Episode 29: Notorious
“The Cardiff Giant Fools the Nation, 145 Years Ago,” HISTORY, August 22 2018, https://www.history.com/news/the-cardiff-giant-fools-the-nation-145-years-ago.
“For You Half Price,” New York Times, November 27 2005, https://www.nytimes.com/2005/11/27/nyregion/thecity/for-you-half-price.html.
“The ‘strange’ death of Warren G. Harding,” PBS, August 2 2015, https://www.pbs.org/newshour/health/strange-death-warren-harding.
“Meet Gaston Means, The Swindler Who Loved Ripping Off Bootleggers During Prohibition,” All That’s Interesting, May 26 2020, https://allthatsinteresting.com/gaston-means.
“Means, Gaston Bullock,” NCPedia, 1991, https://www.ncpedia.org/biography/means-gaston-bullock.
“GASTON MEANS DIES IN FEDERAL PRISON,” New York Times, December 13 1938, https://www.nytimes.com/1938/12/13/archives/gaston-means-dies-in-federal-prison-was-serving-15yearterm-for.html.
“Ohio Gang,” Ohio History Connection, https://ohiohistorycentral.org/w/Ohio_Gang.
“They call him The Greatest Faker of all Time,” The Daily News, August 21 1937, p. 11.
Lawrence Block, Gangsters, Swindlers, Killers, and Thieves: the Lives and Crimes of Fifty American Villains, (Oxford University Press, 2004).
“The Art of the Con and Why People Fall For It,” Psychology Today, https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/crime-she-writes/201909/the-art-the-con-and-why-people-fall-it.