Elizabeth Williamson talked to the conspiracy theorists for her new book 'Sandy Hook: An American Tragedy and the Battle for Truth.'
In late April, one week before a trial began that would decide how much Alex Jones should pay the families of first-graders murdered in the 2012 massacre at Sandy Hook Elementary in Connecticut, the conspiracy theorist filed a motion in federal bankruptcy court. Jones, at the helm of a multi-million dollar right-wing media echo chamber, sought relief from the financial reckoning that was surely coming.
Williamson, who worked for years at the Beverly Area Planning Association and whose family moved around the Southwest Side, was a freelancer and stringer for the Chicago Tribune in Russia. She is also a former member of the New York Times Editorial Board, and now covers politics and the Sandy Hook fallout from the Washington Bureau. We spoke by phone recently. The following is a shorter version of a longer conversation, condensed for clarity and length.
Another one, Wolfgang Halbig, raised more than $100,000 to secure public documents and bolster his theory that none of this ever happened. He made more than two dozen trips to Newtown, he tormented families on their phones, he turned up at their houses. And he got income out of this. And he had been a school safety official in his younger days.
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