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    The Tower: Events, Music, Movies and Serial Killers Of The 1960's
    The Tower: Events, Music, Movies and Serial Killers Of The 1960's
    The Tower: Events, Music, Movies and Serial Killers Of The 1960's
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    The Tower: Events, Music, Movies and Serial Killers Of The 1960's

    By S.D. Gripton and Sally Dillon-Snape

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    During the 1960's, while most of us were revelling in the wonder of the greatest popular music of all time, while we were sitting together in the back seats of cinemas with people we liked, and looking on while the world changed in front of our eyes, some sick individuals were only interested in the killing of their fellow man. This is a book about some of them, men and women, who caused pain and suffering regardless of all the happiness spreading around them. This was a time of Beatles and Stones, of Beachboys and The Doors, of hippies, free love and fun, but to the serial killers, people were only there to be murdered, nothing else.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherS.D. Gripton
    Release dateJan 27, 2012
    ISBN9781466138971
    The Tower: Events, Music, Movies and Serial Killers Of The 1960's
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    S.D. Gripton

    S.D. Gripton novels and real crime books are written by Dennis Snape, who is married to Sally who originate from North Wales and Manchester respectively and who met 18 years ago. I work very hard to make a reading experience a good one, with good plots and earthy language. I enjoy writing and hope readers enjoy what I have written. I thank everyone who has ever looked at at one of my books.

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      The Tower - S.D. Gripton

      THE TOWER

      EVENTS, MUSIC, MOVIES AND SERIAL KILLERS OF THE 1960's

      Edited & Written By

      S.D. Gripton & Sally Dillon-Snape

      © S.D. Gripton & Sally Dillon-Snape (2022)

      The moral right of the author is hereby asserted in accordance with The Copyright Act 1988

      All characters and events in this publication other than those of fact and historical significance available in the public domain are fictitious and any resemblance to actual persons living and dead is purely coincidental

      All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in retrieval systems, or transmitted in any form or by any means without the written permission of the publisher

      This book is dedicated to the victims

      Front Cover by Snape

      ***

      INTRODUCTION

      While millions of people in the Western World, male and female, were taking advantage of the introduction of the Pill in the early 1960's, when a sexual revolution was taking place; at a time when The Beatles, The Stones, The Beach Boys and a myriad of Motown groups and singers, as well as hundreds of other groups were leading their own revolution in music; when hippies were growing in prominence and drugs were sneaking their way into society; when some great movies were being made and genuine political revolution was in the air and on everyone's lips; a certain number of people took very little part in the joy or the excitement of the decade.

      These were the Serial Killers of the 1960's except the term ‘Serial Killer’ was never used until 1974, so the killers of the 1960’s must have been just people who killed a lot – multiple killers. For all intents and purposes though, these people were Serial Killers of the very worst type – a lot of them have had movies made of them, plays have been written, TV series shown; the 1960’s was the age of the Serial Killer before they were even invented.

      There have always been Serial Killers, of course, almost since the beginning of time; there was King Herod who murdered babies in an effort to extinguish Jesus before he grew to manhood; Genghis Khan (who lived around 1162), and who suddenly took against half the known world and set out to exterminate it; Vlad The Impaler (died 1476), upon whom the Dracula legend is based, but during the 1960's there was a certain redefining of the art, the crimes seemingly more cruel, more personal, like the ones committed by the detestable Richard Speck or ones that were uniquely random, like those of Charles J. Whitman. It was during these years that the Boston Strangler, Albert De Salvo, rode the range, when the Zodiac Killer was never found, and Charles Manson was instructing his girls in the art of killing. It was when Peter Tobin, Bible John, began a murderous quest that is still being investigated today, with information being sought into any number of murders. It was the time of William MacDonald, Australia's first known genuine Serial Killer and of Gilbert Paul Jordan of Canada.

      The world saw an explosion of these types of killers during the 1960's, when they became unforgettable, almost all of them being written about in best-selling books; many having movies made about their lives and their killings or TV plays or theatrical plays or artistic depictions; these killers were fawned upon and made heroes of or were despised as devils like the English Moors Murderers, Ian Brady and Mira Hindley, child killers both, each blaming the other for the deaths.

      How many of today's killers are just copycats? How many have tried to emulate Whitman, the first University killer, or killer on any educational campus? How many have followed him? How many have tried not to be detected like The Zodiac Killer? Lots of them. In fact, many of them have succeeded.

      So, while the World in general was having fun, drinking too much, making love too often, meddling with drugs while listening to some of the greatest music ever recorded, watching great movies and marching on endless protests, certain people were only interested in the deaths of others.

      I give you a selection of those events, the music, the movies and the killers of the decade, but please don't think I have any admiration for those who killed. In the main, they were despicable people, none more so that Richard Speck, a person who never did an honorable deed in his whole life and who should never have been allowed to join the human race.

