![]() ![]() And thus the Nunnallees and Fairs' litigation dragged on, giving Kunen more than enough time to learn about everything from the last minute of one teenager's life to the government and corporate policies that put her at such risk.īecause they're based on the cold logic of cash and cash alone, those policies are the easiest to summarize. ![]() One dollar would have satisfied the parents of 10-year-old Patty Nunnallee and 14-year-old Shannon Fair-one dollar plus a promise from Ford to build the buses to be safer. Two families didn't, asking for less, not more. ![]() Kunen stayed longer than most of the parents, in fact, for nearly all the families promptly accepted Ford Motor Company's offer of $750,000 per death. Unlike others, he stayed with it for three years. But comprehend it one must.īest known for his "The Strawberry Statement," the 1969 book in which he wrote about his experiences as a student anti-war protester at Columbia University, Kunen now reports on issues of crime and the law for People magazine, and he was among the crowds of journalists who flocked to the Carrollton bus crash story. What can you say about either, a bereaved parent might ask: Three-quarters of a million dollars stacked there on the table can be as hard to comprehend as what remains of a loved one's body burned beyond recognition. ![]() Kunen's attempt to put both the coldness of financial figures and the horror of the bus accident into humanly understandable terms. ![]()
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