bush awards the Medal of Honor to Marine Cpl. Jason Dunham, who died in Iraq two years ago. Dunham died after throwing himself on a live hand grenade to save his fellow Marines. His parents accepted the award on his behalf. Michele Norris talks with Deb and Dan Dunham about that experience, and memories of their son.
Sep 22nd, 2006 · Cablevision Systems reportedly is involved in a case of backdating stock options. The Wall Street Journal reports an executive with the company received options after his death in 1999.