The media needed something to counteract recent events. blacks are targeting police. The public may just shake off its lethargy and realize that blacks commit half the violent crime.
A white guy from 50 years ago is just what they needed.
I was up at Great Lakes Naval Training Center, a short distance from Chicago when it happened. Amazed it was so long ago.
50 years ago girls attending college were not allowed to live off campus except at home with their parents. No apartments and no men allowed in the dorms.
These nurses were cutting edge . . .
“It just wasn’t their night,” Speck said.
I remember reading a paperback about this back in the ‘60’s.
I was still in grade school, so maybe that is why I was so surprised at how easy it was for this murderer to get to women and be allowed into their homes, their bedrooms.
Lots of reasons for such unfeeling violence against innocents.
One big question we must ask and ANSWER and remedy, is why our families are broken.
Good start: C. S. Lewis “The Abolition of Man”.
The tv show Mad Men featured this murder in one episode. The morbid fascination with the horrific event resulted in sheer terror at night when two of the characters...Sally (a child) and her repugnant babysitter tried to sleep.
Richard Speck was REWARDED with a lifetime of free room and board. A videotape surfaced showing Speck, who was undergoing transgender mutilation, partying in his cell.
IIRC, he was quoted as saying something like, “If Americans only know what I was doing now ...”
THAT was the failure. He should have been executed. Instead, he died of heart failure.
Wonder what happened to him that his conscience died? And, whoever fixed that jury so he wouldn’t be executed should have been hanged.
It’d be interesting to go back and examine rates of firearms purchases as a variable relative to high-profile crimes such as this - then fill in the graph on a year-by-year basis.
What motivates people more - high rates of crime or political instability.
Speck used a knife or strangulation to kill the women. He was also sexually perverted like many mass murderers.
WTF does this have to do with current events?
NBC is not the History Channel.
This is an obvious attempt to steer eyes away from current events.
NBC and the rest of the MSM are bought and paid for.
I wonder if there were other Speck rampages that no one knows about because of the lack of survivors?
August 1 will be the 50th anniversary of the University of Texas Tower shooter, Charles Whitman. He killed 16. There was no assault weapon to blame, just Whitman, who was evidently a mental case.
I can remember cringing in disbelief watching the events on tv.
There was the first mass shooting atrocity about two weeks later when Charles Joseph Whitman went into the tower at the University of Texas, Austin, and shot about twenty people before an officer killed him. Spec and Whitman seem to have started the whole mass murder thing.
Ping
I remember. It was shocking at the time.
A book which gives a different and interesting perspective on both the Son of Sam killer (David Berkowitz) and Charley Manson is Ultimate Evil : The Truth about the Cult Murders: Son of Sam and Beyond. The author, Maury Terry, alleges their acts went beyond the publically accepted version and had connections with Satanic cultism. When I read it, it gave me chills, though some readers poo-poo the whole idea. Still an interesting read.
https://www.amazon.com/Ultimate-Evil-Truth-Murders-Beyond/product-reviews/0760713936/ref=cm_cr_dp_qt_hist_one?ie=UTF8&filterByStar=one_star&showViewpoints=0