George "Machine Gun" Kelly (Barnes) Summary
Author | : United States. Federal Bureau of Investigation |
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Release | : 2001 |
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Author | : Bruce Barnes |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 272 |
Release | : 1992-05-01 |
Genre | : Crime |
ISBN | : 9780963260901 |
Bruce Barnes wrote his father's biography after a lifetime of crass questions from inconsiderate people, the only way to dispel the myths surrounding Machine Gun Kelly. Even the F.B.I. files do not contain accurate information regarding his personal life & many exploits. Contrary to public opinion he was not a stereotype of the uneducated, poverty stricken bank robber drawn into a life of crime due to a squalid childhood. Born George F. Barnes Jr., Machine Gun Kelly grew up in an upper middle class family, finished high school & attended Mississippi A & M. He married Geneva Ramsey, the oldest daughter of millionaire contractor George F. Ramsey, when he was nineteen & Geneva was two months shy of her eighteenth birthday. George lived a flawless life, working for Mr. Ramsey until his father-in-law was killed in a dynamite explosion. George slowly reverted to the dual life he indulged in as a youth - bootlegger, bank robber, & ultimately kidnapper. Along with his third wife Kathryn, & partner in crime Al Bator, George kidnapped oil millionaire Charles Urscholl of Oklahoma. The latter exploit led to the trio's incarceration for life & prison sentences for innocent family members.
Author | : Anna Hamilton Phelan |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 230 |
Release | : 1991 |
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Author | : Patrick ODaniel |
Publisher | : Univ. Press of Mississippi |
Total Pages | : 313 |
Release | : 2018-11-26 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 149682007X |
Prohibition, with all its crime, corruption, and cultural upheaval, ran its course after thirteen years in most of the rest of the country—but not in Memphis, where it lasted thirty years. Patrick O’Daniel takes a fresh look at those responsible for the rise and fall of Prohibition, its effect on Memphis, and the impact events in the city made on the rest of the state and country. Prohibition remains perhaps the most important issue to affect Memphis after the Civil War. It affected politics, religion, crime, the economy, and health, along with race and class. In Memphis, bootlegging bore a particular character shaped by its urban environment and the rural background of the city’s inhabitants. Religious fundamentalists and the Ku Klux Klan supported Prohibition, while the rebellious youth of the Jazz Age fought against it. Poor and working-class people took the brunt of Prohibition, while the wealthy skirted the law. Like the War on Drugs today, African Americans, immigrants, and poor whites made easy targets for law enforcement due to their lack of resources and effective legal counsel. Based on news reports and documents, O’Daniel’s lively account distills long-forgotten gangsters, criminal organizations, and crusaders whose actions shaped the character of Memphis well into the twentieth century.
Author | : Joe Urschel |
Publisher | : Macmillan + ORM |
Total Pages | : 318 |
Release | : 2015-09-08 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 1250020808 |
It's 1933 and Prohibition has given rise to the American gangster--now infamous names like Bonnie and Clyde and John Dillinger. Bank robberies at gunpoint are commonplace and kidnapping for ransom is the scourge of a lawless nation. With local cops unauthorized to cross state lines in pursuit and no national police force, safety for kidnappers is just a short trip on back roads they know well from their bootlegging days. Gangster George "Machine Gun" Kelly and his wife, Kathryn, are some of the most celebrated criminals of the Great Depression. With gin-running operations facing extinction and bank vaults with dwindling stores of cash, Kelly sets his sights on the easy-money racket of kidnapping. His target: rich oilman, Charles Urschel. Enter J. Edgar Hoover, a desperate Justice Department bureaucrat who badly needs a successful prosecution to impress the new administration and save his job. Hoover's agents are given the sole authority to chase kidnappers across state lines and when Kelly bungles the snatch job, Hoover senses his big opportunity. What follows is a thrilling 20,000 mile chase over the back roads of Depression-era America, crossing 16 state lines, and generating headlines across America along the way--a historical mystery/thriller for the ages. Joe Urschel's The Year of Fear is a thrilling true crime story of gangsters and lawmen and how an obscure federal bureaucrat used this now legendary kidnapping case to launch the FBI.
