And that was usually the end of the discussion." Kane pointed out to the interviewer that when he worked for the Jewish Press he interviewed famous people because he was, "trying to shed light on facts generally unknown". Kane told another reporter that while getting his higher education the professors would assign certain books for the students to read. He would read something else, "I did not like to play follow-the-leader in education. If everyone was forced to read "The Merchant of Venice", I would read "Twelfth Night". Those professors were wrong when quoting facts and, besides that, I had read most of the books at the Columbia University Library before I entered Columbia." Kane once told a reporter for The Associated Press, "I'm stupid enough not to believe anything until I see the proof." Kane interviewing for an article for "Liberty" (December 1938) told the interviewer that, "Nobody knew who did it first. The credit always seemed to go to the inventor with the best publicity agent. The little man, too engrossed in his beloved work to advertise his exploits, was simply lost in the shuffle. Kane pointed out in publishing his books that he was not attempting, "to remold public conceptions, but merely to present impartial facts and thus to replace romantic history with commonplace truth. Whenever rival claims have been put forth the one best substantiated has been given credence. Only those 'firsts' for which there are definite records are included; it is possible that further research into hitherto unpublished records may disclose additional data." A reporter for The Times wrote, "The doyen of trivialists, factualists and know-it-alls. Kane regarded himself as a debunker, a campaigner against myth and historical complacency." Kane spent his last years in West Palm Beach, Florida, near his sister, Ann Madier. He suffered a broken hip at age 97, however he continued his work gathering facts. His last project was "Necessity's Child: The Story of Walter Hunt, America's Forgotten Inventor". Kane figured Walter Hunt was really the true inventor of the sewing machine, the fountain pen, and the American safety pin. Kane told Myrna Olive, a reporter for the "Los Angeles Times", on his 100th birthday celebration in 1999 that he attributed his long life to the fact that "I did nothing wrong." Kane died on September 22, 2002, at the age of 103. Kane wrote a total of 46 books including: