Verdict stuns 'close and great' friend Nov 22, 2008
New York photographer Basquali, a long-time friend of Gordon Wood, thought the consensus was his friend would be cleared because of doubt and conflicting reports ... Video:Gordon Wood discussing the Caroline Byrne case on the Channel 7 program 'Witness' in 1998 ... Video: Gordon Wood has been found guilty of the murder of Caroline Byrne. (Sydney Morning Herald -- Australia)
I'd like a beer now, says her dad Nov 22, 2008
Police thought Caroline Byrne had killed herself, but Mr Byrne refused to believe it; he was convinced she had died at the hand of her partner, Gordon Wood ... "Yesterday Mr Byrne said he would finally be able to repay a small measure of his debt to police and prosecutors: shouting them a schooner of beer, he handed one to Detective Inspector Paul Jacob and spoke into his ear too softly for the assembled television cameras to hear. It was a rare private moment at the end of a very public period... (Sydney Morning Herald -- Australia)
Prep: Coaches approaching 500 game mark Nov 21, 2008
Major milestone is on the horizon for two local coaches 112108 - The Augusta Chronicle. They're separated by 25 miles of rural Georgia highways and 16 years, but Lincoln County's Larry Campbell and Thomson's Luther Welsh are linked by a common calling that has made them the most prolific head coaches in Georgia football history. (The Augusta Chronicle)
Sweet justice at the Judgment Bar Nov 21, 2008
Just hours after Gordon Wood was convicted of murdering Byrne, her father, Tony, picked at fish and chips while his three surviving children, a granddaughter and his late daughter's boss, June Dally-Watkins, drank to Ms Byrne's memory, their health and the health of the people who had won the verdict ... "I selected two trials that I considered defendants were trying to get away with murder. Well, I watched Bruce Burrell get his just deserts, and now I've seen Gordon Wood.". (Sydney Morning Herald -- Australia)
'No, are you serious?' Wood's friend reels at news of verdict Nov 21, 2008
THE New York photographer Basquali, the friend of Gordon Wood who said he was lunching with him at the time other witnesses placed him at The Gap with Caroline Byrne, appeared devastated by yesterday's verdict ... He initially declined an interview, but when he finally agreed, he was wearing a new white T-shirt that proclaimed: "Gordon Wood is innocent.". (Sydney Morning Herald -- Australia)
Trauma of a mother facing ruin for her son Nov 21, 2008
IN THE moments after Gordon Wood was declared guilty of murdering Caroline Byrne, the late model's father, Tony, dabbed tears of relief from his face with a handkerchief ... After the verdict, Gordon Wood was taken to Parklea Correctional Centre. (Sydney Morning Herald -- Australia)
How we helped to crack the case Nov 21, 2008
Robert Wainwright reveals the Herald's role in bringing Gordon Wood to justice. GORDON WOOD'S conviction for the murder of Caroline Byrne has taken 13 years, a coronial inquiry, three troubled police investigations and a manhunt throughout Europe - and The Sydney Morning Herald has been at the forefront throughout it all. (Sydney Morning Herald -- Australia)
He kept the faith: the cop they call the Professor Nov 21, 2008
Video:Gordon Wood discussing the Caroline Byrne case on the Channel 7 program 'Witness' in 1998. Video: Gordon Wood has been found guilty of the murder of Caroline Byrne ... Video Gordon Wood heads into court, moments before a guilty verdict is handed down over the death of his girlfriend Caroline Byrne. (Sydney Morning Herald -- Australia)
'Do you think I did it?' The $20,000 question the jury never heard Nov 21, 2008
The Rivkin coterie Gordon Wood, second from left, disgraced stockbroker Rene Rivkin, in purple T-shirt, convicted drug dealer, Simon Main, second from right and Gary Redding, third from right ... Video:Gordon Wood discussing the Caroline Byrne case on the Channel 7 program 'Witness' in 1998 ... Video: Gordon Wood has been found guilty of the murder of Caroline Byrne. (Sydney Morning Herald -- Australia)
She knew too much Nov 21, 2008
Gordon Wood arrives at the Supreme Court in Darlinghurst yesterday at 9am ... Video:Gordon Wood discussing the Caroline Byrne case on the Channel 7 program 'Witness' in 1998 ... Video: Gordon Wood has been found guilty of the murder of Caroline Byrne. (Sydney Morning Herald -- Australia)