      I am not a journalist, I am simply a writer, so If I have allowed any of my personal feelings to seep into some of the comments I have to say, that it is not what I am thinking. What I am thinking would be unprintable.

      s.d. gripton

      CHAPTER ONE

      August 1966

      Cultural Revolution in China

      Mao Zedong, the Chinese leader, began an internal cultural revolution in May of 1966, with the stated aims of enforcing socialism in the country by removing capitalist and traditional and bourgeois cultural elements from Chinese society. Mao ordered the closure of all schools and demanded the youth reinstate the political purity of the original revolution that brought Mao to power. Fanatical youths formed The Red Guard, the little Red Book was produced containing quotes from Mao, and 1.5 million Chinese were killed, persecuted, tortured, raped and disgraced over many years. The Cultural Revolution lasted ten years until the death of Mao.

      ***

      Music

      Out Of Time

      (Jagger/Richards)

      Chris Farlowe

      UK #1

      This was Chris Farlowe's only UK #1. Farlowe (real name John Henry Deighton b. 13th Oct 1940 and still touring in 2019) was inspired by Lonnie Donegan’s music and his own musical career began when he formed his own group, The John Henry Skiffle Group. When he was a solo singing star, he recorded five Jagger/Richards songs but only Out Of Time was a #1 for him. Farlowe’s other huge hit was Handbags and Gladrags, written by Mike d’Arbo, a former lead singer of Manfred Mann.

      Out Of Time was released on 12th July 1966. It was recorded at the Olympic Studios, London, England and released on Immediate Records and was produced by Mick Jagger of Rolling Stones fame.

      ***

      Wild Thing

      (Chip Taylor)

      The Troggs

      US # 1

      The song was written by New Yorker Chip Taylor (b. 21st Oct 1940; real name James Wesley Voight; he is the brother of Jon Voight and an uncle to Angelina Jolie) and was originally recorded in 1965 by The Wild Ones, a group out of New York.

      The version by the English pop group The Troggs; lead singer Reg Presley (real name Reginald Maurice Ball; (b. 12th Oct 1941 – d. 4th Feb 2013); was to conquer the world, reaching #1 on the Billboard Chart in July 1966. It was released on the Fontana label in the U.S. and was produced by Larry Page.

      The song was given a new lease of life when Jimi Hendrix sang a 9’46" version of it at the Monterey Festival on June 18th 1967. Many believe it is the greatest live song ever performed.

      ***

      Movie

      Fantastic Voyage

      Starring:

      Stephen Boyd/Raquel Welch/Edmond O’Brien/ Donald Pleasance

      Directed by:

      Richard Fleischer

      Released August 1966

      This was a successful science fiction movie about miniaturization, when a submarine full of people, the actors Stephen Boyd, Raquel Welch, Edmond O'Brien and Donald Pleasance, are made small and injected into the body of the character Dr Jan Benes, a Russian Cold War defector, who has survived an assassination attempt but who has a blood clot on the brain which the miniaturized crew are going in to repair. It was so successful that an animated TV series followed in 1968.

      The screenplay for the movie was by Harry Kleiner, from a story by Jerome Bixby and Otto Klement. It was produced by Saul David, and directed by Richard Fleischer. It was the last 20th Century Fox movie to be released using the Cinemascope process.

      It cost $5.1 million to make and took $12 million at the box office.

      There were rumors in 2016 that a remake of the movie was to be made but in 2019 this has so far happened.

      ***

      Serial Killer

      Charles Whitman carries out a murderous assault from the Clock Tower of Texas University in Austin

      1st August 1966

      THE TOWER

      'I don't think the poor woman has ever enjoyed life as she is entitled to. She was a simple woman who married a possessive and dominating man.'

      ‘I have absolutely no idea why I killed the woman.

      I loved her, but I'd just choked her until she was unconscious then I stabbed her through the heart. I don't think she suffered. I didn't want her to suffer. I tried to do it as mercifully as possible.’

      Her name was Margaret Frances and I cannot relate to you just how much I loved her but she hadn't had much of a life, she hadn't had the happiness she was entitled to, she’d never fulfilled her potential, was never given the chance. Just about every week of her married life she was beaten, sometimes more than once a week, she was a punchbag for her husband, a wicked non-person, she was someone who gave birth to three children as if that was all that was required of her.

      She was my mother.

      A sweet woman and I'd just stabbed her in the heart and killed her.

      As well as not wanting her to suffer any further, I didn't want to cause her any embarrassment, I didn't want her to be alive when I do what I am going to do, she wouldn't have liked it, wouldn't have understood.

      I don't understand it myself. I am twenty-five years old and supposed to be an averagely

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