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Carregando... Swift Justice: Murder & Vengeance In A California Townde Harry Farrell
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In 1933, a nightmare shook the quiet town of San Jose, California, when a young man named Brooke Hart was abducted while leaving his father's department store. In the days that followed, the Harts, local and state police, and J. Edgar Hoover's FBI scrambled to outwit the kidnappers, whose demands kept them at bay until they - and Brook Hart's murder - were at last discovered.Then the unthinkable: A band of vigilantes stormed the San Jose jail and hanged the two criminals in the town square as ten thousand watched. The next day the governor hailed the lynching as "a fine lesson".The San Jose lynching, which divided the nation and haunts the city still, is a chilling tale of fear, fury, and the collapse of justice - of a small American paradise turned inferno. Não foram encontradas descrições de bibliotecas. |
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Brooke Hart was a 22-year-old who had just been made vice-president of the department store his father owned in downtown San Jose. He was abducted and then horrifically murdered even before the kidnappers sent their first ransom note. The kidnappers were subsequently captured and a lynch mob hung them in a downtown park.
The writing is pretty pedestrian, but the subject is engrossing, so the pages really fly by. This book spends much focus on the subject of lynching. Was it the right thing to do? Is it ever the right thing to do? Did the state government know beforehand that it was going to happen, and set it up so that there was little interference with the lynching?
Read the book and decide for yourself. ( )