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Book Kansas City Crime Central

Download or read book Kansas City Crime Central written by Monroe Dodd and published by . This book was released on 2010-10-11 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: More than two dozen major crimes in the Kansas City area, ranging from the escapades of outlaw Jesse James, the kidnapping of Nelly Don, the 1933 Union Station Massacre, the heroism of Primitivo Garcia, the River Quay mob bombings of the 1970s, to the cancer killings by pharmacist Robert Courtney in the 1990s, and much more.

Book Mobsters In Our Midst  The Kansas City Crime Family

Download or read book Mobsters In Our Midst The Kansas City Crime Family written by William Ouseley and published by . This book was released on 2011-03 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the story of the rise and fall of Kansas City's longest-reigning mob boss, Nick Civella, and his powerful crime family, as told by the FBI agent who helped bring down Civella and his cronies. The book includes never-before-published detail of the crimes and investigations that led to the demise of Civella mob rule. The book also features 20 pages of archival photographs.

Book Forgotten Tales of Kansas City

Download or read book Forgotten Tales of Kansas City written by Paul Kirkman and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2012-10-23 with total page 104 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Meet the folks who slip out of history books like they're playing the Kansas City shuffle. In this fascinating collection of stories, Paul Kirkman has dug up all sorts of head-scratchers: how did Jesse James rob a bank with John F. Kennedy, and how could a Beatles concert in the 1960s fail to make money? Watch a cow explode in a kitchen, frogs rain down from the sky and dogs pay for a public library system. Learn how Harry Houdini was trapped in a phone booth, why Clark Gable haunted street corners in a clown outfit and what kept Kansas City in Missouri.

Book Open City

    Book Details:
  • Author : William Ouseley
  • Publisher : Leathers Pub
  • Release : 2008
  • ISBN : 9781585974801
  • Pages : 373 pages

Download or read book Open City written by William Ouseley and published by Leathers Pub. This book was released on 2008 with total page 373 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Open City is an historical work detailing and analyzing the birth and growth of an organized crime "family" in Kansas City during the first 50 years of the 20th Century. It began with a Mafia-like clan labeled the Black Hand, its roots planted in the secret crime societies of Southern Italy and Sicily - a band of extortionists victimizing the city's "Little Italy" community in the early 1900s. From modest beginnings, the development of the criminal outfit is traced through prohibition, its alliance with the Pendergast Machine, the roaring 20s, Home Rule, the wide open 30s, the birth of La Cosa Nostra, and hard times in the 50s. It is the story of Kansas City, politics, powerful and colorful mob bosses, gangland murders, racket activities, and courageous police officers and reformers. Book jacket.

Book Kansas City Noir

    Book Details:
  • Author : Steve Paul
  • Publisher : Akashic Books
  • Release : 2012-10-02
  • ISBN : 1617751286
  • Pages : 226 pages

Download or read book Kansas City Noir written by Steve Paul and published by Akashic Books. This book was released on 2012-10-02 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A collection of sinister stories set in Kansas City features contributions from such noted mystery authors as Daniel Woodrell, Nancy Pickard, and J. Malcolm Garcia.

Book Black Hand Strawman

    Book Details:
  • Author : Terence Michael O'Malley
  • Publisher : Covington Group
  • Release : 2011-01-01
  • ISBN : 9780615546902
  • Pages : 113 pages

Download or read book Black Hand Strawman written by Terence Michael O'Malley and published by Covington Group. This book was released on 2011-01-01 with total page 113 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This is a scrapbook, a graphic depiction of the story of organized crime in Kansas City, a companion to the box-office sellout 2009 documentary film of the same name. The photos, headlines, artifacts, exhibits, illustrations and records form the narrative and expose a criminal system that was feloniously active and nationally notorious for many years."--P. [4] of cover.

Book Shivaree

    Book Details:
  • Author : Margery A. Neely
  • Publisher : AuthorHouse
  • Release : 2014-10-10
  • ISBN : 1496945816
  • Pages : 394 pages

Download or read book Shivaree written by Margery A. Neely and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2014-10-10 with total page 394 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The families living in the Missouri Ozarks in 1946 had a lot to be proud about: Their local boy, Harry S. Truman, had recently been elected president, and there were opportunities to be seized. Having grown up during the Roaring Twenties, the parents of this time had already survived much, including the Great Depression, the Dustbowl, and war-time rationing. Their childrenif they didnt workrode their bikes to school or simply walked. Its against this backdrop that soldiers begin to return home, careers open up, and families set their sights on property, prestige, and prosperity. However, as families anticipate a great post-war era, the growing threat of communism rears its head. The people have something else to worry about when confronted with mysterious phone calls, the deaths of three unconnected people, and an intrusion into a local armament factory. Take a journey back into time and enter a world of mystery with Shivaree.

Book The Kansas City Gun Experiment

Download or read book The Kansas City Gun Experiment written by Lawrence W. Sherman and published by . This book was released on 1995 with total page 12 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Organized Crime in the United States  1865   1941

Download or read book Organized Crime in the United States 1865 1941 written by Kristofer Allerfeldt and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2018-01-19 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Why do Americans alternately celebrate and condemn gangsters, outlaws and corrupt politicians? Why do they immortalize Al Capone while forgetting his more successful contemporaries George Remus or Roy Olmstead? Why are some public figures repudiated for their connections to the mob while others gain celebrity status? Drawing on historical accounts, the author analyzes the public’s understanding of organized crime and questions some of our most deeply held assumptions about crime and its role in society.

Book Urban America  Growth  Crisis  and Rebirth

Download or read book Urban America Growth Crisis and Rebirth written by John Mcdonald and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2015-03-26 with total page 402 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book will change the way Americans think about their cities. It provides a comprehensive economic and social history of urban America since 1950, covering the 29 largest urban areas of that period. Specifically, the book covers 17 cities in the Northeast, 6 in the South, and 6 in the West, decade by decade, with extensive data and historical narrative. The author divides his analysis into three periods - urban growth (1950 to 1970), urban crisis (late 1960s to 1990), and urban rebirth (since 1990). He draws on the concepts of the vicious circle and the virtuous circle to offer the first in-depth explanation for the transition from urban crisis to urban rebirth that took place in the early 1990s. "Urban America" is both a message of hope and a call to action for students and professionals in urban studies. It will inspire readers to concentrate on finding ways and means to ensure that the urban rebirth will continue.

Book City Financial Emergencies

Download or read book City Financial Emergencies written by United States. Advisory Commission on Intergovernmental Relations and published by . This book was released on 1973 with total page 202 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book State local Relations in the Criminal Justice System

Download or read book State local Relations in the Criminal Justice System written by United States. Advisory Commission on Intergovernmental Relations and published by . This book was released on 1971 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Oversight Hearing on Organized Crime Strike Forces

Download or read book Oversight Hearing on Organized Crime Strike Forces written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on the Judiciary. Subcommittee on Criminal Justice and published by . This book was released on 1989 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Street Crime in America

    Book Details:
  • Author : United States. Congress. House. Select Committee on Crime
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1973
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 1432 pages

Download or read book Street Crime in America written by United States. Congress. House. Select Committee on Crime and published by . This book was released on 1973 with total page 1432 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: