[Salamander]

Back when it played on TV, everyone I knew was under the impression it was a ‘true story’.

Here’s this, FWIW.

http://www.wnd.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=45084

[Kirkwood]

Thanks for posting that. That’s really interesting and the truth is even worse than I knew. I assumed Haley was correct regarding the names of his ancestors and simply fictionalized everything about their lives. This says he even got his ancestors names wrong and he didn’t even write the book! I didn’t know that! Does that sound like anyone we know?

At any rate, to my knowledge Roots has always been listed as a work of fiction and on top of that the miniseries was never an accurate representation of the novel. Those who thought it was actual history are the same type of people who voted obama.