Download or read book Denville 13 The Murder Redemption and Forgiveness in Small Town New Jersey written by Peter Zablocki and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2021 with total page 112 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Denville in the 1950s was an idyllic place to live, yet a dark chapter in the era's history has remained uncovered. During the summer of 1953, a wealthy traveler with a secret rap sheet as a convicted sex offender arrived in town to continue his misdeeds. A group of thirteen local boys ranging in age from fourteen to twenty-two took it upon themselves to teach the man a lesson and drive him out of town. What resulted was his brutal death and the largest number of people ever indicted for murder in the nation at the time. The harrowing trial and its aftermath revealed a town forced to grapple with how to protect its youth and come to terms with the gruesome incident. Local historian Peter Zablocki covers the crime and a small town's path to redemption.
Download or read book Terror over Elizabeth New Jersey written by Peter Zablocki and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2021-11-22 with total page 107 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With safety protocols in their infancy and the jet engine still in development, early commercial flight above American cities was too often deadly. Between December 1951 and January 1952, three separate plane crashes barreled down onto Elizabeth, New Jersey. Many dozens perished as the crashes destroyed entire city blocks and wreaked havoc throughout various neighborhoods. Frightened residents turned to the nearby Newark Airport for blame as a groundswell of political pushback occurred in an ultimately unsuccessful bid to stop the airport's expansion. President Truman formed an airport safety commission in response that recommended better zoning around airports and runways. Author Peter Zablocki tells the harrowing story of one of the most unique and tragic series of plane crashes in the nation's history.
Download or read book Denville in World War II written by Peter Zablocki and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2021-08-16 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The bucolic small-town life of Denville in the 1940s would change forever with the outbreak of World War II. After the attack on Pearl Harbor, the town mobilized, creating the Denville Local Defense Council, designating air wardens to watch the skies and establishing air raid sirens. Schoolchildren gathered around home radios to learn if there were enough supplies to heat the school, and families learned to live within the confines of a ration book. The Denville Salvage Committee proclaimed "Bomb 'em with Junk!" as it collected waste goods for the war effort. Hundreds of Denville men served valiantly in all theaters of the war, some earning prestigious military accolades and many tragically never returning. Author Peter Zablocki covers the history of World War II Denville, including interviews with members of the town's "Greatest Generation."
Download or read book Stories of Slavery in New Jersey written by Rick Geffken and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2021 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Dutch and English settlers brought the first enslaved people to New Jersey in the seventeenth century. By the time of the Revolutionary War, slavery was an established practice on labor-intensive farms throughout what became known as the Garden State. The progenitor of the influential Morris family, Lewis Morris, brought Barbadian slaves to toil on his estate of Tinton Manor in Monmouth County. Colonel Tye, an escaped slave from Shrewsbury, joined the British Ethiopian Regiment during the Revolutionary War and led raids throughout the towns and villages near his former home. Charles Reeves and Hannah Van Clief married soon after their emancipation in 1850 and became prominent citizens of Lincroft, as did their next four generations. Author Rick Geffken reveals stories from New Jersey's dark history of slavery.
Download or read book Kent State written by Deborah Wiles and published by Scholastic Inc.. This book was released on 2020-04-21 with total page 129 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From two-time National Book Award finalist Deborah Wiles, a masterpiece exploration of one of the darkest moments in our history, when American troops killed four American students protesting the Vietnam War. May 4, 1970. Kent State University. As protestors roil the campus, National Guardsmen are called in. In the chaos of what happens next, shots are fired and four students are killed. To this day, there is still argument of what happened and why. Told in multiple voices from a number of vantage points -- protestor, Guardsman, townie, student -- Deborah Wiles's Kent State gives a moving, terrifying, galvanizing picture of what happened that weekend in Ohio . . . an event that, even 50 years later, still resonates deeply.
