The Combat Zone : murder, race, and Boston's struggle for justice /

The Combat Zone : murder, race, and Boston's struggle for justice /

"At the end of the 1976 football season, more than thirty Harvard athletes went to Boston's Combat Zone to celebrate. In the city's adult entertainment district, drugs and prostitution ran rampant, violent crime was commonplace, and corrupt police turned the other way. At the end of t...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Brogan, Jan (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Amherst : Bright Leaf, an imprint of University of Massachusetts Press, [2021]
Subjects:
Puopolo, Andy > (Andrew P.), > 1956-1976 > Death and burial.
Harvard University > Students > Crimes against.
1900-1999
Murder > Massachusetts > Boston.
Murder victims > Massachusetts > Boston.
Trials (Murder) > Massachusetts > Boston.
Discrimination in criminal justice administration > Massachusetts > Boston.
Red-light districts > Massachusetts > Boston.
Boston (Mass.) > Race relations > History > 20th century.
History
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Table of Contents:
  • A night in "the Zone"
  • Combat medicine
  • A sexual Disneyland
  • You can't back down
  • The sleaze factor
  • Loyalty and revenge
  • Ferocious competitors
  • A terrible witness
  • Private loss, public controversy
  • Wading through the jury pool
  • A noble act
  • State of mind
  • The color of justice
  • Death grants no appeals
  • Landmark decision
  • The edge
  • Behind locked doors
  • A brother's responsibility
  • Furloughs and escapes
  • Hitman for hire.

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