Jury told death site wrongly identified Oct 22, 2008
Rodney Cross, of the University of Sydney, gave evidence yesterday at the trial of Gordon Wood, who has pleaded not guilty to throwing his 24-year-old girlfriend to her death at The Gap in June 1995. Professor Cross said that when he provided his first report to police in 2003, he had based his calculations on a rock police had identified to him as the place Ms Byrne's body had been found. (Sydney Morning Herald -- Australia)
Allies, enemies Oct 19, 2008
On every page their sentences appear, either anonymously quoted or introduced by name, as in: "As Kenneth R. Andrews has described," "As one historian has described him," "As Edmund S. Morgan has described it," "As Robert Bliss has pointed out," or "As Gordon Wood has pointed out . . . ." It is as if a young professor, before a faculty panel, has felt obliged to quote every historian present in order to get tenure. Not only does the narrative become tediously second-hand, but the quotations... (Boston Globe)
Wood book pointed finger at old flame Oct 17, 2008
POLICE recently became aware that Gordon Wood planned to suggest an earlier boyfriend might have been responsible for Caroline's Byrne's death after reading a draft of his autobiography, The Gap Between Fact And Fiction, a jury has heard. Wood, 45, has pleaded not guilty to the murder of Ms Byrne, who fell to her death at The Gap at Watsons Bay on June 7, 1995. (Sydney Morning Herald -- Australia)
Wood 'wrote book' about model's death Oct 16, 2008
As NSW police prepared to lay murder charges against Gordon Wood, the former chauffeur to Rene Rivkin was penning a tell-all account of his own. Police told Wood's murder trial on Thursday that the autobiography - titled The Gap Between Fact and Fiction - alerted them to his plan to implicate a former policeman in the death of his model girlfriend Caroline Byrne. (The Age)
Come clean on rescue plan - Bishop Oct 16, 2008
October 16, 2008 12:52am AEDT. THE federal opposition maintains the government should come clean on the reasons behind the introduction of its $10. (The Australian)
Thorpe moves to scuttle doping claims Oct 16, 2008
October 01, 2008 04:23pm AEST. IAN Thorpe has provided the country's drug testing agency with medical evidence in an attempt to clear his name of doping. (Yahoo News -- Swimming)
9/11 rebuild goes on, despite grisly finds Oct 16, 2008
Lauren Wilson GORDON Wood was writing a book about the death of his girlfriend Caroline Byrne before his arrest, a court has been told today. Marcia Langton LET communities choose whether they want practical assistance. (Yahoo News -- World Trade Center)
White wine also given a heart tick Oct 16, 2008
October 14, 2008 12:07pm AEDT. THE health benefits of a glass of red wine are well known, but new research has found a tipple of white could also protect the heart. (The Australian)
Graham Richardson fronts Wood trial Sep 25, 2008
Former Labor senator Graham Richardson has told a Sydney court he may have urged Gordon Wood to leave Australia after the death of his girlfriend Caroline Byrne. The jury in Wood's murder trial has also heard that Wood felt deserted by his boss Rene Rivkin after Ms Byrne's death, writing in a letter to a friend that after doing Mr Rivkin's "dirty work" for so long, his employer was now "scared" to be associated with him. (Sydney Morning Herald -- Australia)
McCain pledges to renew Australian alliance Sep 23, 2008
September 23, 2008 12:23pm AEST. AUSTRALIA has looked to the US for leadership on global climate change and it is "time for us to answer that call", John McCain says. (The Australian)
Vaile lands seat on Virgin Blue board Sep 23, 2008
September 23, 2008 01:03am AEST. FORMER transport and deputy prime minister Mark Vaile has landed a job on the board of Virgin Blue. (The Australian)
'Suicide has never crossed my mind' Sep 19, 2008
Narelle Cook, one of Ms Byrne's oldest friends, also gave evidence today at the trial of Ms Byrne's boyfriend, Gordon Wood. The 45-year-old former fitness instructor and chauffeur to Rene Rivkin has pleaded not guilty to throwing Ms Byrne to her death at The Gap on June 7, 1995. (Sydney Morning Herald)
Singleton in witness box at Wood trial Sep 19, 2008
