![]() ![]() Landau sold four of these speeches to a collector for $35,000. ![]() These included the reading copy of Roosevelt’s inaugural address. Roosevelt (the actual copies of the speeches Roosevelt read from, including his handwritten edits and additions were also stolen. Seven signed ‘reading copies’ of speeches by President Franklin D. Landau and 24-year-old Jason Savedoff, whom Landau falsely had identified as his nephew, were involved in thefts of including letters by Sir Isaac Newton, Marie Antoinette, Napoleon Bonaparte, Benjamin Franklin, John Hancock, Francis Scott Key, Karl Marx, Thomas Paine, Edgar Allan Poe and George Washington. “After pleading guilty, Landau was sentenced to seven years imprisonment in June 2012. After investigation and searches, he and Savedoff were “charged with stealing valuable historical documents from the Maryland Historical Society and conspiring to steal documents from other archives. ![]() In July 2011, Landau’s associate, 24-year-old Jason Savedoff, was seen taking a document out of a library. Landau is a noted thief of presidential artifacts, collector of presidential artifacts, author, and “self-styled ‘America’s Presidential Historian'”. Here’s why Bob Simon decided to surprise Barry H. 60 Minutes crews don’t show up unannounced very often. ![]()
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