John F. Fitzgerald John F. Fitzgerald John Francis "Honey Fitz" Fitzgerald (February 11, 1863 – October 2, 1950) was an American politician, father of Rose Kennedy and maternal grandfather of President John F. Kennedy. Fitzgerald was a Democratic congressman who went on to win two terms as mayor of Boston, and made several unsuccessful runs for Governor of Massachusetts. He made major improvements to the port, and became a patron of the baseball team now known as the Boston Red Sox. He maintained a high profile in the city, with his theatrical style of campaigning, and his personal charm and charisma that earned
Robert Scott (author) Robert Scott (author) Robert Scott (c. 1941 – January 9, 2015) was a "New York Times" best-selling American non-fiction author who wrote 20 true crime books. Scott attended Diablo Valley College. In the late 1990s, after reading newspaper accounts about a series of local murders, Scott, a delivery company driver at the time, began researching and writing a book about a couple, James Daveggio and Michelle Michaud, who committed murders in the county in which Scott lived. In 2001, Kensington Books, as a Pinnacle Books imprint, released his book about the couple's murderous crime spree, titled "Rope Burns". In November