The Whiskey Au Go Go Massacre

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The Whiskey Au Go Go Massacre

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Author : Geoff Plunkett
language : en
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Release Date : 2018-05-05

The Whiskey Au Go Go Massacre written by Geoff Plunkett and has been published by Simon and Schuster this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-05-05 with True Crime categories.

This is a work of non-fiction. The quoted conversations are taken verbatim from police eyewitness statements, court transcripts, coroners’ reports and other archival material. Unless otherwise stated, the narrative is based on the original police murder-investigation files. The Whiskey Au Go Go nightclub massacre was a defining moment in 1970s Australia: the ‘horrific epicentre of all the crime and filth, the corruption and deaths that came before and followed that tragic night in March 1973, when 15 innocent people lost their lives’. Despite the quick arrest and subsequent conviction of John Stuart and his sidekick, James Finch, the ashes have never stopped smouldering. Rumours have swirled around that horror-filled night for decades: were Stuart and Finch framed? Were others involved? Were further atrocities committed to hide the truth behind the outrage? For decades it was impossible to uncover the truth behind the tragedy. That changed in 2012, when the author had the privilege of being the first person to view the files created by the original lead detectives. These files reveal what occurred prior to, during, and after the conflagration. They reveal unsettling facts. They reveal that the full story of that night has never been told – until now.

The Whiskey Au Go Go Massacre

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Author : Geoff Plunkett
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2020-10-13

The Whiskey Au Go Go Massacre written by Geoff Plunkett and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-10-13 with categories.

This is a work of non-fiction. The quoted conversations are taken verbatim from police eyewitness statements, court transcripts, coroners' reports and other archival material. Unless otherwise stated, the narrative is based on the original police murder-investigation files. The Whiskey Au Go Go nightclub massacre was a ......

The Riddle Exposed

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Author : William Stokes
language : en
Publisher: Interactive Publications
Release Date : 2021-03

The Riddle Exposed written by William Stokes and has been published by Interactive Publications this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-03 with True Crime categories.

In 1973 the firebombing of the Whiskey Au-Go-Go nightclub grabbed the headlines in Brisbane unlike any other disaster beforehand. 15 people were killed amid the inferno, the worst mass-murder ever in Australia. Rumours were rife. Detectives were forewarned, but was the firebombing part of an implausible notion to embark on an extortion racket? Or was it a scheme for insurance purposes? Perhaps it was the act of a disgruntled customer, a former employee, or someone owed money? Politicians from all sides of Parliament demanded quick answers. Unbeknown to but a few, early in the morning after the fire, Billy McCulkin was the first person interviewed by detectives while his wife and young daughters fled from their Highgate Hill house; and they only returned to their house after the arrests of John Stuart and Jim Finch. Later, Mrs McCulkin confided to her co-worker, as well as a neighbour, and her brother that she feared for her safety because she knew her husband and his associates were involved in both the Torino and Whiskey Au-Go-Go nightclub fires. During the months of anxiety for Mrs McCulkin, the courtroom appearances of Stuart and Finch heard repeated outbursts from them asserting that detectives had concocted a false verbal confession. The subsequent wire-swallowing protests by Stuart and Finch were extraordinary. Finch even whacked off a piece of his finger, but the self-mutilating efforts from both achieved nothing. The trial, being the longest and costliest staged in Queensland, proceeded without Stuart, or any legal representative for him, while he lay handcuffed to a hospital bed - a first for any Australian court when a life imprisonment term is mandatory. Not long after the Whiskey murder trial, and the fifth reported wire-swallowing protest from Stuart, Mrs Barbara McCulkin and her two daughters disappeared, murdered by Vince O’Dempsey and Gary Dubois, though they were not then brought to stand trial because the case was far too riddled with the standard 1970s police corruption. Interwoven around the Waterside Workers Union journal, Port News, as its publisher William Stokes’ account of his acquaintanceship with everyone concerned - including the bizarre Clockwork Orange gang and a nympho wife who believed she was demoniacally possessed - leads to a harrowing tale. Expect the unexpected.

Death By Mustard Gas

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Author : Geoff Plunkett
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2014-10-10

Death By Mustard Gas written by Geoff Plunkett and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-10-10 with Chemical agents (Munitions) categories.

In 1943 a top secret consignment of chemical weapons, includingdeadly mustard gas, arrived in Australia by ship. But there wasa problem -- it was leaking. Military authorities quickly realisedthis but, in the interests of secrecy, sent unprotected andunsuspecting wharf labourers into a lethal environment. The resultwas catastrophic: permanent disability and death. This shockingnarrative includes accounts of official deceit, intimidation ofgassed labourers and denial of natural justice. The truth, buriedin classified documents and the testimony of the few survivors, isthat human life was sacrificed for the sake of secrecy.Almost 70 years after war stocks of chemical weapons wereapparently totally destroyed, mustard gas is still present on theAustralian mainland, in her oceans and along her coastal fringes.The total destruction of chemical stocks is simply anothermilitary assumption. The truth is that these deadly weapons wereincompletely destroyed, buried or simply lost. Many retain theireffectiveness despite the passing of time, a fact that cost oneman his life and saw staff and children at a school badly burned.Mustard gas weapons have been retrieved as recently as 2012and more may lie in shallow graves waiting to be

The Night Dragon

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Author : Matthew Condon
language : en
Publisher: Univ. of Queensland Press
Release Date : 2019-03-04

The Night Dragon written by Matthew Condon and has been published by Univ. of Queensland Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-03-04 with True Crime categories.

