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[FamiliarFace]

Here’s that link. http://www.esquire.com/sports/a14286/joe-paterno-0612/

I thought I had included the pertinent part in a response, but maybe I only composed it and didn’t actually post it.

Here’s that part. I know that it is circumstantial, but between my late father-in-law and the author of the Esquire piece, I am convinced that JoePa knew about the 1998 incident, and it upset him enough that he changed his schedule, something he very rarely did. Now for the part that I was referring to:

***But yes, even here, in Paterno’s archives in Paterno’s library, there are some things that raise questions.

According to the grand-jury indictment, the first time Jerry Sandusky was investigated on suspicions of sexual abuse was back in 1998. On May 13 and 19 of that year, detectives from the Penn State and municipal police departments hid in the home of the mother of an alleged victim and listened in on conversations she had with Sandusky, conversations in which Sandusky admitted that his genitals might have touched her son, and that he felt terrible about it, saying “I wish I were dead.” Then, on June 1, they interviewed Sandusky in person. Shortly afterward, for unclear reasons, the case was dropped.

Would Joe Paterno have been told about that investigation? Would any Penn State police officers or administrators have informed Joe Paterno that they were investigating his heir apparent on suspicion of heinous crimes?

We don’t know.

Paterno himself said he never knew about the 1998 investigation, and nobody has produced evidence contradicting him.

You won’t find any such evidence in Paterno’s archives.

You will, though, find something curious, and perhaps, depending on how you interpret it, troubling.

You will find, if you dig into his archives from 1998, that he was a very busy man — he wrote in one letter that he had “committed all my free time to” and was “really stretched” by the ongoing fundraising campaign. You will find that he was a very reliable man as well. When he planned to do something, he would do it. In fact, if you look at his agenda from 1998, you’ll see that he almost always kept to his schedule, and that his only cancellations fall within a very narrow window of time.

The first cancellation is on May 15, two days after police listen in on Sandusky’s half-confession to the mother of a young boy. That evening, Paterno cuts short a fundraising trip to Valley Forge, then cancels a four-day-long personal vacation he had been planning to take from May 16 to 19, to his summer home in Avalon, New Jersey. He resumes his scheduled fundraising trips in June, about a week after the investigation against Sandusky is dropped. He doesn’t miss any more events for the remainder of the year.***