Author | : Wilbur R. Miller |
Publisher | : SAGE |
Total Pages | : 2713 |
Release | : 2012-08-10 |
Genre | : Business & Economics |
ISBN | : 1412988764 |
This comprehensive and authoratative four-volume work surveys the history and philosophy of crime, punishment, and criminal justice institutions in America from colonial times to the present.
Author | : J.D. Valens |
Publisher | : Lulu.com |
Total Pages | : 41 |
Release | : 2014-01-14 |
Genre | : Education |
ISBN | : 130480660X |
This book goes into deep detail of how Alcatraz was created, who was sent there, who were the top criminals locked up at Alcatraz, the number of men that were killed there and much more History behind the walls of Alcatraz.
Author | : Michael Newton |
Publisher | : McFarland |
Total Pages | : 449 |
Release | : 2015-06-08 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 1476604177 |
The Federal Bureau of Investigation, America's most famous law enforcement agency, was established in 1908 and ever since has been the subject of countless books, articles, essays, congressional investigations, television programs and motion pictures--but even so it remains an enigma to many, deliberately shrouded in mystery on the basis of privacy or national security concerns. This encyclopedia has entries on a broad range of topics related to the FBI, including biographical sketches of directors, agents, attorneys general, notorious fugitives, and people (well known and unknown) targeted by the FBI; events, cases and investigations such as ILLWIND, ABSCAM and Amerasia; FBI terminology and programs such as COINTELPRO and VICAP; organizations marked for disruption including the KGB and the Ku Klux Klan; and various general topics such as psychological profiling, fingerprinting and electronic surveillance. It begins with a brief overview of the FBI's origins and history.
Author | : Bryan Denson |
Publisher | : Roaring Brook Press |
Total Pages | : 131 |
Release | : 2020-06-23 |
Genre | : Juvenile Nonfiction |
ISBN | : 1250199301 |
Uncovering a Terrorist is the story of the FBI's investigation of Mohamed Mohamud led by Agent Ryan Dwyer, the agent who helped bring him to justice, creating room for the conversation surrounding religious terrorism and its effects around the world. Mohamed Osman Mohamud was an American citizen, a college student at Oregon State University, and a wannabe terrorist. His dream was to go to Yemen, train with al-Qaeda, and travel to Afghanistan to kill U.S. soldiers. But first, he plotted to detonate a massive bomb at a Christmas tree lighting ceremony in downtown Portland. Agent Ryan Dwyer ran the sting operation to see how serious Mohamed was. He and an Arabic-speaking partner, joined by FBI personnel—including two undercover operatives posing as al-Qaeda terrorists—worked month after month to get to know him and keep the people of Portland safe. Go behind the scences of some of the FBI's most interesting cases in award-winning journalist Bryan Denson's FBI Files series, featuring the investigations of the Unabomber, Russian spy Rick Ames, and Michael Young's diamong theft ring. Each book includes photographs, a glossary, a note from the author, and other detailed backmatter on the subject of the investigation.
Author | : Douglas Perry |
Publisher | : Penguin |
Total Pages | : 362 |
Release | : 2015-03-31 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 0143126288 |
The story of Eliot Ness, the legendary lawman who led the Untouchables, took on Al Capone, and saved a city’s soul As leader of an unprecedented crime-busting squad, twenty-eight-year-old Eliot Ness won fame for taking on notorious mobster Al Capone. But the Untouchables’ daring raids were only the beginning of Ness’s unlikely story. This new biography grapples with the charismatic lawman’s complicated, largely forgotten legacy. Perry chronicles Ness’s days in Chicago as well as his spectacular second act in Cleveland, where he achieved his greatest success: purging the profoundly corrupt city and forging new practices that changed police work across the country. He also faced one of his greatest challenges: a mysterious serial killer known as the Torso Murderer. Capturing the first complete portrait of the real Eliot Ness, Perry brings to life an unorthodox man who believed in the integrity of law and the power of American justice.