Sherman H. Skolnick, a paraplegic invalid, is a campaigning author and journalist. In 1963 he established Citizen's Committee to Clean Up the Courts, a public interest group researching and disclosing certain instances of judicial bribery and political murders.
Skolnick has run Hotline News since 1971. He is also the producer of Broadsides, a one hour weekly taped public access Cable TV Show in Chicago.
In 1973 Skolnick published The Secret History of Airplane Sabotage, a book dealing, among other things, the plane crash that killed Dorothy Hunt and Michelle Clark on 8th December, 1972.
Skolnick also revealled corruption at the Bank of Credit and Commerce International (BCCI). In a 1991 article in Spotlight he claimed that the BCCI bribed 25 per cent of both Houses of Congress, 108 Congressmen and 28 U.S. Senators.
In 2003 Skolnick published Ahead of the Parade, a collection of articles that include: The Murder of John F. Kennedy, The Murder of Martin Luther King, Big City Newspapers and the Mob, The Chandra Levy Affair, Coca-Cola, the CIA and the Courts and The Jesse Jackson Affair.
