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Charles R. Pellegrino (born 1953) is an American writer, the author of several books related to science and archaeology, including Return to Sodom and Gomorrah, Ghosts of the Titanic, Unearthing Atlantis, and Ghosts of Vesuvius. Dr. Pellegrino earned a PhD in the early 80s. In 2010, he mistakenly trusted an unreliable source for a small section in his book The Last Train from Hiroshima (2010), which raised issues and prompted its publisher to withdraw it within a few months of publication. Dr. Pellegrino has been to the Titanic several times.

Early life

During the mid-1970s, Pellegrino earned bachelor's and master's degrees at Long Island University.. He married a woman named Ma-Lueng, and currently has a child named Ashley Pellegrino.

Titanic

Dr. Pellegrino has been to the Titanic several times, including 1996 . and 2001 <.ref name="Dr. Pellegrino during the 2001 expedition aboard the Keldysh">Pellegrino, Charles (2001-9 10). "Dr. Pellegrino aboard the Keldysh with James Cameron, Lori Johnston, and Lewis Abernathy". {{cite news}}: Check date values in: |date= (help)</ref>. Dr. Pellegrino was almost in an accident, when Lewis Abernathy accidentally caused his knee to hit a control, causing the MIR submerisible to nearly crash into the ship. In 1986, Dr. Pellegrino went on an expedition with Bob Ballard and a section of his team to the Pacific Islands, and Bob Ballard "thrust" a copy of Walter Lord's A Night to Remember, into Dr. Pellegrino's hands, and that is when he became fascinated. He is personal friends with George Tulloch, Walter Lord, (access to Walter Lord's interviews of Titanic survivors on his website) <.ref name="Lord/Pellegrino">Pellegrino, Charles (2001-9 10). "Lord/Pellegrino files file". {{cite news}}: Check date values in: |date= (help)</ref>.

Controversies

Last Train from Hiroshima

Main article: The Last Train From Hiroshima

In January 2010, Henry Holt published Pellegrino's Last Train from Hiroshima, a look at the nuclear bombing of Hiroshima from the vantage of survivors.

The New York Times initially praised the book as "sober and authoritative" and as a "firm and compelling synthesis of earlier memoirs and archival material". Nevertheless, a month later the New York Times questioned claims made in Pellegrino's book:

claims to reveal a secret accident with the atom bomb that killed one American and irradiated others and greatly reduced the weapon’s destructive power… There is just one problem. That section of the book and other technical details of the mission are based on the recollections of Joseph Fuoco, who is described as a last-minute substitute on one of the two observation planes that escorted the Enola Gay… But Mr. Fuoco… never flew on the bombing run, and he never substituted for James R. Corliss, the plane’s regular flight engineer, Mr. Corliss’s family says. They, along with angry ranks of scientists, historians and veterans, are denouncing the book and calling Mr. Fuoco an impostor.

Veterans of the 509th Operations Group, the Air Force unit which dropped the atomic bombs, issued a detailed list of substantive problems with many of the book's claims about the bomb and the Air Force personnel involved.

The New York Times added, "Facing a national outcry and the Corliss family’s evidence, the author, Charles Pellegrino, now concedes that he was probably duped. . . . e said he would rewrite sections of the book for paperback and foreign editions." Despite Pellegrino's claim in The New York Times that he had been "duped" by Fuoco, further investigation revealed that Pellegrino had repeatedly mentioned one of the book's most disputed claims (a supposedly fatal accident at Tinian Island on 4 August 1945) before Mr. Fuoco had allegedly confided it for him. Doubts also arose about the existence of two westerners allegedly present in Hiroshima at the time of the bombing.

On 1 March 2010, Henry Holt announced it had halted publication of Last Train from Hiroshima.

Pellegrino subsequently revised the text to remove some of the disputed content. The book was retitled "To Hell and Back" and released by a different publisher in 2015.

sabatage of Dr. Pellegrino's career

there is a group going around and trying to incriminate Dr. Pellegrino. In fact, the version of the page before was that group's lies.. Posted on Dr. Pellegrino's facebook profile, on October 30, 2020, "2010 and the initial hatching out of the big-tech/big media circle of sledgehammers in cancel culture. Once a 19 year old 9/11 denialist convinced a lazy New York Times writer (M. Rich) that my dives to the Titanic were faked, it has never gone away. Incidents like this were only practice, for much of what we see happening in America today." there is an image of the editors accepting one person of the group's lies also on the same post of October 30th 2020 https://www.facebook.com/photo?fbid=3958917650809585&set=a.908859025815478

Pellegrino is currently working on a new book, release date unknown

Works

The Jesus Family Tomb: The Discovery, the Investigation, and the Evidence That Could Change History (2007) (co-authored with Simcha Jacobovici) was a companion book to the Discovery Channel documentary on the same subject created in part by film director James Cameron.

