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Zebra Murders A Season of Killing, Racial Madness and Civil Rights

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ISBN-10: 1611450438

ISBN-13: 9781611450439

Edition: 2011

Authors: Prentice Earl Sanders, Ben Cohen

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On October 20, 1973, in San Francisco, a white couple strolling down Telegraph Hill was set upon and butchered by four young black men. Thus began a reign of terror that lasted six months and left fifteen whites dead and the entire city in a state of panic. The perpetrators wanted nothing less than a race war. With pressure on the San Francisco Police Department mounting daily, young homicide detectives Prentice Earl Sanders and his colleague Rotea Gilford both African-American were as- signed to the cases. The problem was: Sanders and Gilford were in the midst of a trail-blazing suit against the SFPD for racial discrimination, which in those days was rampant. The backlash was immediate.…    
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Book details

List price: $14.95
Copyright year: 2011
Publisher: Skyhorse Publishing Company, Incorporated
Publication date: 5/1/2011
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 288
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.00" long x 6.10" tall
Weight: 0.814
Language: English

Wade Bourne is an award-winning outdoor writer as well as the founder and host of Pros' Pointers Radio, which airs nationwide year-round. A veteran television broadcaster, he has hosted a weekly hunting and fishing series for several years. He is the author of six books on hunting and fishing and contributes to several leading outdoor magazines. He lives in Clarksville, Tennessee.Prentice Earl Sanders was the first black police chief of the San Francisco Police Department. He recently retired and lives in San Francisco, California,

Ben Cohen has been a Pinkerton Guard, a garbage man, and a short-order cook. He began seriously testing ice-cream flavors at the age of five.

Prologue
A Motiveless Murder
A Deathbed Promise
The Real Cops
The .32-Caliber Killings
The Ghetto Reward
Revenge
Operation Zebra
Patty
Flashpoints
Another South Africa
Real Cops After All
Epilogue: Finding the Truth in a True Story
Acknowledgments