Who Shot the Sheriff
Author : Alice M. Batzel
Publisher : Pioneer Drama Service, Inc.
Page : 48 pages
File Size : 39,66 MB
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Author : Alice M. Batzel
Publisher : Pioneer Drama Service, Inc.
Page : 48 pages
File Size : 39,66 MB
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Author : Phil Roxbee Cox
Publisher : E.D.C. Publishing
Page : 48 pages
File Size : 11,27 MB
Release : 1997-03
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9780881109122
-- Twenty detailed color photographs filled with clues and red herrings-- Exciting and challenging mystery stories with brain teasing puzzles
Author : Nancy Bartley
Publisher : University of Washington Press
Page : 303 pages
File Size : 46,61 MB
Release : 2013-03-01
Category : History
ISBN : 0295804548
In 1931, a 12-year-old boy shot and killed the sheriff of Asotin, Washington. The incident stunned the small town and a mob threatened to hang him. Both the crime and Herbert Niccolls's eventual sentence of life imprisonment at the Washington State Penitentiary in Walla Walla drew national attention, only to be buried later in local archives. Journalist Nancy Bartley has conducted extensive research to construct a compelling narrative of the events and characters that make this a unique episode in the history of criminal justice in the United States. Niccolls became a cause for Father Flanagan of Boys Town,who took to the airwaves, imploring listeners to write Governor Hartley on the boy's behalf. The bitter campaign put Hartley in such a negative light that he lost his bid for reelection. Under a new and progressive warden, Niccolls thrived in prison. Inmates like physician Peter Miller and literary agent James Ashe became his tutors, finding that Niccolls had an insatiable appetite for knowledge. During the deadly 1934 prison riot at Walla Walla, several prisoners kept him from harm. Niccolls was finally released from prison in his early twenties. He went to work at 20th Century Fox in Hollywood, where he kept his secret for the rest of his long life. The Boy Who Shot the Sheriff explores this little-known story of a young boy's fate in the juvenile justice system during the bloodiest years in the nation's penitentiaries. Watch the trailer: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jRKFFQDgW20&list=UUge4MONgLFncQ1w1C_BnHcw&index=6&feature=plcp
Author : J. Fred MacDonald
Publisher : Greenwood
Page : 184 pages
File Size : 18,15 MB
Release : 1987
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
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This intriguing book is a study of the rise and fall of an American genre of entertainment and communication whose symbols and rhetoric helped define American society for decades. Flourishing in the 1950s and 1960s, the television Western has deteriorated to the point where it is now irrelevant and meaningless. Tracing the evolution of the Western from the late 1940s to the 1980s, the author ties the genre to the political innocence and confidence of the Cold War years and suggests that the social reevaluations that began in the 1960s undermined the believability of Westerns and their entertainment value. Seeking to understand the demise of the TV Western, the book offers an analysis of the interrelationships between popular culture, television, and sociopolitical development in the United States during the past four decades.
Author : Jacqueline Rayner
Publisher :
Page : 140 pages
File Size : 17,3 MB
Release : 2006-10
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9781405903202
A range of new novels based on the new BBC serialisation of Robin Hood, stating on television Autumn 2006. Includes an 8 page colour section.
Author : Thomas Weeks
Publisher :
Page : pages
File Size : 17,45 MB
Release : 2002-03
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ISBN : 9780883687550
Author : Marlon James
Publisher : Riverhead Books
Page : 706 pages
File Size : 43,5 MB
Release : 2015-09-08
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1594633940
A tale inspired by the 1976 attempted assassination of Bob Marley spans decades and continents to explore the experiences of journalists, drug dealers, killers, and ghosts against a backdrop of social and political turmoil.
Author : Wayne Skarka
Publisher : Black Rose Writing
Page : 221 pages
File Size : 11,5 MB
Release : 2013-05-10
Category : True Crime
ISBN : 1935605321
Before Crime Scene: The Texas Killing Fields on Netflix, there was The Sheriff's Son - a potential suspect for the League City murders. This true story begins on Valentine's Day, 1961. 14 years old, Claudette Carolyn Covey went missing from Hondo, Texas. On Halloween evening, 1961, Claudette's remains were discovered eight miles from town in a field. She had been shot twice in the head. From the beginning, town folks believed that she was murdered by the corrupt sheriff or his 18-year-old son, whom she was dating. Because of the corrupt sheriff's influence, no one was ever charged with the murder. The story follows the life of the sheriff's son from 1961 to his death in 1998. The son was on the edges of many similar murders of young girls in the Houston and Galveston areas-but he was never charged. After 1961, the sheriff's son was arrested twice for the rape of 12-year-old girls, essentially walking away from these charges due to the connections of his father. After the deaths of the father and son, former wives and step children, no longer terrified-came forward. They tell a horrific story of brutality, rape, incest and murder at the hands of the son. Our novel connects the dots and makes the case that a serial killer went to his grave never charged with his many crimes against young women.
Author : Roger Steffens
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
Page : 388 pages
File Size : 39,18 MB
Release : 2017-07-11
Category : Music
ISBN : 0393634795
“Reggae’s chief eyewitness, dropping testimony on reggae’s chief prophet with truth, blood, and fire.” —Marlon James, Man Booker Prize–winning author Renowned reggae historian Roger Steffens’s riveting oral history of Bob Marley’s life draws on four decades of intimate interviews with band members, family, lovers, and confidants—many speaking publicly for the first time. Hailed by the New York Times Book Review as a “crucial voice” in the documentation of Marley’s legacy, Steffens spent years traveling with the Wailers and taking iconic photographs. Through eyewitness accounts of vivid scenes—the future star auditioning for Coxson Dodd; the violent confrontation between the Wailers and producer Lee Perry; the attempted assassination (and conspiracy theories that followed); the artist’s tragic death from cancer—So Much Things to Say tells Marley’s story like never before. What emerges is a legendary figure “who feels a bit more human” (The New Yorker).
Author : Ruth E. Mather
Publisher :
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 35,51 MB
Release : 1987
Category : Biography & Autobiography
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