&‘He takes you in the middle of the night, like an angel, and you're gone for good.' - Witness at Vincent O'Dempsey's committal hearing. In 2017, Vincent O'Dempsey was sentenced to life in prison for the brutal murders of Barbara McCulkin and her two young daughters. It took over 40 years to bring him to justice. Feared for decades by criminals and police alike, O'Dempsey associated with convicted underworld figures and has been linked to a string of haunting cold cases, including the deadly Whiskey au Go Go nightclub firebombing that killed 15 innocent people. Award-winning investigative journalist Matthew Condon has interviewed dozens of ex-cons, police and witnesses to put together a compelling picture of the calculating killer who spent his life evading the law before he was finally brought to justice.

Chemical Warfare In Australia

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Author : Geoff Plunkett
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2013-01-01

Chemical Warfare In Australia written by Geoff Plunkett and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-01-01 with History categories.

As the Japanese swept south towards Australia in late 1941, they carried chemical weapons, already used with deadly effect in China. Forced to counter the chemical warfare threat, Australia covertly imported 1 million chemical weapons and hid them. Plunkett tells the story of the importation, storage, and live trials of the deadly weapons.

The Wretched Of The Earth

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Author : Frantz Fanon
language : en
Publisher: Grove/Atlantic, Inc.
Release Date : 2007-12-01

The Wretched Of The Earth written by Frantz Fanon and has been published by Grove/Atlantic, Inc. this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2007-12-01 with Social Science categories.

The sixtieth anniversary edition of Frantz Fanon’s landmark text, now with a new introduction by Cornel West First published in 1961, and reissued in this sixtieth anniversary edition with a powerful new introduction by Cornel West, Frantz Fanon’s The Wretched of the Earth is a masterfuland timeless interrogation of race, colonialism, psychological trauma, and revolutionary struggle, and a continuing influence on movements from Black Lives Matter to decolonization. A landmark text for revolutionaries and activists, The Wretched of the Earth is an eternal touchstone for civil rights, anti-colonialism, psychiatric studies, and Black consciousness movements around the world. Alongside Cornel West’s introduction, the book features critical essays by Jean-Paul Sartre and Homi K. Bhabha. This sixtieth anniversary edition of Fanon’s most famous text stands proudly alongside such pillars of anti-colonialism and anti-racism as Edward Said’s Orientalism and The Autobiography of Malcolm X.

Tarzan Triumphant

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Author : Edgar Rice Burroughs
language : en
Publisher: Hyweb Technology Co. Ltd.
Release Date : 2011-11-15

Tarzan Triumphant written by Edgar Rice Burroughs and has been published by Hyweb Technology Co. Ltd. this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011-11-15 with Foreign Language Study categories.

The World Book Encyclopedia

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Author :
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2021

The World Book Encyclopedia written by and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021 with categories.

The Last Colonial Massacre

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Author : Greg Grandin
language : en
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Release Date : 2011-07-30

The Last Colonial Massacre written by Greg Grandin and has been published by University of Chicago Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011-07-30 with History categories.

After decades of bloodshed and political terror, many lament the rise of the left in Latin America. Since the triumph of Castro, politicians and historians have accused the left there of rejecting democracy, embracing communist totalitarianism, and prompting both revolutionary violence and a right-wing backlash. Through unprecedented archival research and gripping personal testimonies, Greg Grandin powerfully challenges these views in this classic work. In doing so, he uncovers the hidden history of the Latin American Cold War: of hidebound reactionaries holding on to their power and privilege; of Mayan Marxists blending indigenous notions of justice with universal ideas of equality; and of a United States supporting new styles of state terror throughout the region. With Guatemala as his case study, Grandin argues that the Latin American Cold War was a struggle not between political liberalism and Soviet communism but two visions of democracy—one vibrant and egalitarian, the other tepid and unequal—and that the conflict’s main effect was to eliminate homegrown notions of social democracy. Updated with a new preface by the author and an interview with Naomi Klein, The Last Colonial Massacre is history of the highest order—a work that will dramatically recast our understanding of Latin American politics and the role of the United States in the Cold War and beyond. “This work admirably explains the process in which hopes of democracy were brutally repressed in Guatemala and its people experienced a civil war lasting for half a century.”—International History Review “A richly detailed, humane, and passionately subversive portrait of inspiring reformers tragically redefined by the Cold War as enemies of the state.”—Journal of American History