Joe Scarborough: “On the cover of the New York Times earlier this summer was the headline, A Boy's School Project Aims to Revise History.…”

“On the cover of the New York Times earlier this summer was the headline, A Boy's School Project Aims to Revise History. It told the story of Hunter Scott, a middle schooler who is trying to change history as it was written 50 years ago. In the closing days of World War II, the U.S.S. Indianapolis had its hull pierced by three Japanese torpedoes. Twelve minutes later the cruiser went down. On board were almost 1,200 crew members and only 300 survived, the others dying of shark attacks and exposure. For half a century, the 316 remaining surviving crew members of the worst disaster in Naval history tried in vain to defend the honor of their captain, Charles McVay. This year a new secret weapon was employed in their quest, and that weapon was a 13-year-old boy named Hunter Scott. Two years ago Hunter came to my district office to show me a middle school history project that he had made. Now, this extraordinary history project actually contained clear, convincing evidence of the Indianapolis crew's bravery and of the injustice done to their captain who was wrongly court-martialed as a useful scapegoat in this disaster.”