{"id":2520,"date":"2009-07-12T10:39:23","date_gmt":"2009-07-12T14:39:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lizzieandrewborden.com\/MondoLizzie\/?p=2520"},"modified":"2009-07-12T10:39:23","modified_gmt":"2009-07-12T14:39:23","slug":"fall-river-history-club-meeting-for-july-15","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lizzieandrewborden.com\/mondolizzie\/fall-river-history-club-meeting-for-july-15\/","title":{"rendered":"Fall River History Club Meeting for July 15"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/lizzieandrewborden.com\/mondolizzie\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2009\/06\/hotnews_e0.gif\" alt=\"hotnews_e0\" title=\"hotnews_e0\" width=\"48\" height=\"28\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-2413\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>Fall River History Club meeting<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Wednesday, July 15, 2009, 6:30 pm<\/p>\n<p>Fall River Public Library, Fall River, MA<\/p>\n<p>FREE and open to the public.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Topic:  The Murder of John Bullock, 1862<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Bullock&#8217;s murder occurred in Freetown on June 12, 1862.<\/p>\n<p>Obed Reynolds, a 17 y\/o Freetown resident ambushed and killed John Bullock, a New Bedford &#8220;merchant&#8221; who was delivering some bootleg liquor to a Freetown home. The murder shocked local communities. Reynolds was convicted and sentenced to death, only to have the sentence commuted by the governor. <\/p>\n<p>The story of Obed&#8217;s life, apprehension, trial, conviction, and subsequent commutation read like a Lifetime movie script. To this day, a twisted piece of granite on Bullock Rd. marks the place of the murder which is documented superficially in the Phillip&#8217;s history of Fall River.<\/p>\n<p>Presented by Bill Goncalo<\/p>\n<p>See you there!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Fall River History Club meeting Wednesday, July 15, 2009, 6:30 pm Fall River Public Library, Fall River, MA FREE and open to the public. Topic: The Murder of John Bullock, 1862 Bullock&#8217;s murder occurred in Freetown on June 12, 1862. Obed Reynolds, a 17 y\/o Freetown resident ambushed and killed John Bullock, a New Bedford [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,10,5,12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2520","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-book-and-media-reviews","category-fall-river-news","category-on-the-web","category-unabashed-self-promotion"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lizzieandrewborden.com\/mondolizzie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2520","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lizzieandrewborden.com\/mondolizzie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lizzieandrewborden.com\/mondolizzie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lizzieandrewborden.com\/mondolizzie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lizzieandrewborden.com\/mondolizzie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2520"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lizzieandrewborden.com\/mondolizzie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2520\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lizzieandrewborden.com\/mondolizzie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2520"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lizzieandrewborden.com\/mondolizzie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2520"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lizzieandrewborden.com\/mondolizzie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2520"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}