Monroe Dodd

Monroe Dodd, Sykes's collaborator on Show Me Justice, was an editor for more than 30 years at The Kansas City Star newspaper and its onetime morning edition, The Kansas City Times. The newspapers have covered Sykes's efforts for decades. Since 1999, Dodd has edited and written various books about Kansas City, from comprehensive local histories to accounts of its once-grand streetcar system and its most notorious crimes and criminals. In 2013, Dodd wrote for the Kansas City Public Library an...See more

Monroe Dodd, Sykes's collaborator on Show Me Justice, was an editor for more than 30 years at The Kansas City Star newspaper and its onetime morning edition, The Kansas City Times. The newspapers have covered Sykes's efforts for decades. Since 1999, Dodd has edited and written various books about Kansas City, from comprehensive local histories to accounts of its once-grand streetcar system and its most notorious crimes and criminals. In 2013, Dodd wrote for the Kansas City Public Library an account of how libraries influenced and aided Alvin Sykes's life work. That account, entitled Pursuit of Truth, was published by the library and distributed to the public and to other libraries across the country. See less