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Who Killed...?

Andy Puopolo: An Interview with award winning author Jan Brogan Pt. 1

Who Killed...?

Bill Huffman

True Crime, Society & Culture, History

3.8 • 595 Ratings

🗓️ 29 September 2023

⏱️ 45 minutes

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Summary

Jan Brogan has been a journalist for more than thirty years, working as a correspondent for the Boston Globe, a staff writer for the Worcester Telegram and the Providence Journal, where she won the Gerald Loeb award for distinguished business writing. She is the award-winning author of four mysteries, Final Copy, Confidential Source, Yesterday’s Fatal, and Teaser. Transactional Pictures, (Steven Soderbergh and Philip Fleishman) purchased the rights to A Confidential Source, which is currently under development for a television series. The Combat Zone is a true account of a brutal murder, two flawed trials and the not so delicate balance between justice and revenge. It tells the story of an annual Harvard ritual that sent forty football players into Boston’s crime-plagued red light district for a “last drink, together,” and the death of a heroic 21-year-old cornerback who tries to save a friend. The Combat Zone shows how a murder trial isn’t always about the victim or the accused but about a city in turmoil and a criminal justice system in need of reform. Shortlisted for a 2022 Anthony Award and a 2021 Agatha Award https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tjOmeAGWgLI https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BXfgXhz5Dkc You can buy her book THE COMBAT ZONE: Murder, Race, and Boston’s Struggle for Justice at https://janbrogan.com/the-combat-zone/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

Slow Burn Media, Evergreen Podcast, presents Who Killed? A podcast that provides a voice for the voiceless.

0:12.9

But aside from the two senators, there was another man who was the subject of placards, Judge W. Arthur Garrity, Jr.

0:20.0

The general consensus was the Garrity deserved to be hanged.

0:23.6

A new touch was the abundance of tea bags, apparently to signify the demonstrate,

0:27.6

that the demonstrators were in the same vein as those who tip the tea into the harbor.

0:31.6

There were American flags, and of course there were special t-shirts. He knew he was in hostile territory.

0:50.3

But never before had a Kennedy been met with such a reception in Boston. He was booed.

0:56.0

The crowd would not calm down. They shouted at him. Some said, kill him. Even the speakers

1:01.5

could not calm the crowd. The audience made the gesture of turning their backs on Kennedy.

1:06.3

His attempt to speak failing, he left the platform. The crowd surged towards this one's favorite son.

1:12.4

It was a strange crowd to surround a Kennedy. As he walked towards the federal building,

1:16.8

tomatoes and newspapers started flying,'s episode of Who Killed.

1:39.4

I'm your host, Bill Huffman, and this is a slow burn media, Evergreen Podcasts, and Killer Podcasts production.

1:47.6

I'm very lucky to be joined this week by author Jan Brogan, who has a new book. Welcome to the show.

1:58.9

Thank you very much. Thanks for having me on.

2:01.5

What is it that we're here to talk about?

2:03.9

This is an interesting case.

2:06.1

And I know that you're a novelist and author and this book is very interesting.

2:12.6

And the case that we're here to talk about, it's very intriguing and it goes back about 40 plus years.

2:22.4

Give us a little background on what we were talking about today.

2:25.2

So I'm a journalist by training. I also write fiction and I wrote four murder mysteries.

2:31.5

What I kept saying was I knew I could write a story. I knew I felt like I got

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