Through the use of the Freedom of Information Act, documentation was eventually obtained from the FBI which showed that the agency withheld vital information from Congress and the courts which could have kept Wilkinson from prison. Thus, more than 25 years later, at 74 years old, Frank Wilkinson won a landmark decision against the FBI and absolved himself.
In some scenarios of injustice, however, those without some advantage of personal prominence are often heard too late, if at all.
In one such case, in the early 1970s Freedom documented the fate of a U.S. government employee who complained of flaws in one version of the United States’ F-111 fighter plane. Early in the design studies, Duane Yorke noted the plane was “grossly deficient in all avenues of performance.” After protesting that officials were ignoring the evidence, Yorke was committed to a mental ward, confined and given electroshock. That version of the F-111 was later scrapped as it was too heavy—precisely what Yorke had tried to tell officials. The Pentagon told Freedom there had been 58 non-combat crashes and losses as a result of the flawed design.
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