Paul Wortman wasn’t ALWAYS a middle class industrial salesman in a nice neat business suit

Paul, like his dad Stanley and his grandfather George before him, started out working in “The Shops”, the massive CNR repair and maintenance complex that was the main employer in Moncton for a century.

Rough, tough, physical blue collar labour.

He went on to do much the same at Stelco in Hamilton and then tried his luck in Cleveland, just south of Hamilton and another famous blue collar steelmaking town - probably in 1968 - as he refers inside baseball knowledge about the racial riots of that period.

Next Paul, speaking to FRANK MAGAZINE, speaks of the gang wars in Phoenix.

Now as it just happens, violence in Phoenix peaked in the early 1970s, when I believe Paul and Evelyn and Gabe were there.

In fact, Phoenix had the fastest growing crime rate in America at that time.

In the US, that’s no mean feat.

In fact the only murder of an investigative reporter in all American history, happened about then in Phoenix.

A good time to take Gabe home to Canada.

That, plus the fact that his first year in school in America required lots and lots of, ahem, documentation...