Rube Waddell: 5 books

When a prosecutor makes a rush to judgment before he knows all the facts, he is beginning to decide a case before it goes to trial. He insidiously develops a personal bias against the defendant. Prosecutorial action before trial can poison the minds of the public and potential jurors thus setting...

On 12 February 1973, the first of 591 POWs lifted off in a C-141 aircraft into the sky over North Vietnam returning these POWs to the USA in "Operation Homecoming". These POWs brought with them numerous tales of torture and maltreatment at the hands of NVA interrogators. Some POWs never...

This novel, FORGET ME! NOT! is the dramatic, although tragic, fictionalized account of a volunteer, undercover Air Force pilot serving his tour as an O-1 Bird Dog Forward Air Controller in a secret war in the Kingdom of Laos. After being shot down and badly burned in the shoot down, he became a POW...

The Meinhard Hoffmann German-American family was rounded-up during an FBI sweep when US entered World War II and was sent back to Germany. An eighteen year old son, Christolph Hoffmann, was instantly drafted by Germany's Wehrmacht. Christolph, a US citizen and fluent in English, was tagged for saboteur...

As more and more returning POWs talk about their experiences in Hanoi prisons, "The Cuban Program" becomes a troubling sore spot within the State Department and Congress. It is shoveled under the rug and becomes an 'out-of-sight-out-of-mind' issue. As the issue settles into oblivion, the...