Book Description

Public attention and scrutiny has dimmed following most of these notable, tragic and publicized events, deaths and murders. Each included historical profile spawns a secondary tale concerning the surviving victims, intimate family coping with loss and the consequential aftermath. The edition highlights sixty momentous and obscure calamities and their profound effect on those left behind. In some instances the immediate trauma and impact has become lethal. In other instances, the road towards recovery has generated a profound influence on others. These accompanying survivor biographies are equally compelling and represent an important continuity to a larger perspective of understanding. Volume One is a compilation of sixty combined well-documented and obscure biographies. They include: Jimi Hendrix’s Accidental Overdose and The Sole Witness James Dean’s Fatal Collision and the Two Survivors The Decadent Decline of Doors’ Lead Singer Jim Morrison and his companion Pam Courson The Zodiac Serial Killer: Taunting Authorities Lady Diana Spencer’s Fatal Paris Crash Ted Bundy: The Man Who Lived To Kill Women Singer Kurt Cobain’s Prelude and Final Act Actor Errol Flynn’s Final Debauchery Gangster Al Capone’s desperate venereal disease treatment and his Chicago Outfit gang The Washington D.C. Beltway Victims and Survivors The Enduring Art Legacy of Pablo Picasso Gary Hart’s Aborted Presidential Campaign Writer Oscar Wilde’s fall and the Consequences To His Immediate Family The Curse That Befell Abraham Lincoln’s box office companions following his assassination The Green River Killer and His Naive Wife The Corruptible Legacy of the Marquis de Sade and his wife’s penitence The Two Wives Behind Napoleon Bonaparte’s Rise and Fall and his son The Celebrated Trip to Return To America and Return to France by General Lafayette Congressman Daniel Sickles Killing Inside Washington D.C.’s Lafayette Park over his wife’s Infidelity The Unmarked Grave For Assassin John Wilkes Booth Marion Clover Adams cursed by the constraints of her gender and husband Writer Henry Adams Theo and Johanna Van Gogh’s Contribution to making Vincent Van Gogh internationally renowned The Adventurous Fury and Flameout of Writer Jack London and wife Charmian Kittredge-London The Debilitating Demise of Woodrow Wilson and his surviving wife Edith Bolling-Wilson The Biddle Brothers Pittsburgh Prison Escape and Accomplice Kate Soffel Murderous Revenge and Suicides Spawned By The Brides of Christ Cult The Duchess of Windsor’s Upbringing and life following the death of King Edward VIII A Tragic Bohemian Amedeo Modigliani and his distraught Mistress Jeanne Hebuterne President Warren Harding and his vindictive wife Florence The Philosophical Contraction of Jean-Paul Sartre and Literary Comrade Simone de Beauvoir Gertrude Stein’s Fawning Over Nazism and her neglected companion Alice B. Toklas The Pathetic Final Acts For F. Scott Fitzgerald and wife Zelda FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover and his intimate Associate Clyde Tolson American Wartime Spy Virginia Hall’s Posthumous Recognition Yves Klein Obsession With Cobalt Blue and Fatal Film Viewing Edwin Pratt’s Seattle Civil Rights Murder Presidential Campaigner George Wallace’s Wounding and Survival Bruce and Brandon Lee’s Youthful Stolen Legacies Spiro Agnew’s Vice Presidential Resignation Dr. Marcus Foster Assassination and Aide Robert Blackburn’s survival The Zebra Killings: A Racially Intended Genocide? A Classic Mob Contract Killing Of Tamara Rand A Baltimore City Councilman’s Death Amidst A Shooting Rampage Diane Downs: A Sordid Mother’s Shooting of Her Children Mulugeta Seraw fatal beating by Portland skinheads Doug Carlile’s Murder For Hire Over Oil Field Leases Brittany Maynard’s Death With Dignity Crusade and Aftermath And Numerous Additional Stories…