Kendall R. Phillips (2004). Framing public memory. University of Alabama Press. էջ 81. ISBN978-0-8173-1389-0. Վերցված է 2010 թ․ հունիսի 21-ին. «Both policemen who shot Whitman sued MGM after the made-for-TV movie was released. Martinez received a settlement; the other policeman, Houston McCoy, whose name was not used in the film, received nothing, even though the film portrays him standing by passively as the actor playing Martinez fires the fatal shot. Whitman's autopsy showed that it was McCoy's bullet that killed the sniper.»
