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His indisputable bravery and honor inoculate him against charges of base motives.
Notes left by Barton in the apartment where his second wife and two children were found dead shed light on the motives behind his killing spree: estrangement from his wife, recent massive day trading losses, and a strange allusion to a "fear" passed from his father, to him, and ultimately to his son.
The film doesn't show that Wallace later apologized for his segregationist views on TV, suggesting that his conversion had political motives.
Yet all these films are suffused with a sense of the basic justice of the Irish nationalist cause and, more than that, of the purity of the motives that drive the IRA.
When Stephanopoulos' book comes out, nobody will impugn his motives or question his reliability simply because he sold his story to the highest bidder.