OLLI101569 - Friday Forum - Jack the Ripper (Virtual on zoom)

Course Description

Friday Virtual Lecture - Jack the Ripper

Friday April 5, 2024

Presented by: David Wesley Tonkin

11AM on zoom

"Few cases haunt the popular imagination like that of Jack the Ripper. For almost five years, the Ripper stalked the dark streets of one of London’s poorest neighborhoods leaving a trail of mutilated bodies in his wake. And in spite of an intense manhunt, the identity of the killer has never been discovered.
 

Queen Victoria’s grandson and heir to the British throne, the handsome Prince Albert Victor had an illustrious future ahead of him. Yet by the time of his premature death in 1892, he had embarrassed and massively disappointed his family and had been linked to various sexual scandals in fashionable London. 

Worse! It was even suspected that the prince was the notorious Whitechapel killer, Jack the Ripper and that he had fathered an illegitimate daughter.

This lecture critically examines the findings and evidence of Scotland Yard's case against Prince Albert Victor."

David Wesley Tonkin has traversed the globe many times and has appreciatively gathered a rich tapestry of remarkable and matchless life-lessons, vivid memories, experiences and opinions. He is a retired Airborne Cavalry Officer who saw service in the South African-Cuban-Angolan Wars and as a UN peacekeeper in five African countries in the 1970’s and 1980’s. He has held entrepreneurial COO level and thought leader and strategic positions at global business training enterprises. In 2008, David was honored with the “Excellence and Innovation in Corporate Learning” Award at the 9th Annual Corporate University Awards. This highly coveted and prestigious global award is co-sponsored by The Wharton School of Business and Training Magazine. David’s eclectic range of lectures all benefit from his many years of global travel and the embracing of a rich collective of experiences and research to fuel his wide range of topical coverage.

This is a repeat lecture on Jack the Ripper - if you came to the first - you are welcome to attend again!