Robert Grey Reynolds
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Publisher
Robert Grey Reynolds, Jr
Pub. Date
2016.
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1 online resource
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English
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My e-book considers possible connections between the murder of gambler Arnold Rothstein, the St. Valentine's Day Massacre in Chicago of 1929, and other gangland slayings. Rothstein's was killed in November 1928. A succession of murders followed including the Coral Gables, Florida murder of Fatty Walsh, formerly Rothstein's bodyguard. Were there connections? Sleuths of true crime in the 1920s and 1930s believed there were. My book looks at the Seabury...
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Robert Grey Reynolds, Jr
Pub. Date
2015.
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1 online resource.
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English
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Baron Wolfgang von Trips was a German nobleman from the Rhineland of Germany. He gave up his castle and privileged life to enter the sport of Formula One racing in the mid 1950s. By September 1961 he was on the threshold of winning the Formula One World Championship, as a driver of a Ferrari. Trips also ran at Le Mans, Rio de Janeiro, Mexico, Nassau in the Bahamas, and many other sports car tracks. He competed in a Porsche at the Le Mans, France 24...
Author
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Robert Grey Reynolds, Jr
Pub. Date
2016.
Physical Desc
1 online resource
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English
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Verne Sankey had a job as a railroad engineer in Canada before he became a bootlegger and then a kidnapper. Born in Pottawatamie County, Iowa, Sankey lived in South Dakota. Later he maintained a hideout near Mitchell, SD where he kept one of his captives away from the law. Sankey was caught in Chicago by a combined effort of local law enforcement and the G-Men of Melvin Purvis and J. Edgar Hoover. When he was arrested he had duped a 23-year-old woman...
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Robert Grey Reynolds, Jr
Pub. Date
2014.
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1 online resource.
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English
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UFOs were reported in western New York with great frequency beginning in 1965. The towns of Parma and West Sparta in Livingston County were nightly hotspots for UFO observation. People drove their in large numbers. It was said that one was lucky to find space to park an auto during the evenings, for a time. My e-book describes UFO sightings in Dansville and Gloversville in 1966 and 1967, objects that were observed in Rensselaer and Saratoga Counties...
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Robert Grey Reynolds, Jr
Pub. Date
2013.
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1 online resource
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English
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Mary Rogers and her mother, Phebe, came to New York City following the financial panic of 1837. Phebe lost her second husband and also her most important source of economic support, id est Daniel and James Rogers. Both men were killed in shipwrecks. Daniel died on the Mississippi River and James in Long Island Sound. Phebe and Mary came to the teeming metropolis of New York City to better their fortunes. Mary went to work at a tobacco emporium operated...
Author
Publisher
Robert Grey Reynolds, Jr
Pub. Date
2015.
Physical Desc
1 online resource.
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English
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Waxey Gordon's beer empire extended throughout upstate New York, into Pennsylvania and to several New Jersey counties. It even reached as far as St. Louis and Chicago in the midwest. Gordon was raised in a tenement on Manhattan's East Side. He grew up thudding and became a pickpocket. He was an active member of one of several rival gangs there. Waxey's beer distribution was centered in Elmira, where the racketeer had once been imprisoned in a reformatory....
Author
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Robert Grey Reynolds, Jr
Pub. Date
2013.
Physical Desc
1 online resource
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English
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Charles Manson has been studied from many perspectives by authors, especially those that have looked closely at the mind control he has used to manipulate his followers. I have read with avid interest a number of these works over the years. My book begins with his birth certificate, which was difficult for researchers to gain access to because of the misspelling of his mother's surname. After recording various facts from this document, I branched...
Author
Publisher
Robert Grey Reynolds, Jr
Pub. Date
2015.
Physical Desc
1 online resource.
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English
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Tampa, Florida became a hotbed of gambling and mobster activity by the 1930s. In April 1938 nine of its city and Hillsborough County officials were indicted by a local grand jury. In 1949 Florida Governor Fuller Warren closed down gambling joints statewide about a month after he was elected. The Tampa problem was magnified by the prevalence of both Cuban and Italian/Sicilian Mafioso. By the early 1950s Tampa's population was well above 100,000 of...
Author
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Robert Grey Reynolds, Jr
Pub. Date
2016.
Physical Desc
1 online resource
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English
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Principal Keeper George Adam Durnford was murdered during a prison riot at Auburn State Prison in Upstate New York in December 1929. Beginning in February 1930 convict Max Becker was tried for Durnford's slaying. Becker was a habitual criminal who came to Auburn following a stint in Elmira Reformatory. My e-book considers testimony from wardens and prisoners who were present during the uprising. Becker was defended by Brooklyn Defense Attorney Samuel...
Author
Publisher
Robert Grey Reynolds, Jr
Pub. Date
2016.
Physical Desc
1 online resource
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English
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The DC3 airliner that crashed into 2,000 foot Mt. Torment in Quebec on September 9, 1949 was destined for Baie Comeau. On board were 19 passengers and a crew of four. One of the passengers, Rita Guay, was the wife of a Quebec City jeweler who had taken out a $10,000 life insurance policy on her two days before takeoff. Rita was unaware that her husband was trying to get rid of her in order to pursue a teenage waitress with whom he was carrying on...
