Murder is the Charge: The True Story of Mayor Charlie Robertson and the York, Pennsylvania, Race Riots

A blunt, angry recounting from the defense lawyers’ point of view that underscores the no-holds-barred approach of the accusers and the accused unleashed during the trial. It also shows that the anger that lay stagnant for decades in the community remains. Tom Squitieri, USA Today Bill Costopoulos pulls no punches—either inside or outside of the courtroom—in this provocative and lively account of the nationally covered trial. Dr. Terry Madonna, director of the Center for Politics and Public Affairs, Millersville University   Eleven days of hell was how those charged with restoring order to York, Pennsylvania described the July 1969 riots. The false accusation of a young African American boy against a group of white gang youths incited mayhem that quickly escalated from throwing rocks to indiscriminate shooting between blacks and whites. With the city out of control, then Governor Raymond Shafer called in the National Guard. In the end, the toll came to two dead—Henry Schaad, a