Robert Reynolds: 504 books

Sputnik blasted off in late 1957 and the Space Age and Space Race between the Cold War adversaries heated up. U.S. President Dwight David Eisenhower was under pressure to do more in the science and military fields to catch up to the Soviet breakthrough. Sputnik I and it successors generated a debate...

I have written from ancestry and newspaper sources a brief anthology of mini bios of young people who died in Cary, NC prior to the beginning of its rapid growth in the late 1970s. The e-book is most relevant to understanding the North Carolina town's past and its people. I have written in my Foreword...

Giuseppe Zangara has been compared to Leon Czolgosz, the assassin of William McKinley. Czolgosz was electrocuted at Auburn Prison in upstate New York within weeks after he shot and killed McKinley in a receiving line at the Pan American Exhibition in Buffalo, New York in 1901. Like Czolgosz, Zangara...

Anthony Strollo, also known as Tony Bender and Tough Tony, was a Mafia powerhouse in the Genovese crime family for several decades. His brothers, Dominic and Emillio, were also members of the syndicate. Strollo's primary territory included the New Jersey docks and the Greenwich Village area of...

My e-book treats numerous photographic scandals that I have researched from the twentieth century, i.e. 1900-1984. The first of these involved a mixed race photographer who surprised citizens of DeSoto, Missouri by photographing numerous women there nude. The naked images didn't surface until after...

In 1969 an off campus newspaper at the University of Florida-Gainesville published nude photos of a woman standing and seated in the university's research library. The controversial publication was the second instance of nudity causing a stir in Gainesville in the previous three years. In 1966 Pamme...

Sasquatch is a native term for a huge humanoid creature that has been sighted, primarily in the northwest United States and southwest Canada since the 18th century. Caucasian records of Sasquatch date from 1811 when a trapper in the northwest sighted huge footprints and recorded them in his diary....

Cedar waxwings have been called the gypsies of the bird family as their range is uneven and widespread. This species of birds, Bombycilla cedorum, can be found from New York to Georgia on the east coast. They breed in New York and Canada and fly to wherever they can find the berries which are the...

Carmine and Ralph Palizzano were Italian-Americans who were born in the United States. Both of them served in the U.S. Army during World War II. My e-book looks at their criminal connections and the crimes they committed, primarily in the late 1950s. Both were part of a narcotics case in 1957 in which...

John "Johnny the Boxer" Fury was a 1930s era gangster in Rochester and Monroe County, New York. His specialty was stealing safes. A career criminal, Fury had twenty-eight offenses on his record before being assigned to Attica Prison in 1936. John was part of a team of three men who carried out safe...

The Boston Strangler strangulation murders of 1962-1963 took place within a small radius, encompassing Boston's Back Bay, Salem, Lynn, Belmont, and Dorchester, MA. A number of the victims of the killer immigrated with their husbands and families from eastern Europe. Through research into U.S. Census...

The crash of Trans World Airlines Flight 903 was one of the worst commercial aviation accidents in history. 16 nations were represented among its passengers. One of them was an Egyptian movie star who was in transit to Switzerland for a vacation from filming. Another was a Gulf Oil manager who was...

The UFO which appeared to a couple of shipyard workers fishing on the pier near the Pascagoula River on October 11, 1973 has been written about on many occasions. My e-book concentrates on fitting the UFO into a time when UFOs were being seen on a nightly basis on the Gulf Coast from Pensacola to...

Alcatraz was opened as Federal penitentiary to confine the most hardened criminals in 1934. Men like Doc Barker and Al Capone were a couple of the names of its inmates. Most were incorrigibles sent from other prisons where they had been malcontents and generally a problem for guards and prison administration....