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Thompson's father, known as "Big Jim" Thompson, was a teacher for a decade in Burwell, Nebraska before his son's birth; his wife and Jim's mother, Birdie Myers, was a former student. He moved the family to Anadarko , Oklahoma Territory, and was elected sheriff of Caddo County .
Jim Thompson was born in Greenville, Delaware in 1906. [2] He was the youngest of five children of Henry and Mary Wilson Thompson.His father was a wealthy textile manufacturer; his mother was the daughter of James Harrison Wilson (1837–1925), a noted Union general during the American Civil War.
The Legendary American: The Remarkable Career and Strange Disappearance of Jim Thompson. Houghton Mifflin. ISBN 978-0-395-08302-4. Warren, William (1998). Jim Thompson: The Unsolved Mystery. Archipelago Press. ISBN 978-981-3018-82-2. Kurlantzick, Joshua (2011). The Ideal Man: The Tragedy of Jim Thompson and the American Way of War. Hoboken, NJ ...
While he retained his U.S. citizenship, Thompson is a permanent resident of Hong Kong, where he has lived since 1978 with his wife Sally, who is a British national. Thompson's daughter Jennifer serves as Crown's Group CEO. She lives in New York City with her husband and three children. Thompson also has a son, James III, who has 3 daughters ...
Thompson claimed in his 2003 book Kingdom of Fear that he had worked for a while in 1985 as night manager at the club, an assertion repeated by some news articles. [14] Thompson also claimed that the Mitchell brothers smuggled guns to the IRA. [15] Jim and Artie Mitchell supported various cartoonists, Dan O'Neill among them.
Michael Thompson, 69, seen during a 2021 podcast recording session, was found guilty in Lake County, Calif., on Tuesday, Dec. 11, 2024, on charges of collecting more than $100,000 in fraudulent ...
Theresa Knorr was born on March 14, 1946, in Sacramento, California, the younger of two daughters born to Swannie Gay (née Myers) and James "Jim" Cross. Theresa's mother had a son and a daughter from a previous marriage. Her father worked as an assistant cheese maker at a local dairy, eventually saving up enough money to buy a house in Rio Linda.
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