Books by "Robert D. Coleman"
12 books found
The Kidnapping and Murder of Little Skeegie Cash
by Robert Alvin Waters, Zack C. Waters
2014 · University of Alabama Press
Informed by thousands of pages of newly released FBI files, The Kidnapping and Murder of Little Skeegie Cash tells the gripping story of the only crime investigated by J. Edgar Hoover himself, the sensational 1938 murder of a five-year-old boy from the Florida Everglades. In his long and storied career, J. Edgar Hoover investigated only one case personally, the 1938 kidnapping and murder of five-year-old Floridian James “Skeegie” Cash. What prompted the director himself to fly from Washington, DC, to a rain-drenched hamlet on the edge of the Everglades? Congress had slashed FBI funding, forcing Hoover to lay off half his agents. The combative Hoover believed if he could bring Skeegie’s killer to justice, the halo of positive publicity would revive the fortunes of the embattled FBI. In The Kidnapping and Murder of Little Skeegie Cash, Robert A. Waters and Zack C. Waters bring to life the drama of the abduction, the payment of a $10,000 ransom, the heartbreaking manhunt for Skeegie and his kidnapper, the arrest and confession of Franklin Pierce McCall, and the killer’s trial and execution. Hordes of reporters swarmed into the little village south of Miami, and for thirteen days until McCall confessed, the case dominated national headlines. The authors capture the drama and the detail as well as the desperate and sometimes extralegal lengths to which Hoover went to crack the case. Using the Freedom of Information Act, the authors obtained more than four thousand pages of FBI files and court documents to reconstruct this important but forgotten case. The tragedy that played out in the swamps of Dade County constituted the backdrop for a political struggle that would involve J. Edgar Hoover, the United States Congress, and even president Franklin Delano Roosevelt. Hoover and the president prevailed, and within two years the FBI grew from 680 employees to more than 14,000. No books and few articles have been published about this historic case.
This fourth edition of Robert Reiner's popular and highly-acclaimed text contains substantial revisions, to take into account the recent and profound changes in the law, policy and organisation of policing.
A Bibliography of the History of California and the Pacific West 1510-1906
by Robert Ernest Cowan
1914
An Analytical Digest of the Law and Practice of the Courts of Common Law
by Ephraim Arnold Jacob, Robert Alexander Fisher
1882
A History of the Rise and Progress of the Baptists in Virginia
by Robert Baylor Semple, George William Beale
1894
Reports of Cases Heard and Determined by the Supreme Court of South Carolina
by South Carolina. Supreme Court, J. S. G. Richardson, Robert Wallace Shand, Cyprian Melanchthon Efird, William Hay Townsend, Duncan C. Ray, William Munro Shand
1914
An Analytical Digest of the Law and Practice of the Courts of Common Law, Divorce, Probate, Admiralty and Bankruptcy, and of the High Court of Justice and the Court of Appeal of England
by Ephraim Arnold Jacob, Robert Alexander Fisher
1882
Rereading America
by Gary Colombo, Uzzie T. Cannon, Robert Cullen, Bonnie Lisle
2021 · Macmillan Higher Education
Examine the assumptions of American culture with a critical lens With Rereading America’s focus on revisiting, defending, and challenging assumptions about American culture (such as “U.S. laws provide equal protection and justice for all”), you’ll grow as a critical thinker and writer.