Original sentence: A December 27, 1971 CBS Evening News report from veteran Delmar Pickett who said he was spat on in Seattle appears to also have some validity as a claim, but not as evidence that the incident reported actually happened.Lembke claims that some of the stories that Green published to "have elements of such exaggeration that one has to question the veracity of the entire account.Spitting Image contrasts with author and columnist Bob Greene's 1989 book Homecoming in which Greene prints several letters he had solicited from veterans, asking to hear from them if they had been spat on and focuses on firsthand accounts of mistreatment from anti-war protesters
Edited sentence: A December 27, 1971 CBS Evening News report on veteran Delmar Pickett who said he was spat at in Seattle appears to also have some validity as a claim, but not as evidence that the incident reported actually happened.Lembke claims that some of the stories that Green published "have elements of such exaggeration that one has to question the veracity of the entire account.Spitting Image contrasts with author and columnist Bob Greene's 1989 book Homecoming in which Greene prints several letters he had solicited from veterans, asking to hear from them if they had been spat upon and focuses on firsthand accounts of their treatment