Man says he was duped into playing part in student newspaper hoax

Sunday, August 28, 2005

CARBONDALE, Ill. -- Patrick Trovillion got a military-style haircut, was outfitted in fatigues, and studied a script detailing the character he was to play in what he thought was a documentary about a father torn away from his young daughter by his deployment in Iraq.

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