Lecture: Who Shafted Les Darcy - Completed
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What made Australian boxing legend Les Darcy stow away to America two days before the 1916 Conscription plebiscite? What crime led Australian and American newspapers to vilify him mercilessly? Why did three American state governors ban him from boxing? Roger Ley revisits this century old cold case.
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Early in his career, Roger Ley produced training videos and films, but appointment as Educational Media and Teaching Methodology adviser on an aid project in Indonesia in 1980 led him to spend most of his career in management of development assistance projects. In 2011, as retirement loomed, his family enrolled him in an intensive screenwriting course, encouraging him to write a screenplay as a retirement project. He was looking for a suitable subject when his wife’s book group chose a “man book” (a biography of Les Darcy), and invited their husbands to attend. Six years later, his draft screenplay still needs more work, but intensive research involving books, newspapers and original archives in Canberra, Sydney and the United States has enabled him to answer some century old questions about an Australian legend. He will leave it to his audience to judge the accuracy of his conclusions. Mr. Ley has an Economics Degree, Dip. Ed. and Graduate Diploma in Applied Film and Television.
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