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Christy O'Connor Jr.

Those We Lost

By Irish America Staff
February / March 2016

February 11, 2016 by 1 Comment

Rick Cluchey 1933 – 2015 On February 2, 1955, the man who would become one of Samuel Beckett’s greatest protegés, got into a car in Los Angeles with a loaded gun. Rick Cluchey robbed and accidentally shot the driver, was caught, and subsequently sentenced to life in San Quentin Prison without the possibility of parole. It was through this violent episode that he was to find his … [Read more...] about Those We Lost

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