by sdeitche » Sun Jun 28, 2020 7:22 am
Grouchy Sinatra wrote: ↑Sat Jun 27, 2020 10:47 am
I thought there was new information on the book. lol.
The author himself chimes in at the beginning of the thread and addresses whether they existed or not. The point of the book. The look at the players and what impact they really had, whether or not they could be considered a legit crew. They had a lot of notoriety so the topic is relevant.
I'm plugging away! Found some good sources of info, but some has been harder to find. I did get a copy of the 1976 DEA report, but the ATF did not have a copy of their 1979 report, nor was I able to find a copy of the late 1970s FDLE report (though I have a source looking into an alternative avenue for the ATF report). I've spoken to some guys who knew some of the "Gang"- some were open to talking, others not so much.
The one thing, from a writing/researching perspective that I'm liking about this subject is that I'm coming from a place of little existing information and building upon it, as opposed to some of my other projects which were taking huge caches of available materials and winnowing them down. I'm enjoying this process.
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I thought there was new information on the book. lol.
The author himself chimes in at the beginning of the thread and addresses whether they existed or not. The point of the book. The look at the players and what impact they really had, whether or not they could be considered a legit crew. They had a lot of notoriety so the topic is relevant.
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I'm plugging away! Found some good sources of info, but some has been harder to find. I did get a copy of the 1976 DEA report, but the ATF did not have a copy of their 1979 report, nor was I able to find a copy of the late 1970s FDLE report (though I have a source looking into an alternative avenue for the ATF report). I've spoken to some guys who knew some of the "Gang"- some were open to talking, others not so much.
The one thing, from a writing/researching perspective that I'm liking about this subject is that I'm coming from a place of little existing information and building upon it, as opposed to some of my other projects which were taking huge caches of available materials and winnowing them down. I'm enjoying this process.