Editing Gerald Posner (section)

{{Short description|American journalist and author}}
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| name        = Gerald Posner
| image       = Gerald Posner March 2013.jpg
| caption     = Posner in 2013 in Miami
| birth_name  = Gerald Leo Posner<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1984/03/18/style/trisha-d-levene-to-become-bride.html|title=Trisha D. Levene To Become Bride|date=March 18, 1984|work=The New York Times|access-date=October 6, 2016}}</ref>
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| birth_place = [[San Francisco]], [[California]], U.S.
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| occupation  = Writer
| spouse      = [[Trisha Posner]] 
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'''Gerald Leo Posner''' is an American [[investigative journalism|investigative journalist]] and author of thirteen books, including ''Case Closed: Lee Harvey Oswald and the Assassination of JFK'' (1993), which explores the [[John F. Kennedy assassination]], and ''Killing the Dream: James Earl Ray and the Assassination of Martin Luther King, Jr.'' (1998), about the [[assassination of Martin Luther King, Jr.]] A plagiarism scandal involving articles that Posner wrote for ''[[The Daily Beast]]'' and his book ''Miami Babylon'' arose in 2010.<ref>[https://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/02/11/gerald-posner-resigns-fro_n_458169.html Gerald Posner RESIGNS From Daily Beast Over Plagiarism Scandal] by Danny Shea, ''The Huffington Post'', February 11, 2010.</ref><ref>[http://www.theatlanticwire.com/opinions/view/opinion/3-Lessons-from-Gerald-Posners-Plagiarism-Scandal-2525 3 Lessons from Gerald Posner's Plagiarism Scandal] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100327144849/http://www.theatlanticwire.com/opinions/view/opinion/3-Lessons-from-Gerald-Posners-Plagiarism-Scandal-2525 |date=March 27, 2010 }} by John Hudson, ''The Atlantic Wire'', February 12, 2010</ref><ref>[http://www.newsweek.com/2010/02/10/plagiarism-excuses.html Plagiarism Excuses. Taking—er, borrowing—a page out of the Gerald Posner playbook.] by David Graham, ''Newsweek'', February 11, 2010</ref><ref>[http://miamiherald.typepad.com/gaysouthflorida/2010/03/amid-book-scandal-authors-gerald-posner-and-frank-owen-confront-each-other-at-miami-beach-botanical-garden.html Amid book scandal, authors Gerald Posner and Frank Owen confront each other at Miami Beach Botanical Garden] by Steve Rothaus, ''Miami Herald'', April 2010</ref>