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Who Named the Knife: A Book of Murder and Memory by Linda Spalding

August 2, 2024 by elderberrywine Leave a Comment

cbr16bingo bananas The mid-1960s through 1970s were an extraordinary turbulent and bloody period in American history.  Fueled by civil rights protests and the Vietnam War, it was a whole period of what next.  Of course, since these were my high school and college years, it was, for most of us, just the way it was.  Starting in 8th grade with John Kennedy’s assassination, there was the assassination of Martin Luther King, Robert Kennedy, the Democratic convention of 1968 in Chicago, Kent State, and the resignation […]

Filed Under: Biography/Memoir, History, Mystery, Non-Fiction Tagged With: 19702 California, 1970s Hawaii, cbr16bingo bananas, journalism, Linda Spalding, Mormon upbring, Naive protagonist, true story, Turbulent times, Weird coincidences

elderberrywine's CBR16 Review No:25 · Genres: Biography/Memoir, History, Mystery, Non-Fiction · Tags: 19702 California, 1970s Hawaii, cbr16bingo bananas, journalism, Linda Spalding, Mormon upbring, Naive protagonist, true story, Turbulent times, Weird coincidences ·
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