Episode 23 Bayard Peakes

On a summer morning in 1952, a young man named Bayard Peakes walked into the Physical Society’s Office at Columbia University. He was angry that his article had been rejected from their journal for being a ‘crackpot’ theory, and he was looking for revenge. Standing between him and possible academic glory was a teenage secretary working the front desk. Bayard shot 18 year old Eileen Fahen in the chest and fled. Pursued by police all the way back to his hometown of Boston, Bayard wanted the world to know that he was the ‘naughty boy’ who had murdered the secretary of one of the most renowned physics departments. His notoriety was short-lived. His tactics, however, prompted the Columbia Physical Society to change the way they view what they called 'Crackpots'

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