Bibliomania: In Cold Blood with Truman Capote, Part 2

In the second part, we look at Garden City, the courthouse, and the cemetery where the Clutters are buried.

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• bibliomania
• in
• cold
• blood
• truman
• capote
• garden
• city
• holcomb

[venkatrules]

Thanks for the video. Thanks for the tour.

Could you tell me from where did you get the audio of Capote reading from the book. I would like to listen to it.

[blacksheeppro]

@venkatrules Unfortunately, I used the soundtrack from the movie Capote which just had small audio clips. In the past, I have tried to find the whole audiobook, but I couldn't find it. I don't think Truman Capote ever read the entire book but just small selections.

[irish42matic]

Thanks for your video. Like on the first video, I've traveled to the Clutter home and have spent time in Garden City and Holcom... Amazing history in the West and I love it... Keep up the good work. I like your narrative, good voice, maybe more of the Midwest history is in store.... you have a niche..

[sandyfrazier9]

Very nice! Thanks so much! I enjoyed it.

[jksonny]

Nice work! Thanks!

[daveedslater]

Thanks for that. I enjoyed it very much. I just finished reading the book, so it was nice to put places and faces to it.

[aerialkate]

Have you seen 'Infamous'? It was the second Truman Capote biopic to be made after 'Capote'. According to Alvin Dewey (as played by Jeff Daniels ) Perry Smith did not elect to speak or offer an apology prior to his execution (Capote had urged him to make a confession, in order to appear more sympathetic to the readers of 'In Cold Blood'). I've seen both films and found 'Infamous' to be far superior to 'Capote'. Capote wrote that Smith apologised - which Dewey disputed. Will we ever know?

[moiraregis]

@jerryjoe88

well of course people have a morbid curiosity about this mass murder, although not all of us would like to have been a fly on the wall of that basement that accursed night. that doesn't mean that we don't also feel great pity and sympathy for the terror those poor people endured, through no fault of their own. you can feel two or three or a hundred different emotions about one thing, you know, particularly one as sensational and complex as this.

[moiraregis]

such a sad story, but i think capote helped make this act of incomprehensible cruelty not understandable but at least worth wondering about for the rest of one's life. i wish only good things for the poor clutters, who i bet would have pleaded for clemency for their killers.

[otrootroyo]

Conratulations. You made a great job... "In Cold Blood": just a masterpiece.

[redpaul79]

not at all true that he never published another book after InCold Blood--Music For Chameleons admittedly includes some material written earlier, but the title piece was written after In Cold Blood, and is in many ways a tighter, more streamlined take on the "nonfiction novel"... never understood why anybody felt any sympathy for Hickock and Smith. Scumbags of the lowest sort.