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Henry M. Holden is the author of numerous adult and children books
as well as more than 600 magazine articles on Aviation History. In 1994, he rece3ived the New Jersey Institute
of Technology’s Author’s Award. Henry Holden was a deputy sheriff for the Orange County Sheriff’s
Department (Florida) from 1979 to 1981. He is the author of: To Be a U.S. Air Force Pilot;
FBI 100 Years: An Unofficial History; Rescue Helicopters and Aircraft; Hovering: The History of the Whirly-Girls: International
Women Helicopter Pilots; To Be a Crime Scene Investigator; American Women of Flight: Pilots and Pioneers; Crime-Fighting Aircraft;
Black Hawk Helicopter; Air Force Aircraft; Fire-Fighting Aircraft and Smoke Jumpers; Her Mentor Was an Albatross: The Autobiography
of Pioneer Pilot Harriet Quimby; Ladybirds: The Untold Story of Women Pilots in America; Navy Combat Aircraft and Pilots;
The Fabulous Ford Tri-Motors; The Tragedy of the Space Shuttle Challenger; Woodrow Wilson; Wisconsin; The Persian Gulf War;
Living and Working Aboard the International Space Station; The Boeing 247: The First Modern Commercial Airplane; The American
Alligator; Coast Guard Rescue and Patrol Aircraft; New Jersey; Ladybirds II The Continuing Story of American Women in Aviation;
Aerial drug wars: The Story of U.S. Customs Aviation; The Legacy of the DC-3; Trailblazing Astronaut John Glenn; Triumph over
Disaster Aboard Apollo 13 Pioneering Astronaut Sally Ride; To Be a U.S. Secret Service Agent; To Be an FBI Special Agent; and, The
Supersonic X-15 and High-Tech NASA Aircraft.
According to the book description of FBI
100 Years: An Unofficial History, “On the eve of the FBI's centenary, this book offers the first comprehensive
illustrated account of the Bureaus 100-year history. Granted unprecedented access to the FBI headquarters in Washington, D.C.,
and academy at Quantico, Virginia, author Henry M. Holden presents a rare inside view of the agency’s workings, as well
as a compelling, closely observed picture of its ever-changing role, powers, notable cases, and controversies through the
years. FBI 100 Years chronicles the Bureaus successes and failures from its early days as Teddy Roosevelt’s trust-busting
detective force to the increased emphasis on counterterrorism the post 9/11 world. Along the way, Holden revisits the gangster
era and the days of McCarthyism, the unmaking of the Mob, and the disastrous standoffs at Ruby Ridge and Waco. The famous
and the infamous make their appearances in the story, colorful characters such as John Dillinger and "Machine Gun"
Kelly, J. Edgar Hoover and turncoat spy Robert Hansen. With added features including an exploration of the 200 categories
of federal crimes that fall within the Bureaus purview, all the FBI Ten Most Wanted Fugitives lists since the first in 1949,
and an entertaining look at the FBI in popular culture, this is the most thorough and authoritative book ever written about
the principal law enforcement arm of the United States Department of Justice. It is truly the first book to do justice to
the worlds most famous, but actually little-known law enforcement agencies in the world.”
About the Orange County
Sheriff's Department
According to the Orange County Sheriff’s Department (Florida), “The
first sheriff of Orange County dates from the earliest days of Florida's statehood in 1845. On January 31, 1845, the area
was known as Mosquito County in Territorial Florida was renamed Orange County, a name reflective of the spreading blanket
of orange groves throughout the region. Less than six weeks later, on March 3, 1845, Florida's status as a territory was
changed to that of statehood. The first statewide election was conducted on May 26, 1845. William Henry Williams was elected
to serve as Orange County's first sheriff.” Today, the Orange County Sheriff’s Department is a full service law enforcement agency which employees over
2,400 employees with a budget of over 140 million dollars. The Orange County Sheriff’s Department
is organized into three divisions: Uniformed Patrol, Investigative Divisions and Administrative Divisions. In
addition to being one of the largest law enforcement agencies in the Southeast United States, the Orange County Sheriff’s
Department is unique in that unlike most sheriff agencies it does not manage the county jails. Management
of the Orange County inmate population is accomplished the Orange County Corrections Department, a separate entity. Source: osco.com
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