I really don't remember but I tend to think that Thomas Hills would remember a lot more about Hitler's cousins than I would as this story barely blipped in my mind. Just another sad story. However, I do think that New York was not the state originally mentioned in high school. It might have been somewhere in the Midwest but I really don't remember very much about that. I also seem to remember some discussion of Solzhenitsyn and his "Gulag Archipelago." After all, it was the early 1970s.