Robert Grey Reynolds
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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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Terrorism is not a new issue in France, not by any means. The recent attacks which killed 12 editors and cartoonists at the offices of the French satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo, brings to mind the history of terrorism during the war for Algerian Independence from 1953-1962. In those years France endured a campaign of bombings by the Organisation de l'Armee (OAS), a group formed by dissident French generals. Their ambition was for Algeria to remain...
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Robert Grey Reynolds, Jr
Pub. Date
2016.
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1 online resource
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English
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The Strato-Freight airliner that crashed off the coast of Puerto Rico in June 1949 was a converted army transport C-46. It had once been used to carry fully armed troops. The airline company, based in Connecticut, had added room in the plane to seat more passengers. Four minutes after takeoff the plane crashed off the island's northern coast, a result of a failure of its right engine. My e-book looks at the story of an airline stewardess from Binghamtom,...
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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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Revere Beach and Suffolk County, Massachusetts were baffled about a murder case that happened on their watch on August 21, 1939. A woman's body was seen floating in the morning tide and a woman on shore screamed when she saw the wave battered body. The serenity of the natural beauty of the coastal scenery had been interrupted by a ghastly sight. Persons were interviewed after the body was id'd, yet for days there were no suspects. The woman whose...
64) An American Airlines DC-3 Crashes In The Mississippi River, Memphis, Tennessee, February 10, 1944
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Robert Grey Reynolds, Jr
Pub. Date
2016.
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1 online resource
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English
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An American Airlines transcontinental flight crashed into the Mississippi River near midnight on February 10, 1944. The cause of the crash has never been entirely explained. The Civil Aeronautics Board promised additional investigation into the tragedy but never went through with it. The plane had 24 persons on board, including 12 members of the armed services. The crash occurred some 18 miles from Memphis with the airliner plunging into a 22 foot...
Author
Publisher
Robert Grey Reynolds, Jr
Pub. Date
2015.
Physical Desc
1 online resource.
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English
Description
Major League Baseball, the Philadelphia Phillies and the Philadelphia Police Department have kept hidden a dark secret since 1959. During August 1959 an 18-year-old prostitute came forward with an allegation that she had been solicited by three major leaguers for sex. The sexual contact occurred in the upper floors of the Moonglo Cafe' which was sometimes referred to as a hotel and supper club. One of the establishment's owners had propositioned the...
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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Jack Sharkey fought Primo Carnera at Ebbets Field in Brooklyn in 1931. His left hook decked the Italian giant and he won the bout comfortably. Several years later the two boxers met again, this time at the Garden Bowl in Long Island City. Many things had changed between the two fights. Carnera was fighting to take the heavyweight boxing title from the Boston fighter of Lithuanian descent in the second bout. Perhaps most importantly the big second...
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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June Byers came into female wrestling in the late 1940s and ended her career in the early 1960s. An aggressive wrestler with a fine build for her sport, she was an all-around athlete originally from Houston, Texas. Her uncle trained her to wrestle and she soon made the necessary contacts to enter the pro ranks. At this time there were not high numbers of women involved in this violent and stigmatized sport. June wrestled regularly and began to accumulate...
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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Joseph Mc Carthy's career in the United States Senate was a tempestuous one to say the least. Elected in 1947 as Republican U.S. Senator from Wisconsin, he is most noted for his campaigns to eliminate Communists from the State Department, the U.S. Army and various government agencies. Many are unaware of his struggles regarding the taxes that he filed beginning in 1943 when he was on leave from his job as a Circuit Court judge from Appleton, Wisconsin....
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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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Caryl Chessman was a car thief in the 1940s. From St. Joseph's, Michigan, many of his father's ancestors settled in Du Page County, Illinois. Chessman's father, Serl was born in Itasca. Caryl Chessman was convicted of two kidnapping charges under California's "Little Lindbergh" Law. The California Penal Code classified the offenses as Section 209s, which were aggravated by forced oral intercourse. For these two crimes, both committed in January 1948,...
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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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Linda Lovelace starred in the most lucrative adult film of all time, Deep Throat (1972). I have traced her maternal and paternal ancestors who came to the United States from Italy, Ireland and England. Linda died in 2002 in Colorado. Her family spread out from several locations in Maine, Massachusetts and Westchester County, New York. I have utilized census records, city directories and obituaries that I have found in newspapers, beginning in the...
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Robert Grey Reynolds, Jr
Pub. Date
2016.
