Joe Paterno was the head football coach at Penn State when Mike McQueary, his assistant coach, confided in him that he had witnessed Jerry Sandusky molest an underage boy in the locker rooms one evening in February 2001. Paterno passed along McQueary’s admission to his boss, Tim Curley, Penn State’s athletic director. When an investigation into Sandusky’s behavior finally began in 2011, uproar over Paterno’s alleged failure to take the allegations seriously forced him to resign.