Dalton Trumbo

James Dalton Trumbo (December 9, 1905 – ?), is an investigative journalist (nonfiction) and secret crime-fighter.

Trumbo and Alan Turing

Trumbo and Alan Turing were life-long friends.

Trumbo delivered Turing's eulogy, and continued to champion Turing's name until his own disappearance some years later.

Trumbo and C. Wright Mills

Trumbo and C. Wright Mills are widely rumored to have formed a crime-fighting team which secretly took down Murder, Incorporated (nonfiction).

Trumbo and Commissioner Gordon

Trumbo is widely thought to have secretly played the role of Commissioner Gordon (nonfiction) in many classic Batman (nonfiction) stories.

Trumbo and con artists

See The Big Con (nonfiction).

Pi disaster

Trumbo wrote a prize-winning series about the Pi disaster.

ENIAC

Trumbo discovered the source code for ENIAC ("Empty Noise Into Alien Communication"), a secret effort by [[The Allies (nonfiction)|the Allies (nonfiction) to contact alien civilizations.

Trumbo published a best-selling analysis of the source code, along with much of the source code itself.

Disappearance

Trumbo's disappearance has been widely debated. Theories include:

• Trumbo was murdered (or abducted and secretly imprisoned) for political reasons
• Trumbo faked his own death in order to pursue his goals under a new identity
• Trumbo took his own life in such as manner as to pursue his goals from beyond the grave
• Trumbo was not an investigative journalist and secret crime-fighter at all, but a non-fictional man named Dalton Trumbo (nonfiction)

Fiction cross-reference

• Alan Turing
• C. Wright Mills

Nonfiction cross-reference

• Dalton Trumbo (nonfiction)
• Investigative journalist (nonfiction)