Download or read book The Gift written by Bryan M. Litfin and published by Crossway. This book was released on 2011-03-31 with total page 418 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Chiveis Trilogy takes readers hundreds of years into the future. War and disease have destroyed civilization as we know it. Much technology has been discarded and history is largely forgotten. Slowly, the few survivors have begun to build new communities, and kingdoms now prosper in a kind of feudal order. But the Word of God has been lost for centuries. After the finding of an Old Testament in book one of the trilogy, The Gift picks up the story of Teo and Ana. Exiled from their homeland and trying to survive in unknown and dangerous lands, they search for any record of the missing Testament. Their journeys lead them into the region we know as Italy. An elite society welcomes Ana, who finds she must choose between her new life and her dream of returning to Chiveis. Will Teo and Ana’s relationship withstand the circumstances and new enemies pulling them apart? And can Teo keep ahead of a powerful and mysterious force opposing his search for the New Testament? Litfin’s imagination and fast-paced narrative style will capture the hearts and minds of all fiction readers.
Download or read book Bloodcaine written by Robert Vidal and published by . This book was released on 2004-06-01 with total page 2224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: I had no dreams of ever joining the United States's 1.66 million prisoner population, nor a vision of being a notorious drug kingpin or a recruited hitman (when I was honorably discharged from our powerful US Navy). Yet in my own lust for a better financial life status, I put myself in what I call today "the devil's playground." My new job as a chauffeur and bodyguard led me almost to death row. In the pursuit of riches, I tangled myself in a net filled with violence, shoot-outs, betrayals and murder. My life was spared, thanks to the fervent prayer of my dear mother, from numerous contracts on my life. As I stood before the justice tollbooth, seeking justice, mercy was granted and after serving 12 years in the Bureau of Prisons, I returned to society with the knowledge of the true riches of this life! Then the material things that I wanted were granted through my two successful businesses, "The Gifted Cutters Barbershops." To GOD be the glory! This is a true story. Over fifteen murders are mentioned and the names have not been changed. Warning: this book will inspire you to never give up. "God's help is within you." SAY NO TO DRUGS OR DRUGS WILL SAY NO TO YOU! - Robert Vidal. A Great Inspiration After reading this book, I wanted to share Robert's experiences with my seventh grade students. Robert writes that he wants to 'save [schoolchildren] from the life that [he] lived and warn them of the dangers of drugs.' Robert accomplished this goal by speaking to 160 of my seventh grade students and making them realize that a life of drugs and violence is not as glamorous as they might believe. My students were so amazed by Robert's speech that they wrote him letters to thank him for sharing his story. I look forward to having Robert speak to more students, in hopes that he can help influence them into choosing the right path in life. - Christina Silveria Vidal 's story=A blockbuster motion picture!... The book was recommended by a good friend of my--who Knew Vidal during those scarface days, and who still keeps in touch today with him.(He told me after reading the book-- that Vidal left out more than sixty percent of other crimes and related stories.) Vidal's story is a rollercoaster ride in the world of crime, power, sex and $money. WOW! This story belongs in the big screens. ASAP! - Mike Garcia, April 3, 2003 An insider's view of a so-called glamorous life It was a quick and interesting read, and really showed the nasty insider view of a so-called glamorous life. I'm happy that Robert was able to survive all of that and turn his life around. He is truly blessed to be alive. His story should be turned into a screenplay and get some big screen exposure. It is a life lesson that would hopefully help others to steer clear of the wrong path in life. - N Chavez, January 21, 2003 A MUST READ! HIS STORY IS SHOCKING, MOVING, INSPIRATIONAL... A REAL LIFE TONY SOPRANO MEETS HIS DESTINY AND RETURNS TO SOCIETY WITH ALL THE GOOD HUMAN NATURE HAS TO OFFER. THIS WILL MAKE A EXCELLENT MOVIE! This book is a must read- for anyone who is caught-up in the world of crime and violence--that there is a way out.... Reading Vidal's story of complete transformation of where he "was" and where he is "today"--is a true miracle! EXCELLENT!! GREAT JOB! GREAT READING! - J. Guzman, November 7, 2002 I first met Robert in East Side High school,in Newark NJ. We got along but weren't close friends then. Our neighborhood was called the Ironbound. As the name suggests,that section of Newark was separated the rest of the city and other towns by rail and the Newark Bay. So we for the most part had little interaction with the rest of Newark, and neighboring communities. This forged bonds of friendship and personal loyalties that went beyond casual. As we got ol