KNOCKABOUT advertising mogul John Singleton made a cameo appearance at Gordon Wood's murder trial yesterday ... Dr Pan's patient Caroline Byrne was allegedly thrown to her death by her boyfriend, Gordon Wood, at The Gap in June 1995. (Sydney Morning Herald -- Australia)
'Coroners, police got it wrong' Sep 13, 2008
Mrs Cecil has enlisted the help of University of Sydney physicist Rod Cross, a fall specialist currently testifying in the trial of Gordon Wood for the murder of model Caroline Byrne. She has also engaged a forensic engineer to conduct a feasibility study proving it was impossible for her son to have been on the roof. (Sydney Morning Herald -- Australia)
La Vega levels Lions Sep 11, 2008
" chabob wrote on Sep 7, 2008 10:14 AM:" I am not a coach and never have claimed to be one. I sat with amazement and watched the La Vega Pirates run the same play for 205 plus times ove the center of the Brownwood Lion center and never once did I observe a Brownwood Coach sit on the sideline and coach the Brownwood Defensive linemen as they were off the field on how to stop the slaughter. (Brownwood Bulletin, TX)
Rivkin was Wood's gay lover, The Gap death trial told Aug 29, 2008
CAROLINE BYRNE'S father has told a Sydney court her boyfriend Gordon Wood was rumoured to be having a homosexual affair with his stockbroker boss Rene Rivkin. Wood, 45, is standing trial for the murder of Ms Byrne, who was allegedly thrown from a cliff at The Gap in Sydney in June 1995. (Sydney Morning Herald -- Australia)
I knew Caroline was dead, jury told Aug 28, 2008
30am by a call from his daughter's boyfriend, Gordon Wood, saying she had vanished and that he had found her car at The Gap at Watsons Bay. Wood has pleaded not guilty to murdering the 24-year-old model, who was allegedly thrown from The Gap on June 7, 1995. (Sydney Morning Herald -- Australia)
Going for catwalk gold Aug 17, 2008
He shouldn't be so hard on himself, as he was only minutes behind someone who looked suspiciously like the Eastern Suburbs identity, Gordon Wood, who's due in court later this month on another matter. The video shows the man in a white singlet crossing after 19,198 others, and taking 92 minutes and 43 seconds to do so. (Sydney Morning Herald -- Entertainment)
Stars illuminate Celtics' Garden party Apr 22, 2008
Without mentioning Menino by name, the Harvard professor and minister warned that the BPL was in danger of becoming "a minor bureaucratic sinkhole.") The eight "Lights" celebrated at the swanky gala were authors Geraldine Brooks, Stephen Carter, Frances FitzGerald, Richard Ford, Tony Horwitz, P.J. O'Rourke, Gordon Wood, and the late David Halberstam. Others attending included novelist Tom Perrotta and New York Times columnist Anthony Lewis, both presenters, Lewis's wife, Supreme Judicial Court... (Boston Globe)
Lack of funding threatens Gap trial Apr 18, 2008
THE impending murder trial of Gordon Wood is in disarray due to the lack of funding for his legal team. Wood's barrister, Winston Terracini, SC, is understood to be considering withdrawing from the matter after yesterday's decision by the Legal Aid Commission to offer Wood funding of only $50,000 for his estimated three- to four-month trial. (Sydney Morning Herald -- Australia)
Television's The History Channel drops 'the' and 'channel' from its name, keeps History Mar 21, 2008
Gordon Wood, a Pulitzer Prize-winning historian at Brown University, doesn't watch the network much. "I must confess, I'm still back in the reading-of-books stage," he said. (International Herald Tribune -- Arts)
more » Jan 6, 2008
The Parcells story had to do with Parcells book released in the late 1990s in which he credited Coach Gordon Wood of Brownwood who was named in 1999 as Texas Coach of the Century. Parcells says the old coach made a real impression on him when he was coaching at Texas Tech in Lubbock 20 years ago. (Searcy Daily Citizen, AR)
Book review: American Creation Nov 28, 2007
Gordon Wood has pointed out that the founders belonged to a post-aristocratic, predemocratic age that nurtured the emergence of a self-conscious and unembarrassed political elite. And Bernard Bailyn has argued that America's early leaders, far removed from the suffocating influence of Europe, were freer to question conventional wisdom and invent truths of their own. (International Herald Tribune -- Arts)
