The
New York Times announced the death of Alan Abel on its obituary page on January 2, 1980. The well-known media hoaxer, it said, had died of a heart attack at a ski resort in Utah. The
Times provided a flattering account of Abel's career, but there was just one problem. Abel wasn't dead. The
Times learned this when Abel held a press conference the next day in which he revealed that the news of his death was a hoax engineered by himself and a team of twelve accomplices.
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The Hoaxes of Alan Abel