Headscratchers / Different Seasons

• In Apt Pupil, why does Bowden mention Albert Speer as an example of a Nazi still imprisoned when he was released about a decade before the story was set?
  • You are correct. Either King twisted events in his timeline to create a minor example of alternate history, or it's possible that even the diligent researcher Todd Bowden could have made a mistake and asserted it as a fact.