1960s Austin Gangsters
Organized Crime That Rocked the Capital
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1960s Austin Gangsters
Narrated by:
George Newbern
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Narrated by:
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George Newbern
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Jesse Sublett
About this listen
Timmy Overton of Austin and Jerry Ray James of Odessa were football stars who traded athletics for lives of crime. The original rebels without causes, nihilists with Cadillacs and Elvis hair, the Overton gang and their associates formed a ragtag white trash mafia that bedazzled Austin law enforcement for most of the 1960s.
Tied into a loose network of crooked lawyers, pimps, and used car dealers who became known as the "traveling criminals," they burglarized banks and ran smuggling and prostitution rings all over Texas.
Author Jesse Sublett presents a detailed account of these Austin miscreants, who rose to folk hero status despite their violent criminal acts.
©2015 Jesse Sublett (P)2015 Tantor Media
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