242: Murder on the Berwind w/ Charles Oldham - A True Crime History Podcast

Most Notorious! A True Crime History Podcast

Erik Rivenes

True Crime, History, Education

4.7 • 2.8K Ratings

🗓️ 3 May 2022

⏱️ 68 minutes

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Summary

In October of 1905, the schooner Harry A. Berwind was intercepted off the coast of North Carolina. On board were four Black sailors, three of them alive and one dead. The survivors told conflicting stories - blaming each other for the murder of the ship's four White officers, who had been shot and thrown into the sea. The men would be arrested and tried for murder in Wilmington (which had suffered deadly racial violence only a few years before) and an intense legal drama would follow, ultimately involving the Supreme Court and President Theodore Roosevelt. In the end, so many participants - from jurors to lawyers to participants - acted against type that justice had a fighting chance.

My guest is Charles Oldham, author of "Ship of Blood: Mutiny and Slaughter Aboard the Harry A. Berwind, and the Quest for Justice". He shares details of this sensational yet largely forgotten story in American history.

More about the author's work can be discovered here: https://charlesoldhamauthor.com/

The Audible version of his book can be purchased here: https://www.audible.com/pd/Ship-of-Blood-Mutiny-and-Slaughter-aboard-the-Harry-A-Berwind-and-the-Quest-for-Justice-Audiobook/B09TG7S41S

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1:36.0	Welcome all to another episode of the most notorious podcast, I'm Eric Rivenes, and grateful that you are here with me for yet another interview.
1:47.0	Well, I'm so happy to have Charles Oldham with me.
1:52.0	He is a native son of North Carolina, and an attorney who served a term as president of the Lee County Bar Association,
2:01.0	and had a legal practice that focused on criminal defense and civil litigation.
2:08.0	His first book, The Award Winning, The Senators' Son, was published in 2018.
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2:20.0	It's a book called Ship of Blood, Mutiny and Slotter aboard the Harry A. Burwin and the Quest for Justice.
2:29.0	Thank you so much for coming on.
2:32.0	Well, thank you for having me.
2:34.0	So where did you first hear about the story, and did you pretty quickly realize that it was a story that you wanted to write a book about?
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