Football: Texas Stadium still favorite locale for 5A playoffs Nov 13, 2007
7:30 p.m. Friday at Brownwood's Gordon Wood Stadium. Windthorst (4-6), bye. (McKinney Courier-Gazette, TX)
Wood: Past presidents idealized in present day Oct 22, 2007
America's idealization of its founding fathers can be seen in everything from their portraits on U.S. currency to the abundance of scholarship on figures like John Adams and Benjamin Franklin, Pulitzer Prizewinning historian Gordon Wood told an overflowing crowd in Dodds Auditorium on Saturday afternoon. This reverence is a tribute, he said, to the egalitarian values and high moral principles people like Adams and Franklin advocated and upon which the United States was founded. (The Daily Princetonian, NJ)
Plymouth, Puritans, Penn, Quakers, Aug 1, 2007
Gordon Wood, The Radicalism of the American Revolution. Wikipedia. (Suite101.com)
First-time author hits the jackpot Aug 1, 2007
She lives with her architect husband, Gordon Wood, on a 48-foot sailboat moored in Oahu. She had written three earlier novels and has "a stack of rejection letters" to show for them. (USA Today)
Hedley Thomas on Haneef Jul 16, 2007
Have any of you guys jumped to defend, say Gordon Wood, or the eight men of interest in the Brimble case. No you say, ouch. (The Australian)
Wood smitten with untalented Byrne - mother Jun 30, 2007
GORDON WOOD is a misunderstood, loving man, his mother says. Brenda Wood insists the outwardly aloof and seemingly cold former gym instructor and chauffeur is a shy, affectionate person who was smitten with Caroline Byrne, the woman he is accused of hurling from The Gap in 1995 because she stood in the way of financial gain. (Sydney Morning Herald -- Australia)
Byrne case error found by luck Jun 22, 2007
Gordon Wood, a former employee of the late Sydney stockbroker Rene Rivkin and Ms Byrne's boyfriend, has been charged with her murder. Prosecutors claim he threw her over The Gap, although Wood denies being in the area on the day she died on June 7, 1995. (Sydney Morning Herald)
Wood took gym credits, court told Jun 22, 2007
A FEW hours after his girlfriend's funeral, Gordon Wood walked into the gymnasium where they both trained and asked staff to transfer her remaining membership to him, a court has heard. Christine McVeigh, a manager at City Gym, in East Sydney, told Burwood Local Court yesterday she was sorry for Wood because she had been told the funeral for Caroline Byrne had been held that day, but was surprised at his request. (Sydney Morning Herald -- Australia)
Byrne 'a good sort', court hears Jun 21, 2007
A gym owner's wife says she witnessed a violent argument between Gordon Wood and Caroline Byrne about three days before Ms Byrne was found dead at the base of The Gap on June 1995. Wood is facing committal proceedings in Burwood Local Court, accused of throwing Ms Byrne off Sydney's notorious suicide spot. (Sydney Morning Herald -- Australia)
Rich list aired at Wood hearing Jun 21, 2007
In other evidence yesterday, a former Watsons Bay restaurateur, Lance Melbourne, said he saw Gordon Wood with Caroline Byrne and another man at Watsons Bay in the early afternoon of the day of her death. Wood has denied being there at all. (Sydney Morning Herald -- Australia)
Packer link in Wood case Jun 20, 2007
The Burwood Local Court today heard that Gordon Wood had made allegations linking him to a 1993 fire that burned down a Sydney firm, Alpine Printing, netting a big insurance payout for its owner, the late stockbroker Rene Rivkin. Wood, Rivkin's former driver, is facing committal proceedings on murder charges. (Sydney Morning Herald)
ISU professor featured in program on Alexander Hamilton May 14, 2007
Biographer Ron Chernow and historians Carol Berkin, Joanne Freeman, Karl Walling and Gordon Wood join Payne. In the role of Hamilton is Tony Award-winning actor Brian F. OByrne. (The Pantagraph newspaper)
Wood magistrate disqualified Feb 9, 2007
THE MAGISTRATE who was to hear the high-profile murder case against former chauffeur Gordon Wood has been forced to disqualify herself as her parents used to employ the victim, model Caroline Byrne. Wood is accused of throwing his then-girlfriend off the Gap in Sydney's east in June 1995. (Daily Telegraph)
EA SPORTS Football All-Americans 2006 Feb 6, 2007
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