These additional comments, questions, facts and photos are not part of my novel but I post them here in defense of some assumptions I made in the first edition of The Bosses Club, published in 2011. “A conspiracy of silence” The subtitle I used for the first edition of The Bosses Club, “The Conspiracy that caused The Johnstown Flood…”, has been cited as the reason some outlets refused to carry my book and I must agree there is no proof of a conspiracy that caused the flood. H