S2 E7: Shootout at the Dress Shop
Bad Women: The Blackout Ripper
Pushkin Industries
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🗓️ 15 November 2022
⏱️ 47 minutes
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Summary
Seamstress Doris Staples doesn't want to see Private John Waters any more... but the American soldier has other ideas. He goes to her workplace to make sure she doesn't "step out" with any other man... and carries with him a pistol.
Men were expected to seek an outlet for their sexual appetites, but any women who saw multiple partners or wanted to exit a relationship faced stigma, hostility and deadly violence.
Further reading:
Ashton, John R; Machin, David; Osmond, Clive; Balajaran, Rasaratnam; Adam, Sheila A and Donnan, Stuart P B. ‘Trends in Induced Abortion in England and Wales’, Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health, vol. 37, 1983, pp. 105 - 110.
Dryden, Steven. ‘A Short History of LGBT Rights in the UK’.
Ellwood, David. ‘The American Challenge in Uniform: The Arrival of America’s Armies in World War II and European Women’, European Journal of American Studies vol. 7, no. 2, 2012.
Laite, Julia. Common Prostitutes and Ordinary Citizens: Commercial Sex in London, 1885 - 1960 (Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2012).
Monckton Smith, Jane. In Control: Dangerous Relationships and How They End in Murder. (Bloomsbury Publishing, 2022).
Vickers, Emma. Queen and Country: Same-sex desire in the British Armed Forces, 1939-45. (Manchester University Press, 2013).
Wagner, Paul. The Youngest Crew (Cheyenne, WY: Lagumo Press, 1997).
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| 0:00.0 | A 34-year-old man was found bleeding to death on the street. |
| 0:03.6 | This man was Anthony Virgilio, Tony, to his friends. |
| 0:07.3 | Calvin Jones would spend 30 years in prison for Tony's murder. |
| 0:11.0 | And for 30 years, Calvin Jones would call my house and speak to my father. |
| 0:15.7 | What did my dad have to say to a convicted murderer? |
| 0:19.2 | When my dad died, he left behind a question. |
| 0:22.2 | Was he responsible for killing Tony Virgilio from Sonoro and Tenorfoot TV, the estate? |
| 0:28.0 | Listen to the estate wherever you get your podcasts. |
| 0:36.8 | Pushkin. |
| 0:41.3 | Easy Aaronson is losing his patience. |
| 0:45.2 | It's the third time today that American soldier Private John Waters |
| 0:49.7 | has pitched up at the dress shop looking for Aaronson's employee, Doris Staples. |
| 0:55.6 | Seems just Doris is also sick of the constant intrusions. |
| 1:00.4 | What does he want now? Better go out and see. |
| 1:04.4 | Doris steps out into the street. Perhaps he can get rid of Waters once and for all. |
| 1:10.6 | She tells him she won't be going out with him tonight, |
| 1:13.6 | and hopes this will end the conversation. |
| 1:16.7 | Go away, Johnny. I've got work to do. |
| 1:19.3 | It's four Thursday in the afternoon, but water's breath smells of drink. |
| 1:24.7 | Doris has been going on dates with him since February, but now it's mid-July, |
| 1:29.6 | and she increasingly finds Waters a drag. |
| 1:33.6 | The American is jealous and possessive. |
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