Against All Tides, Marv Truhe
Against All Tides, Marv Truhe
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Against All Tides
The Untold Story of the USS Kitty Hawk Race Riot

Author: Marv Truhe

Narrator: David Stifel

Unabridged: 12 hr

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Tantor Media

Published: 12/26/2023

Synopsis

Simmering racial tensions inflamed by discriminatory punitive measures sparked a violent confrontation aboard the USS Kitty Hawk while it was engaged in air strikes off the coast of North Vietnam.

The US Navy charged Black sailors with rioting and assaults on White sailors in an incident referred to as a race riot, while totally ignoring violent unprovoked assaults committed by White sailors and Marines.

Author Marv Truhe was a Navy JAG defense lawyer seeking justice for the accused Black sailors. Truhe possesses one of the most complete collections of original source documents of the Kitty Hawk incident and its legal aftermath—trial transcripts, investigation reports, hundreds of sworn statements and medical reports, federal court pleadings, and case files and witness interviews.

How could virtually all official and unofficial accounts of the incident have placed blame for the incident solely on twenty-three Black sailors? How could they have been subjected to blatant racial injustices without their story being told until now?

It is time to reveal the uncomfortable answers to these questions and expose the injustices perpetrated against these twenty-three young men.

About Marv Truhe

Marv Truhe served as a Navy JAG lawyer and military judge during the Vietnam War. Following his military service, he was an assistant attorney general for South Dakota before entering private practice. He defended six of the Black sailors charged with rioting and assaults in the USS Kitty Hawk incident. He lives in Denver, Colorado.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Larry on April 16, 2023

Larry Brown April 16, 2023 Marv Truhe’s explicit attention to the finest detail in an extremely complicated legal defense of 25 innocent Blacks is astonishing. It appears the Navy made a bad mistake initially charging these men, then dug their hole deeper and deeper, trying to cover it up. Sadly, the......more

Goodreads review by Charles on November 15, 2022

At first glance this book appears to be a war story, when actually it is much more than that: it is a very telling story about civil rights in 1972. In 1948 President Harry Truman integrated the U.S. military or, at least, he tried. In 1965 President Lyndon Johnson persuaded Congress to pass the Civ......more

Goodreads review by Steve on December 22, 2022

Our sense of history is influenced by the experiences and bias of our families, communities, and schools. Do we have the will and strength to examine that, to become aware of what has been overlooked or disregarded? It can take decades for us to develop the perspective we need. Against All Tides, by......more

Goodreads review by John on January 25, 2023

4-1/2⭐️ Book! Fascinating unknown story of the race riot aboard the aircraft carrier, Kitty Hawk in 1972. The description of wide spread racial discrimination in the Navy was startling, but not unexpected given the times in this country!......more

Goodreads review by JerryDeanHalleck on November 15, 2023

Nothing really wrong with this book but it wasn't what I was looking for . I assumed it was an objective history of he Race Riot aboard the USS Kitty Hawk in October 1972. Instead, its the story of the TRIAL of the black sailors who were charged with assault and rioting. After giving us about 100 pa......more

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