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Jon Wilson

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Oakland, The United States

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Fiction, Crime, Biography

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The dairy described in my book (The Paradox of Innocence) as the Campbell Ranch is true, as is the bricked up channel behind it, used for bootlegging. The S.F. garbage wars were told to me by a person who lived it, and another who witnessed the street fights.

Baby Face Nelson did hideout in Santa Venetia working as a ranch hand. I was told he looked like a child, but was a very good worker. Everyone in the dairy community knew he was there, but all they wanted was a peek (engaging in conversation was considered too dangerous).

I grew up a few miles from San Quentin and my father used to go to the prison with a group of men who would talk with prisoners who had no visitors. When his most likable inmate was paroled; it was a great day. A littl ...more

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The Paradox of Innocence: An amazing investigation into one of the least known episodes of the Crime Wave years of the Thirties. The names of the violent and dangerous criminals who wrote a bloody chapter in the Depression Years is common but the lives of the people touched and destroyed by their reckless and wanton avarice is forgotten or ignored.

While this work is fact based, it reads like a co

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	You Don't Have To Live In The Past by Jon Wilson (Goodreads Author), André Bernier (Editor) 4.67 avg rating — 3 ratings — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
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