Earlier this week I blogged on the movie “Call Northside 777″ and touched on the true story behind the 1948 film classic shot in Chicago.

On that post, the son of the real-life prison inmate on whom the story turns, left an extended  comment, which I’ll re-publish here along with a couple of old Tribune clips.

The character “Frank Wiecek” was based on a man named Joe Majczek. And Jim Majczek
of Plano Center, born four years after his father was exonerated in the murder of a police officer and walked out of Stateville Correctional Center a free man, wrote this: