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Jack Fitzgerald

Jack Fitzgerald was born and educated in St. John's, Newfoundland. During his career he has been a journalist, a feature writer and political columnist with the St. John's Daily News; a reporter and public affairs writer with CJON and VOCM News Services; editor of the Newfoundland Herald and the Newfoundland Chronicle. During the last years of the Smallwood administration he was assistant director of Public Relations with the Government of Newfoundland and Labrador. He has also worked as Assistance Officer with the Department of Social Services. Jack Fitzgerald also hosted a regular radio program featuring off-beat Newfoundland stories on radio station VOFM.

Books by Jack Fitzgerald

Hell's Flames to Heaven's Gate

Regatta

Jack Fitzgerald's Treasury of Newfoundland Stories, Volume III

Rum-runners and Mobsters

Treasury of Newfoundland Stories Volume II

Jack Fitzgerald's Treasury of Newfoundland Stories, Volume I

Peculiar Facts and Tales of Newfoundland

1949

Spring Rice Document, The

Battlefront Newfoundland

Remarkable Stories of Newfoundland

Crimes That Shocked Newfoundland

The Jack Ford Story

Jack Ford Story, The

Legacy of Laughter

Newfoundland Adventures

Ghosts & Oddities

Ten Steps to the Gallows

Newfoundland Disasters

Untold Stories

Day at the Races, A

Beyond the Grave

Jack Fitzgerald's Notebook (revised edition)

Beyond Belief

Hangman is Never Late, The

Where Angels Fear to Tread

Another Time, Another Place

Newfoundland Fireside Stories

Strange But True Newfoundland Stories

Amazing Newfoundland Stories