New immigrants, and new kinds of crime, were flooding the city and the old Irish cops on the beat didn’t understand either. It was time to launch a special force. They called it “The Italian Squad.”
The handwritten verses were delivered in 1984 to Tom Harvey, editor of a weekly newspaper, the Fort Fairfield Review, circulation 2,000. It hinted that the writer who signed as “The Mystery Guest” knew something about two 1960s murders.
Marsha P. Johnson and others were on the front lines of the Stonewall Riots in 1969. Get to know the leaders who created a turning point in the gay rights movement.