The Glory Days of Reprisal Killing & When Dad Wants You Dead

It's only fitting that on April Fools' Day and in the midst of a COVID-19 shutdown we go BIG with a deep dive on reprisal killings (pictured), getting your ass kicked in Lagos, sans any kind of reprisal at all, and much more. Like what? Like what life is like when your dad wants you dead. www.ozy.com From the editor | April 01 It's only fitting that on April Fools' Day and in the midst of a COVID-19 shutdown we go BIG with a deep dive on reprisal killings (pictured), getting your ass kicked in Lagos, sans any kind of reprisal at all, and much more. Like what? Like what life is like when your dad wants you dead. Eugene S. Robinson, Editor-at-Large [True Stories]( [The Glory Days of the Reprisal Killing]( This Old West legend got his start avenging his father’s murder. In 1868, six former Confederate soldiers who hadn’t gotten the Civil War out of their system joined a vigilante group and became so-called Regulators. They called themselves the Ferber-Campsey gang and only God knows what they were regulating as they cut a bloody swath through the postwar Western landscape. Young Frank Eaton’s father had moved his family from Connecticut to Kansas, which is where the Ferber-Campsey Gang shot Frank’s father to death in front of the 8-year-old Frank and his mother. No reason was ever given as to why Eaton’s father was murdered, though the fact that he had been a Union soldier may have been enough for the killers. A friend of Eaton’s father purportedly told Frank, “May an old man’s curse rest upon you if you do not try to avenge your father.” [READ NOW]( [True Stories]( [Getting Your Ass Kicked in Lagos]( In Lagos, while trying to get a Ph.D. from Yale, a student learns a valuable lesson about police politics: Avoid it. It was not a good time to have an accident. I was in Lagos, and I needed to be in Ibadan before nightfall, when armed robbers inevitably took over the roads. I was on one of the most dangerous highways in one of the most dangerous countries in the world. My car had been hit by two men who then began arguing with my driver about how much they should pay for the damages. Being notoriously bad-tempered, I decided to stay out of it. After an hour of argument, though, I decided maybe my tendencies were what was required. [READ NOW]( [Sponsored by: MIT]( [Harness the Power of A.I. to Transform Your Business With MIT Faculty]( Artificial intelligence in the workplace isn’t about robots stealing jobs — a common misperception — it’s about leveraging existing and emerging technologies, from machine learning to natural language processing and robotics, to support business needs and enhance outcomes. How can your company take optimal advantage of AI? With [Artificial Intelligence: Implications for Business Strategy](, a six-week course taught by MIT faculty from the Sloan School of Management and the Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Lab. Their expertise across business, computer science and artificial intelligence will give you a practical grounding in AI and its business applications, as well as the knowledge for how to boost performance through increased connectivity with machines. Are you ready to integrate AI into your organization? Find out more about the online program [here.]( [True Stories]( [Surviving a Conference Call Sex Mishap]( OZY’s Eugene S. Robinson addresses queries from the love-weary in “Sex With Eugene.” [True Stories]( [When Dad Wants You Dead]( Retired Army Lt. Col. James J. Scott's father had a plan, and it was a simple one: kill his entire family. [True Stories]( [The Twisty History of the Tom Collins]( The real punchline is that there is no original. [True Stories]( [The Tragedy That Killed a Stanley Cup]( In 1919, the Spanish Flu threw the Stanley Cup into a tailspin. But could Joe Hall have been saved? [True Stories]( [How to Handle High Seas Terror]( A brief boat trip leads to ocean terror most extreme as a family finds out what the graveyard of the Atlantic means. [True Stories]( [To Die in Portland]( In early January, I was in Portland to film a music video. While I was there? A man died. One More Thing [Coronavirus Pushes Biggest Migration in the Americas Underground]( [READ NOW]( OZY Media Mountain View, California 94040 This email was sent to {EMAIL} [Manage Subscriptions]( | [Privacy Policy]( | [Read Online](