Robert Reynolds: 504 books

A United Airlines Boeing 727 crashed into Lake Michigan on its approach to O'Hare International Airport on August 16, 1965. The plane was the first Boeing 727 to ever crash. In the following two months two more like it came down near Cincinnati and in Salt Lake City. Yet the Federal Aviation...

Henry Taylor was a Formula One racer who switched to become a rally racer after having a serious wreck. Taylor later became a Ford executive and was captain of the British rally team for a number of years. My book looks at his career from when he began racing F1 cars for the Cooper marque, which was...

The New York Giants had beaten the Green Bay Packers at the Polo Grounds on November 19, 1944. The Packers won the Western Division and New York edged out the Washington Redskins and the Philadelphia Eagles for the Eastern Division crown. On December 17th the two professional football teams met again...

Crime began to escalate during the Great Depression. The third decade of the 20th century witnessed an increase in crimes more than the decades that preceded it. On Easter Weekend 1937 three persons were found murdered in an East Side New York City apartment. One of them happened to be a lovely young...

Poliomyelitis was a dreaded illness in the 20th century until its eradication thanks to the Salk Vaccine that was introduce in 1954. My book looks at the impact made by infantile paralysis over a single region, i.e. the towns, cities and counties of upstate New York. I have detailed various measures...

Bonanno family members lived mostly in Brooklyn and Manhattan in 1920. Some resided in the Bronx and Queens also. Their professions ranged from police detectives to laborers for the city of New York. Clothing was the most prominent industry of employment of Bonannos at the time. Most all of the persons...

The Touhy Gang proved to be a more than competent adversary for Al Capone in his quest to dominate bootlegging and liquor trafficking in Chicago during the 1920s and 1930s. The Touhys were led by Roger the Terrible Touhy and were also very involved in bootlegging and liquor. When Capone found that...

Brigitte Helm was a versatile German actress of the Weimar Era. She is remembered primarily for her dual role as the benevolent Maria and the evil Machine Man in Fritz Lang's Metropolis, a German film made by UFA in 1925 and 1926. She was remembered by Lang for her superb depiction of the blind...

Marian Nixon was originally from Superior, Wisconsin. She moved to Minneapolis after high school, training as a dancer and later entering vaudeville. She liked vaudeville, the stage, and dancing, but she opted to take a chance on becoming a motion picture actress. It was in 1918 that Nixon left a...

Greta Nissen was a lovely Norwegian beauty with fair skin and enchanting blue eyes. Her mother started her out early in dancing and ballet. When the girl was just six years of age she entered the Royal Opera of Copenhagen where she acquired additional training. In 1924 Greta came to the United States...

Yolande Pompey was a contender for the world light heavyweight in the 1950s. An orphan from Princes Town, Trinidad, Pompey's most prominent fight came against world champion Archie Moore in 1956. My e-book looks at how Yolande Pompey ascended the ranks of boxing in the West Indies. Soon he was...

Sam DeStefano was a Chicago mobster known for torturing his enemies, and those who owed him money. He became the first loan shark in the city's history. Crooked policemen would bring to criminals DeStefano's home and he would put them on a payment plan to pay off their debts. If they missed...

Little William "Billy" Ranieri was abducted one day in September 1928, while he was on his way from school to his Northwest Chicago home. The youth was later able to provide eyewitness testimony against his kidnappers. The Sicilian boy was held by several men who worked in association with a former...

Samuel "Sassy" Chioccoli was a multifaceted gangster who had direct ties to Murder, Inc., a Brooklyn based murder for hire organization. The crime outfit, which operated out of Brownsville, was headed by Louis "Lepke" Buchalter. By the 1930s it operated nationwide, the first of...