ASPR Journal, V14 - Iapsop.com

Slander of the Dead. 307
SLANDER OF THE DEAD.
It is bad enough to coin money out of human grief, and
yearning for departed loved ones. But when it comes to the
fraudulent exploitation, lasting for years, of the name of an hon- -
ored gentleman, it is a pity that there could not be action in the
courts for posthumous slander.
The outrageous manipulation of the portrait of the late Rev.
Kemper Bocock, making him, by process of uniting his pictured
head to the pictured bodies of other men, do all sorts of things
undignified and foreign to his nature, was fully exposed in the
last number of the Proceedings, being Vol. XIII, Part 2.
As an act of justice to his memory, we re-print two letters
written to the New York Tribune, one by Mr. Bocock's sister,
the other by Bishop Winchester.
[From N. Y. Tribune of April 9th, 1920.]
SISTER OF DR. BOCOCK DENOUNCES SPIRIT
PHOTOGRAPHS.
To the Editor of the Tribune.
Sir: In your issue of Sunday, March 28th, there appears an
entire page concerning the " psychic " pictures of the Rev. Kemper
Bococ\