[2] The Wall Street Journal, however, reported that he wrote a letter to the president and received a card in reply.
[4] He amassed such a large collection of presidential memorabilia that, in 2005, Larry Bird, a curator of the National Museum of American History, stated that he possessed "the most extensive collection of inaugural memorabilia outside the Smithsonian, the National Archives or the presidential libraries.
He knew how to conduct himself in a research library, but Savedoff, of whom little is known, was 'rough around the edges' and 'repeatedly asked naive questions,' he said".
[5] On July 9, 2011, a staff member saw Savedoff take a document out of the society's library in Baltimore and police were called.
[10] Papers on file in federal court in Maryland show that the FBI also recovered documents stolen from historical societies or museums in Connecticut and Vermont.
[13] Items stolen included letters by Marie Antoinette, Napoleon Bonaparte, Benjamin Franklin, John Hancock, Francis Scott Key, Karl Marx, Thomas Paine, Edgar Allan Poe and George Washington.
[14] Landau and Savedoff were jailed in Baltimore and indicted by a federal grand jury in late July 2011.