FBI Fidelity, Bravery, Integrity: An Autobiography - Softcover

Wright, James R.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1440177627 ISBN 13: 9781440177620

Verlag: iUniverse, 2009

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As the self-proclaimed Huckleberry Finn of Woodbury, New Jersey, who would have guessed that James Wright's life would take him through sports, college, and into the FBI. He spent a carefree childhood roaming the rivers and woods of Woodbury with his dog, Golly. Those rivers, lakes and woods were his Mississippi River. His love for sports led him into another world. What a great day it was - a boy and his dad going to a baseball game together. Next came his wrestling days during high school and college. All of these experiences gave him the self-discipline that he would need later in life. He thought that teaching and coaching would be his life's work, but quite unexpectedly, he ended up in the FBI. He was privileged to work some of the Bureau's highest profile cases such as the Patty Hearst kidnapping, Jim Jones and the People's Temple mass suicide, the Unabomber, the Chowchilla kidnapping of twenty-six children, and many more cases. He's had a great life with many wonderful memories, but the icing on the cake was his induction into the National Wrestling Hall of Fame as an Outstanding American. He is proud to be an American and this is his story!

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James Wright retired as a special agent with the FBI in January of 1997. Since retiring, he has continued working as a special investigator for the Bureau, but full retirement is just around the corner. He and his wife, Sharon, have a combined family of nine children and twenty-two grandchildren.

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FBI Fidelity, Bravery, Integrity

An AutobiographyBy James R. Wright

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Contents

Acknowledgments.....................................................................vForward.............................................................................viiChapter 1 Modern-day Huck Finn......................................................1Chapter 2 School, Sports, and More..................................................7Chapter 3 Brigham Young University..................................................14Chapter 4 Early Marriage............................................................23Chapter 5 Teaching and Coaching.....................................................33Chapter 6 FBI Training..............................................................41Chapter 7 FBI-New Haven, Connecticut................................................50Chapter 8 Transfer to San Francisco.................................................56Chapter 9 Work and Play.............................................................69Chapter 10 Kidnapping-Innocent Victims..............................................78Chapter 11 Bank Robbery Cases.......................................................84Chapter 12 Jim Jones and the People's Temple........................................100Chapter 13 In the Service of Your Fellow Man........................................107Chapter 14 Twenty Years with the FBI................................................115Chapter 15 A New Enemy..............................................................129Chapter 16 Transfer to Salt Lake City...............................................138Chapter 17 Justice Township.........................................................149Chapter 18 A New Beginning..........................................................160Chapter 19 Memories-National Wrestling Hall of Fame-A Good Life.....................167

Chapter One

Modern-day Huck Finn

Writing about one's life can often be tedious, but it is also a great source of joy as memories appear on the written page. I was born September 29, 1943, in Salem, New Jersey, the third boy in the family. I am surprised that my dear mother didn't call it quits after having three boys. My parents had five sons who lived and then finally had a daughter, Elizabeth Elin. Half of us boys feel that we owe our very existence to the fact that my parents kept trying to have a daughter. When I was a year old, my parents moved to Woodbury, New Jersey and bought their first home at 359 South Girard Street, where I lived until I went away to college.

I'm sure my mother didn't have any idea that I would be such a roaming, carefree little boy. Who would have guessed that my life would take me through sports, college, and into the FBI? There were probably some townspeople who thought that Jimmy Wright wouldn't grow up to be worth a plug nickel. But I think that I probably changed their minds through the years as I worked hard to earn money, excelled in sports, and even went on to attend and graduate from college. I hope that they were smiling many years later as they read in the newspapers about my life as an agent in the FBI, working some of the best cases in the Bureau, and about my induction into the National Wrestling Hall of Fame as an outstanding American. The Wright boy turned out okay after all.

As a curious child, I was the self-proclaimed Huckleberry Finn of Woodbury, New Jersey. Woodbury was a wonderful place for a boy to live, and I spent my youth loving to fish and hunt. The woods, lakes, and rivers around Woodbury were my Mississippi River. There was one lake three blocks from my home in one direction and another lake one block from my home in another direction. The lakes were full of large- and small-mouth bass, calico bass, sunfish, blue gills, perch, catfish, and carp. In the woods were rabbits, pheasant, and quail.

I loved to fish in those lakes. I remember fishing from the top of a large pipe that separated two lakes. I caught a lot of fish, and I'd give them to the fishermen there, who would take them home to eat. One day I caught a giant carp. I ran up the street and a neighbor took my picture with the carp. For a young man, that was quite a thrill.

I never got into serious trouble, but I am sure that my mother was sometimes exasperated with me because I was constantly bringing home rabbits, fish, pheasants, quail, and muskrats-dead, of course.

My companion was my dog, Golly, and occasionally my friends or my brother Jeff were involved in my adventures. Golly was a great hunting dog, brown and white and part beagle. I don't have a clue what the other parts were, but he sure was fast for having such short legs. He would always chase out rabbits so that I could shoot them. One time I shot a quail that landed in a lake and I remember Golly jumping into the lake, swimming out, getting the quail, and bringing it back to me.

One day while I was hunting, I saw a rabbit running through an asparagus field and heard Golly barking. I shot several feet in front of where I thought Golly was and immediately he stopped barking. I thought for sure that I had killed him, so I dropped my gun and ran in his direction. Golly was looking down at the dead rabbit. I certainly learned from that experience, and would never again shoot what I could not see.

I was very fortunate to have good parents, Joseph Humphries Wright and Elinor Louise Wright. They stayed married to each other all their adult lives. My father was a very good man, but scraped by most of his life because he did not have a lot of money. He worked hard, though, and always had a job. I remember one Christmas when all of the boys in our family received a bicycle. I will never know how our parents could afford to give each of us a bike. What a wonderful Christmas that was.

I was baptized a member of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints at eight years of age. My family used to attend church in Camden, New Jersey, and the only baptismal font was in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, so I was baptized in Philadelphia. It was a thrill for me to walk over the Benjamin Franklin Bridge between Camden and Philadelphia.

We got our share of snow and cold winter weather in Woodbury. I used to go sledding, and I would go ice-skating on the lakes near our home. Once in a while, when the ice would cave in, I would fall in water up to my neck. By the time I got home, I would be a walking icicle. It's a wonder that I lived through those years.

Each summer my aunt and uncle, Margaret and Walter Wright, invited my brother and I to stay with them for a week in Cape May, New Jersey. We loved our time in Cape May, fishing, swimming, and just having fun. One day my cousin Walt and I went down to the boardwalk, which was full of amusements. It was built with boards that had spaces between them. When people would pull out their money they would often drop some between the spaces in the boards. Walt and I would go under the boardwalk, sift through the sand, and find a lot of lost coins there. It was fun finding them and having spending money in our pockets.

When I was around eight or nine years old, I joined a little league team and found out that sports came very easy for me. Between ages nine and twelve, I was on a little league team called the Lions. I had good coaches and I loved the sport of baseball. My two main positions were shortstop and pitcher. Over the years I received several awards in baseball, but the...

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• Verlag: iUniverse
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2009
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 1440177627
• ISBN 13: 9781440177620
• Einband: Taschenbuch
• Anzahl der Seiten: 188
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