Episode #76: Family Secrets Come to Light with Hiram Johnson

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Hiram Johnson is retired law enforcement officer, currently teaching criminal justice as an adjunct, a father, author and creator. His book Reason to Fight: a search or truth is a surprising tale of a family mystery.

We talked about the event that landed his grandmother in prison for murder, prison conditions for women in the 1920s, his search for his shrouded family history and the connection he developed with a previously unknown relative in the search for his grandfather’s identity.

Find Hiram’s books at Xulonpress.com 

00:00 START
06:26 Drink 1: the Blank Slate
8:14 Reading 1: Asking Daddy for the Truth
12:41 A quest leads to murder and miscegenation,
20:56 Creative non-fiction: fact vs conjecture
26:07 Drink 2: the Pot of Gold
28:50 Reading 2: My Mother Bernice
33:30 the need to know our family history
37:20 Did Fred’s father ever know the truth?
39:31 Drink 3: The Last Word
42:55 Reading 3: What Started it All
47:50 Convicted…for self-defense?
51:30 How Bernice faced the injustice
 
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