Download or read book Vinnitta The Birth of the Detroit Mafia written by Daniel Waugh and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2019-04-04 with total page 512 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the Author of Off Color: The Violent History of Detroit's Notorious Purple Gang It was the winter of 1919, and it was the height of a gang war the Motor City hadn't seen before. Detroit's Mafia family had split into two factions, both vying to not only avenge ancient wrongs but also gain control of the city's lucrative illegal alcohol trade at the dawn of Prohibition. In Vìnnitta, author Daniel Waugh offers an in-depth account of the formation of the Detroit Mafia and how they grew from a small band of Sicilian immigrants into one of the most powerful criminal sects. He shares how the mafia infiltrated the Detroit business community and established themselves in illegal rackets ranging from extortion, auto theft, bootlegging, burglary, and construction racketeering. The story is told through the eyes of not only the gangsters themselves, but also those of an undertaker forced to prepare many of his friends for burial after their murders.
Download or read book The Stephen McDonald Story written by Steven McDonald and published by . This book was released on 1991-04 with total page 372 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Two Kenricks written by John Joseph O'Shea and published by . This book was released on 1904 with total page 528 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Orthodox Way written by Kallistos (Bishop of Diokleia) and published by St Vladimir's Seminary Press. This book was released on 1979 with total page 168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First published in 1979.
Download or read book Deep Water written by Kenneth M. Sheldon and published by Down East Books. This book was released on 2022-06-15 with total page 393 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the waning days of World War I, William K. Dean was brutally murdered, his body hog-tied and dumped in a rainwater cistern on his farm in the quiet town of Jaffrey, New Hampshire. Suspicion quickly fell on Dean's wife, an invalid in the early stages of dementia. Her friends, outraged at the accusations, pointed instead to a former tenant of Dean’s, whom many suspected of being a German spy. Others believed that Dean's best friend, a politically powerful banker and judge, was involved. Deep Water is based on extensive research into the Dean murder, including thousands of pages of FBI documents, Grand Jury testimonies, newspaper accounts, private correspondence, and the archives of the Jaffrey Historical Society.
Download or read book Ways of Russian Theology written by Georges Florovsky and published by . This book was released on 1979 with total page 450 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book Chiveis Trilogy 3 Volume Set written by Bryan M. Litfin and published by . This book was released on 2012-06-30 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: All three books in the Chiveis Trilogy are now available as a complete set.
Download or read book Bullets That Changed America written by Peter Zablocki and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2022-06-13 with total page 199 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One gunshot by a single person could be powerful enough to move a whole nation. Well known are the assassinations of Abraham Lincoln, John F. Kennedy, William McKinley, and Martin Luther King Jr., and their long-lasting consequences. History, however, is littered with lesser-known gunshots that have had equally echoing outcomes. Some were small mistakes or misjudgments, others intentional acts that sparked events documented in our history textbooks. A single bullet serves as the catalyst for each of the stories in this book. We may or may not know who fired it but we know each bullet's end point and the effects it had on America's trajectory: the wars, social movements, and political and economic paradigm shifts. The names of those involved may not to many be recognizable but the events their acts precipitated are etched in American history.
Download or read book The Ego and the Dynamic Ground written by Michael Washburn and published by SUNY Press. This book was released on 1988-01-01 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book presents a transpersonal theory of human development. Using a broad range of both Western and Eastern sources, Washburn answers the challenge of Carl Jung. He shows how modern humans can integrate themselves and attain self-realization rather than self-destruction.
