Norco '80: The True Story of the Most Spectacular Bank Robbery in American History with Author Peter Houlihan. (2019)
William Ramsey Investigates
William Ramsey Investigates
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🗓️ 21 August 2024
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| 0:00.0 | All right, 321. Hi, this is William Ramsey. Welcome to William Ramsey Investigates on tonight's show. I have a very special guest who has recently published a superb true crime, nonfiction book that reads like a thriller. The title of the book is Norco 80, the true story of theacular Bank Robbery in American History. |
| 0:26.2 | The author's name is Peter Hulahan, and the book was recently published June 11, 2019. |
| 0:28.6 | He is a freelance writer. |
| 0:39.3 | He's had publications in such important websites or magazines at Salon, and he has an MFA from Sarah Lawrence College. |
| 0:43.9 | And I'm just delighted that he's here to talk about the book. |
| 0:44.9 | So, Peter, are you there? |
| 0:47.4 | I am. Thanks for having me, William. |
| 0:48.8 | Awesome. Well, thanks for being on the show. |
| 0:49.3 | I appreciate it. For people who may not know your name or your background, |
| 0:51.9 | can you talk a little bit about yourself and how you became interested in this particular crime case? |
| 0:58.5 | Sure. |
| 0:59.1 | My background in writing is, as you say, I've done some journalism, some book reviews for the Hirst Papers and AP wire and a lot of publications on a lot of subjects. |
| 1:08.8 | The Norco Bank robbery, the subject of the book, happened in 1980, in Riverside, |
| 1:14.1 | California, just outside of Los Angeles. And it happened when I was about 18 years old, |
| 1:18.7 | and I lived about 20 miles away from it. So I was completely captivated by the event when it |
| 1:24.5 | happened. And it has always stuck with me through the years. And I used to tell |
| 1:31.6 | people about it. And they would usually get two reactions. One is, did that really happen? And the other was, |
| 1:38.6 | how come I don't know about this? Well, yes, it really happened. And it's a, it happened on quite a grand scale. And the reason why not everybody knows about this. Well, yes, it really happened, and it happened on quite a grand scale. And the reason |
| 1:46.9 | why not everybody knows about it is because it came before the time of the internet and ubiquitous |
| 1:52.0 | video and 24-hour news stations and things like that. So news was more provincial. It was a national |
| 1:59.7 | story for a day or two. |
| 2:01.2 | And then it went back to being a provincial story. |
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