Charles Arthur “Pretty Boy” Floyd was a famous robber who was blood hungry and willing to do anything. He was the one that supposedly killed the 4 cops during the Kansas City Massacre on June 17, 1933. Pretty Boy was known for his constant run in with the law and his robberies. He always seemed to avoid getting arrested. Only a few times did he get arrested, but it never stopped him from getting out and continuing his crime spree. Pretty Boy’s early life was normal, he had a loving family. He was born on February 3, 1904 Adairsville, Georgia. He had multiple brothers and sisters. His family moved to a farm in Oklahoma, and were very poor. Because his family were going through a depression, as most of the farmers were during the “Dust Bowl”, he turned to crime to get money. Pretty Boy robbed a post office and stole $350 in pennies; later getting caught. He then realized he liked the life of getting quick, easy money. When Pretty Boy was 20 years old, he married Ruby Hardgraves and moved to St. louis. His son was born while he was in prison for 4 years for …show more content…
He was included in a brawl with police in Ohio, in which his assistant and a cop were murdered and his better half was shot and caught, however he figured out how to get away. His name and that of Adam Richetti shot up; concerning the "Kansas City Massacre" of June 17, 1933, in which five men, including a FBI specialist and a few nearby cops, were executed in an elevator to free a group of pioneer being transported to jail, despite the fact that Floyd dependably denied being included. One idea was that it wasn't an endeavor to free the hood, a guy named Frank Nash, who was one of those murdered, was going to rat them out to get a shortened sentence. The idea was backed up by the way that both Floyd and Richetti didn't have a place with a specific group and had no genuine binds to Kansas City, yet were outstanding as hits for
Unable to conform to society’s norms, Richard Eugene Hickcok is raised by his parents who are modest farmers. In spite of his family’s hardship Dick’s childhood is pretty typical, he is popular throughout high school, plays sports, and he dreams of going to college. Due to his family’s lack of resources, Dick is unable to fulfill his dream of attending college. In spite of Dick’s unfortunate drawbacks Dick lives an average life, he marries has three children, and becomes a mechanic. Dick lives a typical American life, but soon after his third child is born Dick has an extramarital affair which ends his marriage. Shortly after his divorce from his first wife Dick remarries, but his second marriage ...
Leroy “Satchel” Paige was born July 7th, 1906, the seventh child (out of twelve) and third son to be birthed to Lula and John Coleman Paige in Mobile, Alabama. Leroy’s life was immediately difficult, mainly because he was born in a family that was struggling with poverty. His father was a gardener, and unemployed, while his mother was a domestic servant. It was a constant and fearful struggle to have food on the table. Leroy’s parents did their best, but Leroy and his siblings had to go without toys in their childhood. Leroy recalled, “We played in the dirt because we didn't have toys. We threw rocks. There wasn't anything else to throw.” Leroy found school to be boring and was uninterested in education and often skipped school in order to go fishing (possibly so that his family would have something to eat) and play baseball. He didn't totally neglect his responsibilities though. , In order to help with providing the family of fourteen with necessities; Leroy took up odd jobs such as delivering ice or collecting and reselling empty bottles. An interesting fact about Leroy is that h...
Where they grew up, kids as young as 8 years old were recruited into illegal operations; Wes and Tony included. Mary tried everything she could, but had lost her sons to the wonder and curiosity that money brings. The important place a mother should hold in her son’s life vanished and she was left to take care of their mistakes. Later in their lives, both boys were caught in a heist that set them up for an entire lifetime in jail. Their arrest sent “cheering responses” from everyone in their community. The boys were not only involved with a robbery, but a murder as well. The word spread quickly about their sentences and a “collective sigh of relief seeped through Baltimore. At home, Mary wept” (Moore 155). Many families go through traumatic experiences comparable to Mary’s situation. The choices her sons made left her alone, parallel to the isolation the boys were experiencing as
...In the riotous aftermath of King's assassination, the FBI reported extensively about Daley's "shoot to kill" order aimed at arsonists, a stand the FBI praised.
On July 25, 1946, two young black couples- Roger and Dorothy Malcom, George and Mae Murray Dorsey-were killed by a lynch mob at the Moore's Ford Bridge over the Appalachee River connecting Walton and Oconee Counties (Brooks, 1). The four victims were tied up and shot hundreds of times in broad daylight by a mob of unmasked men; murder weapons included rifles, shotguns, pistols, and a machine gun. "Shooting a black person was like shooting a deer," George Dorsey's nephew, George Washington Dorsey said (Suggs C1). It has been over fifty years and this case is still unsolved by police investigators. It is known that there were atleast a dozen men involved in these killings. Included in the four that were known by name was Loy Harrison. Loy Harrison may not have been an obvious suspect to the investigators, but Harrison was the sole perpetrator in the unsolved Moore's Ford Lynching case. The motive appeared to be hatred and the crime hurt the image of the state leaving the town in an outrage due to the injustice that left the victims in unmarked graves (Jordon,31).
