1960s Austin Gangsters

Name: 1960s Austin Gangsters
Brand: Tantor Media, Inc
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Organized Crime that Rocked the Capital

Author: Jesse Sublett

Narrated by: George Newbern

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05:00.00

Available: 7th October 2025

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Timmy Overton of Austin and Jerry Ray James of Odessa were football stars who traded athletics for lives of crime. The original rebels without causes, nihilists with Cadillacs and Elvis hair, the Overton gang and their associates formed a ragtag white trash mafia that bedazzled Austin law enforcement for most of the 1960s. Tied into a loose network of crooked lawyers, pimps, and used car dealers who became known as the "traveling criminals," they burglarized banks and ran smuggling and prostitution rings all over Texas. Author Jesse Sublett presents a detailed account of these Austin miscreants, who rose to folk hero status despite their violent criminal acts.