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 False & Un-substantiated Attacks on Arthur Freed 

Dear Wikipedia:

I am writing to request that the biography of my grandfather, Arthur Freed, be edited by removing the false, outrageous and unsubstantated allegations made first by Shirley Temple in her autobiography and then repeated by Aljean Harmatz in her book on the making of Wizard of Oz about my grnadfather conducting a lewd act in the presence of Shirley Temple at the time of his casting Qizard of Oz.

These allegations were made only first 50 years after they allegedly happened when Shirley Tempole wrote her autobiography and vented her anger over my grandfather giving the relatively unknown Judy Garland the part of Dorothy over very well known Shirley Temple.

There has never been a shred of evidence incdluing third party statements to substantiate these untrue and hurtful to our family outrageous charges.

Further, I see some idot has written on wikipedia about some previous editing of these false statements referring to my grandfather as a child abuser.

Wikipedia  as one of the Internet's most respected sources of information  should respect the foundation of American jurisprudence  ""innocent until proven guilty""  and remove this ridiculous and painful statement.

If you wish to discuss this further with me, please contact me directly.

I would appreciate both the courtesy of a reply and to see that Wikipedia will correct this terrible injustice to my grandfather and our family by remocing totally unsubstantited false allegations.

Stephen A. Saltzman
President
Arthur Freed Productions, Inc.
10681 Santa Monica Blvd.
Los Angeles, CA 90025
310.383.9666
sas2000mm@aol.com"