Author
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Robert Grey Reynolds, Jr
Pub. Date
2014.
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1 online resource.
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English
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Mike De John came from a family of boxers in Syracuse, New York. His brother, Joey, was a popular middleweight in the 1950s, as had been his brother Ralph in the late 1930s. Another brother, Johnny, managed Mike for the better part of his boxing career. Mike gained an early unexpected victory with a first round knockout of Argentine contender Alex Miteff in 1957. An inability to follow up this key victory, and losses to other contenders for the heavyweight...
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Robert Grey Reynolds, Jr
Pub. Date
2016.
Physical Desc
1 online resource
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English
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The Castellammarese War involved two ambitious rivals who vowed to become the Boss of Bosses in New York City. Salvatore Maranzano was a very sophisticated Sicilian who spoke seven languages and looked more like a banker than a mobster. Giuseppe Masseria was a crude figure who had became Boss after taking over the old Morello crime syndicate. By early 1931 Masseria defections combined with the attrition of Masseria followers made Maranzano the favorite...
Author
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Robert Grey Reynolds, Jr
Pub. Date
2015.
Physical Desc
1 online resource.
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English
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Bobby Baker was a smooth operator in many areas of the political spectrum. He procured women for politicians, invested in exorbitant land and real estate deals, and often double crossed the friends who put money into the projects with him. The Bobby Baker affair unraveled beginning with a civil suit brought by a fellow South Carolinian. The offended party accused Baker of failure to hold a vending company franchise for him despite him having made...
Author
Publisher
Robert Grey Reynolds, Jr
Pub. Date
2015.
Physical Desc
1 online resource.
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English
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Dutch Schultz made the big time of racketeers when he entered the business of speakeasies. From a respectable Bronx family Schultz served time on Roosevelt Island for a minor offense that he committed in 1919. When he was paroled he got into speakeasies, partnering with James Noe after a brief stint in larceny with Legs Diamond. Noe was shot and killed several months later and Dutch Schultz took over the business, and expanded his liquor racket within...
Author
Publisher
Robert Grey Reynolds, Jr
Pub. Date
2014.
Physical Desc
1 online resource.
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English
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The National Football League expanded in 1960 and 1961, adding two teams that would be an incremental part of the NFL in years to come. The Dallas Cowboys came first followed by the Minnesota Vikings who began their first season in September 1961. There were some differences in the expansions as they were applied to the new two teams. These differences are one of the subjects of my ebook. Neither team did very well to begin with but the Vikings surprised...
Author
Publisher
Robert Grey Reynolds, Jr
Pub. Date
2015.
Physical Desc
1 online resource.
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English
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The huge KLM Super Constellation with its 4 propeller driven engines crashed into the Atlantic Ocean around dawn on August 14, 1958. The plane's flight originated in Amsterdam and the difficulty began soon after a stopover for refueling in Shannon, Ireland. My e-book looks at the likely reasons that the giant aircraft came down suddenly, and with little warning, descending two miles very rapidly, and belly flopping into the ocean about 50 miles west...
Author
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Robert Grey Reynolds, Jr
Pub. Date
2016.
Physical Desc
1 online resource
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English
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Nathan Kaplan, also known as Kid Dropper, was one of a number of powerful gangsters who were active in the pre-Prohibition era of New York City history. He was probably the most noteworthy racketeer at the outset of the 1920s. He acquired his nickname by running a scam that conned people into buying a wallet that he had found in a puddle of water. He asked only that he be paid a reasonable amount because it had money inside and he had decided against...
Author
Publisher
Robert Grey Reynolds, Jr
Pub. Date
2016.
Physical Desc
1 online resource
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English
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Paolo Antonio Vaccarelli aka Paul Kelly was a notorious gang leader in New York City beginning in the 1890s. The son of Italian immigrants he legally changed his name to Paul Kelly when he became involved in political and labor issues that concerned the Irish population of the city. Kelly propped up crooked politicians like Big Tim Sullivan by rigging elections in their favor. In return the pols protected the gangs by ensuring them that police would...
Author
Publisher
Robert Grey Reynolds, Jr
Pub. Date
2015.
Physical Desc
1 online resource.
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English
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A plane crash in the Portuguese Azores in October 1949 was devastating to the worlds of boxing and concert music. The tragedy took the life of Marcel Cerdan, a former middleweight champion and the most talented and revered French athlete of the post World War II era. Ginette Neveu, a violin virtuoso and former teen prodigy also died on the Lockheed L-749 Constellation. My e-book discusses the causes of the event in which the plane crashed against...
20) Alberto Ascari
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Robert Grey Reynolds, Jr
Pub. Date
2015.
Physical Desc
1 online resource.
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English
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Alberto Ascari was an elite driver for the Ferari and Maserati factory teams during the early days of Formula One racing. He captured the F1 championship in back to back years, 1952 and 1953. Ascari also competed successfully in motorcycle racing in his youth and won the Italian Mille Miglia race in 1954. Grand Prix racing in its early days had more attrition among its drivers than it does today. Numerous famous racers were killed during competition....