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1 online resource
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English
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Pasqualino Lolordo was an underling of Al Capone who the Chicago crime boss made head of the Unione Sicilliana. Lolordo was murdered in cold blood in his own home one afternoon in 1929 after he and his wife returned from a shopping trip. Two groups of men visited his fashionable northwest Chicago apartment, a group of two followed by three more. The last group met with him in the living room of his home before they shot him while the men were having...
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Robert Grey Reynolds, Jr
Pub. Date
2016.
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1 online resource
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English
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The Potomac River, near where Virginia, West Virginia and Maryland come together, was where the bodies of two young women, ages 16 and 18, were recovered in mid June 1956. The girls disappeared in early June.. They were last seen getting into a blue Ford while waiting for a bus in Beltsville, Maryland. The brother of the teens, Mary Elizabeth Fellers, remembered seeing a young scar faced man who gave him a mean look. The high school students had gotten...
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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Joe Profaci was head of a large empire that centered on olive oil importation. He had briefly become involved in bootlegging in the late 1920s before he was rounded up with other mobsters in a Cleveland hotel in 1928. His Mafia baronage included loan sharking and jukebox rackets. Before the early 1960s the Gallo brothers headed the enforcement wing of Profaci's businesses. Crazy Joe Gallo and his brothers beat jukebox owners into paying tribute to...
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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Don Cockell was ranked 5th in the world among heavyweight boxing contenders when he battled heavyweight champion Rocky Marciano for the title in May 1955. Cockell's record was an uneven one. There were some successes but there were also losses to middleweights, and 5 knockouts by merely average opponents. Even his native British press gave Cockell only a slim chance of putting up a worthy fight, much less winning. Marciano was a powerful opponent,...
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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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Lupe Velez was a vibrant star of motion pictures from the late 1920s until her untimely death in December 1944. Silent film stalwart Douglas Fairbanks gave Lupe her first break in the role of the wild mountain girl in The Gaucho (1927). Velez had little trouble breaking into sound movies when they began to be released in 1929 and 1930. Lupe suffered from being typecast as a hot tamale because of her Latin heritage and Mexican birth. Yet she persevered...
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Robert Grey Reynolds, Jr
Pub. Date
2016.
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1 online resource
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English
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Pretty Boy Floyd was one of the machine gunners who held up a group of lawmen taking a prisoner to Leavenworth Penitentiary in June 1933. From Georgia originally, Charles Floyd was raised in Sallisaw, Oklahoma, the son of a farmer. Floyd began his criminal career by robbing a local post office of $350 in pennies. The morning of June 17th a train arrived in Kansas City carrying Frank "Jelly" Nash. It was met by police and federal agents who planned...
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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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Helen Jewett's murder was the first tabloid sensation. The lurid details of her 1836 hatchet murder were featured in the newspapers of New York City for weeks. The New York Herald of James Gordon Bennett was the most prominent newspaper to cover the story. My work looks at Dorcas Doyen's ancestry. It details the names of her paternal and maternal family members. They came to Franklin County, Maine from New Hampshire. For a time her future looked bright....
78) Enrico Caruso
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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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Enrico Caruso died nearly one hundred years ago yet his legend has continued to grow over what is almost a century. Among his greatest legacies is the hard work ethic that he used to reach the top of his profession as an operatic tenor. His son, Enrico Jr., stressed what a hard worker his father was, and how this enabled him to overcome a "squeaky toned voice". My ebook is taken from research that I did from newspaper interviews with Enrico Caruso...
Author
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Robert Grey Reynolds, Jr
Pub. Date
2016.
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1 online resource
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English
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Carmine and Ralph Palizzano were Italian-Americans who were born in the United States. Both of them served in the U.S. Army during World War II. My e-book looks at their criminal connections and the crimes they committed, primarily in the late 1950s. Both were part of a narcotics case in 1957 in which Mafia Don Vito Genovese was the primary defendant. The Polizzanos received drugs from Genovese and distributed them throughout America via couriers...
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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George Cvek was a congenial drifter and hitchhiker who roamed up and down US Highway 1 from Maine to Washington until he was apprehended in March 1941. Cvek attacked, raped and strangled at least 14 women and perhaps more than 30. A native of Harrisburg, Pennsylvania George Joseph Cvek was the son of Yugoslav and Hungarian immigrants. He was in trouble by the time he was 12. Sent to the Philadelphia Protectory on several occasions Cvek was eventually...