On a warm Saturday in early July, an employee at the Maryland Historical Society placed a call to the police. He had noticed two visitors behaving strangely—a young, tall, handsome man with high cheekbones and full lips and a much older, heavier man, with dark, lank hair and a patchy, graying beard. The older man had called in advance to give the librarians a list of boxes of documents he wanted to see, saying that he was researching a book. At some point during their visit, the employee saw the younger man slip a document into a folder. When the police arrived, they found 79 documents in a laptop bag and took the two men into custody.
The younger man was Jason Savedoff, a year-old Canadian-American dual citizen and aspiring model who had attended McGill University. But it was the older man whose identity quickly attracted national attention. He was a year-old presidential historian named Barry Landau, who for many years had moved in the most rarefied circles of American life.
According to Landau’s website, he had “served nine Presidents and worked with every White House since Lyndon Johnson’s.” A search for his name in news accounts finds him appearing, Zelig-like, alongsi
Barry H. Landau (born c. ) is a noted thief of presidential artifacts, collector of presidential artifacts, author, and "self-styled 'America's Presidential Historian'". In July , Landau's *ociate, year-old Jason Savedoff, was seen taking a do*ent out of a library. After an investigation and various searches, Landau and Savedoff were "charged with stealing valuable historical do*ents from the Maryland Historical Society and conspiring to steal do*ents from other archives." After pleading guilty, Landau was sentenced to seven years' imprisonment in June
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Landau stated his interest in the presidency began at the age of 10, when his mother took him to see then President Dwight D. Eisenhower; he claimed to have spoken with both the president and First Lady Mamie Eisenhower at that time. The Wall Street Journal, however, reported that he wrote a letter to the president and received a card in reply.
He worked as a press agent in New York in the s and s. He also claimed that "he was a protocol officer under President Gerald R. Ford and that he once traveled to Moscow with President Richard M. Nixon,&
60 Minutes profiles Barry Landau, the thief who stole priceless treasures from the National Archives
American history is housed in the National Archives. Forty-four of them, spread all over the country. They contain documents, photos, maps, artifacts that go back to our founding fathers. Every school kid knows about some of them: the Declaration of Independence, the Constitution, and Bill of Rights; but there are millions of others, from the patent for Michael Jackson's moonwalking shoes, to Benedict Arnold's loyalty oath.
Many are priceless treasures which means they attract not only scholars but thieves; more and more of them all the time. Getting to the crooks before they get to the archives has become a new priority in law enforcement.
No one knows more about this than Barry Landau - a self-described presidential historian and one of the foremost collectors of presidential memorabilia. That's because Barry Landau carried out the largest theft of these treasures in American history. Prosecutors say he is one of the most accomplished conmen they've ever encountered
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Barry H. Landau is a presidential historian and one of the foremost collectors of presidential memorabilia and artifacts. His collection started when he was ten years old after a visit to the White House with President & Mrs. Eisenhower. He has served eight Presidents and worked with every White House since Lyndon Johnson's planning historic events. In an article entitled America's Best, Landau was named "Best Collector" by Reader's Digest in He has been a frequent network commentator on matters relating to the presidency and White House protocol on ABC, CBS, NBC, Fox, CNN and MSNBC, and has served on numerous Presidential commissions. He is President of Barry Landau Productions, a multi-media company, and resides in New York City.
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