Just as Johnny’s courage shines through so does his fast maturity from child to adult. His childhood was stolen away from him by his illness but instead of sulking he pulls himself together. He takes every difficulty in stride, and gets through them. Even when he is feeling down he hides it for he does not want anyone else to feel his pain. Being a seventeen year old boy he wants to do the things all other seventeen year old boys do.
The life of Boy Staunton is a testament to both the good and bad things that motivation and ambition can bring about. To these two traits, he owed his success, hi survival of the Great Depression, and the avoidance of filling his father’s footsteps in he small town of Deptford. However, these forces also brought about his death.
Throughout all of American history there have been those who are well known for committing what are classified as deviant or criminal acts. Most of those who are well known by the public for their actions have committed deeds seen as extremely controversial such as being cult leaders, gang or mafia members, terrorists, rapists, or killers. The lists of members for each topic is numerous, however, there are a certain few that are more prominent than others. One criminal that stands out when speaking of killers in particular is Gary Ridgway, or as he is better known, the Green River Killer. Gary Ridgway is the nation’s most abundant serial killer, with the highest murder rate in America’s history (Gibson).
The story begins with the narrator’s brother, Sonny, being arrested for using heroin. When the narrator discovers what has happened to his brother, he slowly starts to relive his past. Up to this point, the narrator had completely cut his brother and his childhood from his life. He disapproves of the past and does everything in his power to get rid of it. The narrator had become an algebra teacher and had a family who he moved to get away from the bad influences on the street. As a result, it is shown in the story that he has worked hard to maintain a good “clean” life for his family and himself. Readers can see that he has lived a good life, but at the toll of denying where he came from and even his own brother. For years, his constant aim for success had been successful. However, as the story progressed everything he knew started to fall apart.
Dubbed the “Baton Rouge Serial Killer” Derrick Todd Lee was only one of two serial killers working the Baton Rouge area during the time between 1992 and 2004. Lee is a black male, who lived with his wife and children St. Francisville, LA. Lee had avoided being caught for many years because an eye witness had told authorities the suspect was a white male (Mustafa, Clayton & Israel, 2006). This information was very believable because most serial killers do not cross racial lines when choosing their victims and all of Lee’s victims were white except one (Mustafa, Clayton & Israel, 2006). Lee was eventually named as the suspect in 2002 when DNA tests revealed the killer was a black male (Stewart, Boyd, M., & Nunnally, D. (2002). He was arrested in 2003 and now lives on death row in Louisiana State Penitentiary.
Even though the narrator and Sonny grew up in the same house being raised the same they both took different paths in life. The narrator was the ambitious son that was not a trouble maker. He was the good child that had good grades in school and wanted to be successful by putting out hard work to get it. Sonny, on the other hand, was the bad that was not very ambitious through hard work but through his music.
...k he’s rich and he’s happy because he can have everything he ever wanted was perception. (15-16). But the reality he put a bullet to his head maybe from depression or unhappiness, but it shows this perception and imagination we build on someone and then BAM! People wake up to see the real world and it’s not all they thought it would be.
In 1931, on a freight train bound for Memphis, around twenty-five young men, both black and white, were hoboing, looking for work. The whites began to act spitefully at the blacks, picking up rocks to throw at them, stepping on their hands, and calling them names. The blacks, wanting to keep their pride, came back at them. In the brawl that followed, all but one of the whites were thrown off the train. These whites, sore about being beaten, ran back to the nearest rail station, who phoned ahead to the next station, in Paint Rock, Alabama. A mob of whites were waiting there, armed to the teeth. They took everyone off the train and rounded them up. Nine of them were blacks. These men: Roy and Andy Wright, Eugene Williams, Haywood Patterson, Olen Montgomery, Willie Roberson, Charlie Weems, Clarence Norris, and Ozie Powell were brought to the Scottsboro jail, and charged with the rape of two young white women, also hoboing, Victoria Price and Ruby Bates (Patterson 13-17). They were tried for rape, convicted, retried, convicted again, retried again, and convicted a third time (Patterson 9). These trials and retrials of these nine young men, who became know as the “Scottsboro Boys,” were not fair.
The person I chose to research was Gary Ridgway. He is also known as The Green River Killer. Gary was a serial killer in Washington. He has been convicted of murdering 49 women, he has confessed to around 60 killings, but is estimated to have killed closer to 80 women. All the women that he had killed were prostitutes that he had picked up, had sex with them, and then strangled them. He says that he never raped or tortured any of his victims, he just killed them. Gary started killing prostitutes in 1892 and is confirmed to have killed till 1998, but is thought that his last kill was around 2001. He was called the Green River Killer because his first victims’ bodies were found around the Green River.
Bobby is just a boy who like most nine year olds looks up to his older brother. The story is set in Cleveland, where Booby introduces his family of four. His father is a high school music teacher, his mother teaches exceptional children, and his brother Carlton