Dr. Robert V. V. Hurst
Her new freedoms and impetuous personality empower her to challenge social constraints for a unique life experiencing in 25 years what most do not in a lifetime.
Using her sensuality and intelligence, her life in America played out against a backdrop of the roaring 20s, bootleg liquor, ragtime music and speakeasies. Nettie became in her mind, and in reality, a true American blazing an unchartered path that few women in 1900 would ever attempt.
February 14, 1923, Valentine’s Day.
Riding in the back seat of a 1923 Hudson, Nettie is shot three times. She dies at 12:30 pm the next day.
Who Killed Nettie Sachs and Why? The True Story of My Grandmother