NEW YORK DAILY NEWS / AP: …In “Paterno Legacy: Enduring Lessons from the Life and Death of My Father,” which hit the shelves at some central Pennsylvania bookstores this week, Jay Paterno writes that his father said he didn’t want to accuse somebody of something he didn’t witness or know to be true.
“I didn’t know that he’d done all that stuff,” Joe Paterno told his son, according to the book. “I had no idea. I just didn’t know.” …
“I am not writing to exonerate my father because he did not commit a crime that needs a pardon,” he wrote. “If anything, he is guilty of failing to possess the God-like qualities ascribed to him by others, qualities that Joe was the first to insist he never had.” … (more)
EDITOR: Jay Paterno also wrote: “The firing was an act of cowardice. End of story.” It was craven on the part of the governor and cowardly on the part of the board.
