The funeral service of an old friend, co-worker and college roommate is the back drop of a forty year mystery. Former Seaside Heights Lifeguard and Ocean County Prosecutors Office Investigator, Bobby Jamison passes away at his new home in southern Alabama, as he was approaching his mid-sixties. At the memorial service in Seaside Park, New Jersey, old colleagues gather to celebrate his life. The collages and arrays of photographs and memorabilia throughout the room draw those mourners back to the days many years earlier when one of their own died under suspicious circumstances involving Jamison's widow. Bobby's death and the celebration of his life by those mourners finally brings a belated close to the summer of 1968. This is a tragic love story spanning decades, when the lives of each of the old friends were greatly changed due to those few years in the mid to late 1960's. The war in Vietnam, the social unrest, the civil rights movement and the heartbreaking, world changing events of that time all play a role in the ultimate outcome of the lives of each of those lifeguards. THE DEATH of Lifeguards By Roger Kriney AuthorHouse Copyright © 2013 Roger Kriney All rights reserved. ISBN: 978-1-4817-7315-7 Contents Chapter 1 Seaside Park January 2011........................................1Chapter 2 Toms River December 2010.........................................8Chapter 3 Ocean Beach New Jersey October 1977..............................17Chapter 4 Seaside Park, NJ December 2010 Charleston, WVa October 1964......22Chapter 5 Charleston West Virginia April 1968..............................27Chapter 6 Charleston West Virginia May 1968................................38Chapter 7 Seaside Park December 2010.......................................47Chapter 8 South Hills, West Virginia February 1967.........................51Chapter 9 Seaside Park, New Jersey Late December 2010......................54Chapter 10 Seaside Heights, NJ May 29, 1968................................59Chapter 11 May 29, 1968 Seaside Heights....................................66Chapter 12 Seaside Park, December 2010.....................................73Chapter 13 Seaside Heights August 1966.....................................78Chapter 14 Diver's Buoy Evening, August 1966...............................87Chapter 15 Seaside Heights Late Night August 1966..........................89Chapter 16 Seaside Park, NJ December 2010..................................93Chapter 17 Neptune New Jersey October 1977.................................101Chapter 18 Seaside Heights, NJ June 5, 1968................................105Chapter 19 Seaside Heights, NJ Wednesday, July 3, 1968.....................124Chapter 20 Seaside Heights Wednesday Evening, July 3, 1968.................130Chapter 21 Seaside Park, NJ December 2010..................................134Chapter 22 Seaside Heights Thursday, July 4, 1968..........................136Chapter 23 Seaside Heights Friday, July 5, 1968............................144Chapter 24 Seaside Heights Saturday, July 6, 1968..........................151Chapter 25 South Seaside Park December 2010................................157Chapter 26 Squaw Valley California February 2007...........................162Chapter 27 Fort Polk, Louisiana October 1968...............................168Chapter 28 Newark, New Jersey May 1969.....................................173Chapter 29 Seaside Park May, 1969..........................................179Chapter 30 Toms River, New Jersey December 2010............................186Chapter 31 Seaside Heights Wednesday Night into Thursday, July 3 & 4, 1968.......................................................................191Chapter 32 Toms River, New Jersey December 2010............................204Chapter 33 Wayne, NJ December 2010.........................................208Chapter 34 Seaside Park, NJ January 2011...................................215 CHAPTER 1 Seaside Park January 2011 The cold air slapped him rudely in the face and the strongwind tried to pull the door of the pick-up truck away fromhis grip as he stepped out into the dark. Not the sand dunesacross the street or the wind humming through the utility linesoverhead could block the continual roar of the mid-January northAtlantic, surf. It was 4:45 in the morning in Seaside Park, NewJersey and although the cardboard coffee cup was warm as heheld it in his palm, the back of Will's hand stung from the cold.The slit opening of the plastic lid on the cup hummed and whistledas the biting breeze blew over it. He fumbled with the door lockremote. Setting the coffee cup down on the roadway againstthe tire, he stashed the keys in his pocket, pulled his gloves overhis cold hands and picked up the cup. He took a sip of the stillhot special blend coffee from the local all-night Wawa. The windwas gusting out of the northwest and the sand from the beachand the dunes was blowing toward the ocean, which meant thathe w