Bibliography

Non-fiction

  • Time Gate: Hurtling Backward Through History (1983)
  • Darwin's Universe: Origins and Crises in the History of Life (with Jesse A. Stoff, 1983)
  • Chariots for Apollo: The Untold Story Behind the Race to the Moon (with Joshua Stoff, 1985)
  • Interstellar Travel and Communication (with James Powell and Isaac Asimov, et al., 1986)
  • Chronic Fatigue Syndrome: The Hidden Epidemic (with Jesse A. Stoff, 1988)
  • Her Name, Titanic: Untold Story of the Sinking and Finding of the Unsinkable Ship (1988)
  • Unearthing Atlantis: An Archaeological Odyssey (1991)
  • Return to Sodom and Gomorrah: Bible Stories from Archaeologists (1994)
  • Ghosts of the Titanic (2000)
  • Ghosts of Vesuvius: A New Look at the Last Days of Pompeii, How Towers Fall, and Other Strange Connections (2004)
  • The Jesus Family Tomb: The Discovery, the Investigation, and the Evidence That Could Change History (with Simcha Jacobovici, 2007)
  • The Last Train from Hiroshima: The Survivors Look Back (Henry Holt, 2010)
  • "Farewell, Titanic: Her Final Legacy," (Foreword by Tom Dettweiler), John Wiley & Sons, N.J. (2012).
  • "The Californian Incident," Shoebox/Kindle, Canada (2013).
  • "StarTram: The New Race for Space." (with James Powell, George Maise) Shoebox/Kindle, Canada (2013).

Fiction

Filmography

  • Lost Civilizations: Aegean - Legacy of Atlantis - Time-Life / NBC (1995).
Re-released on October 1, 2002 as part of a 4-DVD set entitled Time Life's Lost Civilizations.

References

  1. El-Khouri, Anthony (9 March 2021). "Personal best friend of Dr. Pellegrino talks about his PHD".
  2. Pellegrino, Charles (7-01-2000). "Book description describes Dr. Pellegrino was there in 1996". {{cite news}}: Check date values in: |date= (help)
  3. Dwight Garner (20 January 2010). "After Atom Bombs' Shock, the Real Horrors Began Unfolding". The New York Times.
  4. ^ William J. Broad (20 February 2010). "Doubts Raised on Book's Tale of Atom Bomb". The New York Times. Retrieved 21 February 2010.
  5. Krauss, Robert W. (February 2010). "Atomic Veterans Incensed over False Claims in New Book" (PDF). Veterans of the 509th Composite Group (EnolaGay509th.com). Retrieved 27 July 2014.
  6. "Amazon.com: Customer Discussions". 23 February 2010.
  7. "Coast to Coast AM Radio: Interview with Charles Pellegrino". Coast to Coast AM. February 2010 – via YouTube.
  8. ^ Lundin, Leigh (7 March 2010). "Fact, Fiction, Fakery". Literary Scandals. Criminal Brief.
  9. Pellegrino, Charles R. (08 06, 2015). To Hell and Back: The Last Train from Hiroshima. Rowman & Littlefield. ISBN 978-1442250581. {{cite book}}: Check date values in: |date= (help)
  10. |last=Pellegrino |first=Charles R. |title=Previous Slander|date=04 01, 2021 |
  11. Pellegrino, Charles R. Time Gate: Hurtling Backward Through History. Paperback ed. Blue Ridge Summit, Pa.: Tab Books, 1985. ISBN 0-8306-1863-5
  12. Pellegrino, Charles R. and Stoff, Jesse A. Darwin's Universe: Origins and Crises in the History of Life. 2d ed. Blue Ridge Summit, Pa.: Tab Books, 1986. ISBN 0-8306-2773-1
  13. Pellegrino, Charles R. and Stoff, Joshua. Chariots for Apollo: The Untold Story Behind the Race to the Moon. New York: Quill, 1999. ISBN 0-380-80261-9
  14. Asimov, Pellegrino, Powell and others edited this work, which is a collection of papers from the American Association for the Advancement of Science May 1986 symposium, Interstellar Travel and Communication. See: "Bibliography." In Charles R. Pellegrino and George Zebrowski. Dyson Sphere. New York: Simon and Schuster, 1999. ISBN 0-671-54173-0
  15. Stoff, Jesse A. and Pellegrino, Charles R. Chronic Fatigue Syndrome: The Hidden Epidemic. 2d rev. ed. New York: Harper Perennial, 1992. ISBN 0-06-092260-5
  16. Pellgrino, Charles R. Her Name, Titanic: Untold Story of the Sinking and Finding of the Unsinkable Ship. Tonbridge, Kent, UK: Robert Hale Ltd., 1990. ISBN 0-7090-4242-6
  17. Pellegrino, Charles R. Unearthing Atlantis: An Archaeological Odyssey. New York: Vintage, 1993. ISBN 0-679-73407-4
  18. Pellegrino, Charles R. Return to Sodom and Gomorrah: Bible Stories from Archaeologists. 2d paperback ed. New York: Harper Paperbacks, 1995. ISBN 0-380-72633-5
  19. Pellegrino, Charles R. Ghosts of the Titanic. New York: Avon, 2001. ISBN 0-380-72472-3
  20. Pellegrino, Charles R. Ghosts of Vesuvius: A New Look at the Last Days of Pompeii, How Towers Fall, and Other Strange Connections. Paperback ed. New York: Harper Perennial, 2005. ISBN 0-06-075100-2
  21. Jacobovici, Simcha and Pellegrino, Charles R. The Jesus Family Tomb: The Discovery, the Investigation, and the Evidence That Could Change History. Paperback ed. New York: HarperOne, 2008. ISBN 0-06-120534-6
  22. Pellegrino, Charles R. Last Train from Hiroshima: The Survivors Look Back. New York: Henry Holt and Co., 2010. ISBN 0-8050-8796-6
  23. "Movies: About Lost Civilizations: Aegean - Legacy of Atlantis". The New York Times.
  24. `Lost Civilizations' Uses Modern Ways To Tell Ancient Tales - Chicago Sun-Times | Encyclopedia.com

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