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1960s Austin Gangsters: (True Crime)

Jesse Sublett

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Description:Ever wonder what Austin, Texas was like before SXSW and its title as Live Music Capital of the World, home of Willie Nelson and all that? This is the history of the underworld thug culture of Austin in the 1960s, when a gang of safecrackers, drug dealers, pimps and all-around thugs dominated the vice and crime scene in Austin, centered around an ex-UT football player named Timmy Overton. Charles Whitman, the Tower sniper, played poker against Timmy, lost, paid with a canceled check, and then began carrying a 357 Magnum to protect himself. Voracious and extremely prolific, the Overton Gang not only dominated the underworld scene in Austin but spread out across the South and Southwest, working on their specialties as road gamblers and burglars of small-town banks (they probably hit as many as three dozen banks in small towns in Texas, Oklahoma, Kansas, Arkansas, Louisiana, Missouri and elsewhere), joining and abetting their colleagues in other parts of the South/Southwest, becoming better known in the 1970s as the Dixie Mafia. The group included several Overton siblings, who were assisted by other family members, plus the infamous Jerry Ray James, who made it to the FBI Most Wanted List in 1966, plus Fred Hedges, Joan Taylor, John Flanagan, Hank Bowen, Little Larry Culbreath, and many others. The gang was decimated by a massive 1968 federal conspiracy trial. Twenty gang members were indicted and tried in a four month long trial in Del Rio and El Paso; only six were convicted. Timmy Overton was assassinated by a fellow gang member in Dallas in 1972 just two months after he was paroled from Leavenworth. The book is a highly detailed, impeccably authenticated and footnoted work of true crime; the first definitive work on this fascinating period in the history of Austin. There are even clues for JFK conspiracy buffs to follow.We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with 1960s Austin Gangsters: (True Crime). To get started finding 1960s Austin Gangsters: (True Crime), you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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Pages: 176

Format: PDF, EPUB & Kindle Edition

Publisher: Arcadia Publishing

Release: 2015

ISBN: 1626198403

Description: Ever wonder what Austin, Texas was like before SXSW and its title as Live Music Capital of the World, home of Willie Nelson and all that? This is the history of the underworld thug culture of Austin in the 1960s, when a gang of safecrackers, drug dealers, pimps and all-around thugs dominated the vice and crime scene in Austin, centered around an ex-UT football player named Timmy Overton. Charles Whitman, the Tower sniper, played poker against Timmy, lost, paid with a canceled check, and then began carrying a 357 Magnum to protect himself. Voracious and extremely prolific, the Overton Gang not only dominated the underworld scene in Austin but spread out across the South and Southwest, working on their specialties as road gamblers and burglars of small-town banks (they probably hit as many as three dozen banks in small towns in Texas, Oklahoma, Kansas, Arkansas, Louisiana, Missouri and elsewhere), joining and abetting their colleagues in other parts of the South/Southwest, becoming better known in the 1970s as the Dixie Mafia. The group included several Overton siblings, who were assisted by other family members, plus the infamous Jerry Ray James, who made it to the FBI Most Wanted List in 1966, plus Fred Hedges, Joan Taylor, John Flanagan, Hank Bowen, Little Larry Culbreath, and many others. The gang was decimated by a massive 1968 federal conspiracy trial. Twenty gang members were indicted and tried in a four month long trial in Del Rio and El Paso; only six were convicted. Timmy Overton was assassinated by a fellow gang member in Dallas in 1972 just two months after he was paroled from Leavenworth. The book is a highly detailed, impeccably authenticated and footnoted work of true crime; the first definitive work on this fascinating period in the history of Austin. There are even clues for JFK conspiracy buffs to follow.We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with 1960s Austin Gangsters: (True Crime). To get started finding 1960s Austin Gangsters: (True Crime), you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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