Activist Sherman Skolnick Dies

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Activist Sherman Skolnick Dies [img]http://img.viacomlocalnetworks.com/images_sizedimage_141212419/lg[/img] (CBS) CHICAGO Community activist and cable television host Sherman Skolnick has died at the age of 73.

Mr. Skolnick died at his home. Some dismissed Mr. Skolnick as a conspiracy theorist, but some have credited him with exposing a bribery scandal within the Illinois court system in the late 1960s and early 1970s, in a corruption scandal that led to the indictment of former Gov. Otto Kerner.

Mr. Skolnick founded the group the Citizen�s Committee to Clean up the Courts in 1963. He was also the host of the cable television program �Broadside.�

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