Who Killed Jackie Bates?

Name: Who Killed Jackie Bates?
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ISBN: 9781897252185

ISBN-10: 1897252188

ISBN-13: 9781897252185

Edition: 2008

Authors: Bill Waiser

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On the morning of 5 December 1933, a young RCMP constable discovered a grisly scene in the Avalon schoolyard in rural Saskatchewan. A young boy lay dead in a rented car, an apparent victim of carbon monoxide poisoning. In the car with him were his parents, who would survive both the effects of the gas and self-inflicted knife wounds only to face murder charges in their son's death. The subsequent trial of Ted and Rose Bates ranks as one of the most hotly debated in Saskatchewan history. Historian Bill Waiser examines an incident long held up as an example of the sheer despair and bureaucratic heartlessness of the Depression and shows that the truth is much more complex. Through meticulous…

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List price: $24.95
Copyright year: 2008
Publisher: Fifth House Publishers
Publication date: 8/12/2008
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 208
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.00" long x 1.00" tall
Weight: 0.968
Language: English

A specialist in western and northern Canadian history, Bill Waiser joined the Department of History at the University of Saskatchewan in 1984 and served as department head from 1995-1998. He was Yukon Historian for the Canadian Parks Service prior to his university appointment.



Introduction We Have Been Mixing Things Up



Everyone Liked Him



Just About Out of My Mind



They Won't Have Us Here



Let's Go in Here and Finish It



I Know We'll Hang



Certainly Loved by Both



Better Luck than Us



The Fight for Their Lives


Epilogue The Horror of Imagining


Note on Approach and Sources


Acknowledgements


Notes


About the Author