Echoes of Shannon Street The Kidnapping and Murder of Officer Robert S Hester eBook James Howell Clay Boyce Dana Howell Kelly Nichols
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A documentary, "Shannon Street, Echoes Under A Blood Red Moon, A Memphis Tragedy", based on the book is due to be released in the Spring of 2016. The film adaptation begins filming in the Summer of 2016 with a release date of January 2017.
It is, to this day, the largest number of suspects to die in a non-riotous, local police action in this country.
Echoes Of Shannon Street is a true crime police procedural that tells the story of the abduction of two white police officers by black cult members in the racially divided city of Memphis in January, 1983 The event began a highly publicized and sharply criticized stand-off between hundreds of police officers and the seven suspects barricaded inside a small house in a predominantly black area of north Memphis.
For the next day and a half, negotiators attempted in vain to communicate with the leader of the cult, a mentally ill man named Sanders. Inside a local school, top police officials discussed their options. Outside, police officers stood in the cold, anxiously awaiting orders to go inside and rescue their fellow officer.
The wait was long and hard, made even more horrific by the fact that for five hours, the officer’s beating and his cries for help were heard through bullet-riddled windows and broadcasted through the officer’s own radio.
Thirty hours later, one of the abducted officers lies in a hospital, a bullet wound through his hand and face. The other is found dead in the living room of the house, cuffed with his own handcuffs, his bloody flashlight nearby. All seven suspects are dead, shot by the department’s all-white TACTICAL Unit.
In addition to actual crime scene photos, the interviews with patrolmen, negotiators, tactical officers, command personnel, dispatchers, along with
over 1,000 pages of documents from the case file, including crime scene
photographs, witness statements, and transcribed radio transmissions will
give the reader an authentic recreation of the deadliest event in Memphis
police history.
Echoes of Shannon Street The Kidnapping and Murder of Officer Robert S Hester eBook James Howell Clay Boyce Dana Howell Kelly Nichols
Lots of grammatical errors in the Kindle edition which on occasion caused a bit of confusion but not enough to harm the account.I lived in Memphis then, was a paid firefighter in a suburb and like many in emergency services had a scanner.
I heard much of the conversation between Sanders, the primary bad guy and the police.
I'm going to say something rather controversial here which I have not read or heard before.
I believe there is a possibility the police administration actually waited as long as they did, (30 hours) to send in SWAT because they were concerned about the backlash from the black community if they went in and killed the black perpetrators.
When it was finally over and officer Hester was brought out dead, having been tortured terribly before his murder, sure enough the department was criticized by some black leaders for the killing of the perpetrators with some indicating little to no concern for officer Hester or his partner.
There are officers today who lived through it, felt helpless and frustrated while listening for hours to officer Hester's screams and pleadings for help and wanted to go in but were ordered to stand down.
The excuses for not allowing them to rescue Hester do not wash in my opinion.
It was a sad, terrible thing for the officers, the department and the citizens of Memphis and it should not be forgotten.
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Echoes of Shannon Street The Kidnapping and Murder of Officer Robert S Hester eBook James Howell Clay Boyce Dana Howell Kelly Nichols Reviews
After reading this book, I felt like for the first time since 1983 when I heard the news reports as a teenager, I understood what happened. I think the author's passion for getting to the truth of this incident and the time he spent doing it make this the best account of the incident.
In response to a previous rater, I feel like any picking and choosing about what statements to include and who to ignore would take away from the objectivity of this book. To be truly objective about history you have to take the good with the bad. Witnesses don't always see what they think they see and sometimes they are not being truthful. But if it's in the case file, it can't be totally ignored.
All said, I feel like Mr. Howell did a great job with this book and I thank him for writing it. I've always wanted to know more about what happened there. Most if not all of my questions were answered in the two days it took me to read this.
I purchased this book for a couple of different reasons.
1) I live in Memphis
2) I work in law enforcement and this incident was taught in the academy
3) I have a close personal friend that was an officer on scene when this all happened
With that being said, as I read the book I would ask my friend questions or read passages from the book to check on accuracy. We are both impressed with the writing and detail of events. My friend was one of the first cars on the scene, but was not interviewed for this book, and I can see how it takes them back to that horrible incident. In fact, they were to have been riding in that car in place of Officer Hester that day. My friend tells of the heroes of the Memhis Police Department that risked their own lives to help rescue Officer Schwill.
It's a page turner to the end, the details are near spot on.
I would certainly recommend this book not only to history readers but to anyone that has any doubt about the work that our police face on a daily basis. I am a born and bred Memphian and remember this tragedy. Reading about it has brought back the sadness I felt as it happened. The author does not spend time pushing his personal opinion of this tragedy not does he try to prove he simply has all of the facts organized to inform the reader of events. This book was a real page turner but not a subject one might want to read before sleep which is not the fault of the author but the event. Very informative.
I am from Memphis and remember how painful it was to listen to the news reports while this event was taking place. I thought the style of the book was very good for me to read. The perspective from the different people involved was interesting. There were a lot of details that weren't released at the time of the event. It shed more light on what happened during that 30 hours. I can understand how each group of people involved could have the feelings they had but I don't understand how people of any race could condone what happened to the police officers. They were assaulted first. I am sorry for the loss of all the people's lives on both sides. I feel that the time given to surrender was ample, therefore the police had to do something. The whole neighborhood was being affected by the incident. I hope the police department learned valuable lessons on how to negotiate with mentally ill people and officers have learned not to put themselves in imminent danger entering places full of people that could be unpredictable. And to those who participated in the whole thing, when you know what the laws are and you break them, be prepared to suffer the consequences. The grammar at times was not correct, but was still an easy and quick read. Hope something like this never happens again anywhere!
I'm going to preface this review by saying the book needed some serious editing. However, I'm an author so what I see as major problems might be easily overlooked. That being said, I've never had a book gut me the way this one did. I can count on one hand how many books brought tears to my eyes and this was one of them. This book elicited so many contradicting feelings in me, with the most overwhelming emotion being sorrow for the men and women who endured those 30 hours, and most importantly, sorrow for the officer who lost his life. The entire series of events was unfortunate. It seems that had Lindberg Sanders been on his medication, none of this would've happened. The system failed him and failed Hester. The officers handled things, in my honest opinion, as best as they could. I've lived in Memphis all my life and I was 5 when this happen. I vaguely remember images from TV and the name "Shannon Street." I'm familiar with all of the places mentioned, however the descriptions are well enough that, with Google Maps, you don't have to know the city to get an idea of the locations.
If you have proclivity for fact-based crime novels, I highly suggest this book.
Lots of grammatical errors in the edition which on occasion caused a bit of confusion but not enough to harm the account.
I lived in Memphis then, was a paid firefighter in a suburb and like many in emergency services had a scanner.
I heard much of the conversation between Sanders, the primary bad guy and the police.
I'm going to say something rather controversial here which I have not read or heard before.
I believe there is a possibility the police administration actually waited as long as they did, (30 hours) to send in SWAT because they were concerned about the backlash from the black community if they went in and killed the black perpetrators.
When it was finally over and officer Hester was brought out dead, having been tortured terribly before his murder, sure enough the department was criticized by some black leaders for the killing of the perpetrators with some indicating little to no concern for officer Hester or his partner.
There are officers today who lived through it, felt helpless and frustrated while listening for hours to officer Hester's screams and pleadings for help and wanted to go in but were ordered to stand down.
The excuses for not allowing them to rescue Hester do not wash in my opinion.
It was a sad, terrible thing for the officers, the department and the citizens of Memphis and it should not be forgotten.
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