The Murder of Vivian Gordon w/ Michael Wolraich
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- Опубликовано: 6 окт 2024
- Vivian Gordon went out before midnight in a velvet dress and mink coat. Her body turned up the next morning in a desolate Bronx park, a dirty clothesline wrapped around her neck. At her stylish Manhattan apartment, detectives discovered notebooks full of names-businessmen, socialites, gangsters. And something else: a letter from an anti-corruption commission established by Governor Franklin Delano Roosevelt. Led by the imperious Judge Samuel Seabury, the commission had uncovered a police conspiracy to frame women as prostitutes. Had Vivian Gordon been executed to bury her secrets? As FDR pressed the police to solve her murder, Judge Seabury pursued the trail of corruption to the top of Gotham’s powerful political machine-the infamous Tammany Hall.
My guest is author Michael Wolraich, and his brand-new book is called "The Bishop and the Butterfly: Murder, Politics, and the End of the Jazz Age". He shares the story of Vivian Gordon, her 1931 murder, and the dramatic effect it had on New York City politics.
More about the author here: michaelwolraic...
What a sad story!
This is why parent's who divorce should find a way to be civil to one another, and not try to keep the child from seeing either parent. Vivian had her life destroyed by being framed, and then murdered, which then revealed to the daughter a whole lot of deception, and public shaming that drove her to suicide. Talk about a sad story. G-d bless.
I love this channel.
The life of Vivian Gordon and her daughter could have been so different if she had never been arrested. Changes were made because of her death. However, it didn't help here or her daughter.
It's nice to see the more things change in New York the more they remain the same.....
I may buy that book…
Very interesting
Well I can’t buy the book and read it because I’m blind. So thanks.
It's available as an audiobook, so no worries.