Thomas & Thomas RIIIIP (Part 3): SHAME Comes in Three

Continuing from my previous post.

Okay so it was a bit of a cliff hanger.  The third Thomas is... :

Gordon Thomas (author) (born 1933) is an investigative journalist and author, notably on topics of secret intelligence.^[1][2] 

On reading portions of his wiki page I came across two pertinent pieces of evidence:

• Edgar Allan Poe Award for Shipwreck

And under the section, Film Adaptations:

• Voyage of the Damned won five Academy Award nominations

All you have to do is read my posts over the last few days to see that these are two more additions to the "Ships/Ship Wrecks" pattern-cluster.

Note from the wiki page of the film, Voyage of the Damned:

Voyage of the Damned is a 1976 drama film, which was based on a 1974 book written by Gordon Thomas and Max Morgan-Witts with the same title.^[1]

The story was inspired by true events concerning the fate of the MS St. Louis ocean liner carrying Jewish refugees from Germany to Cuba in 1939.

So He co wrote the book.  Note from the wiki page of the other author: 

Max Morgan-Witts (born 27 September 1931)

As to the second portion of the excerpt, note the following from the MS St. Louis wiki page:

The MS St. Louis was a German ocean liner most notable for a single voyage in 1939, in which its captain, Gustav Schröder, tried to find homes for 908 Jewish refugees from Germany. 

Now note from the captain's wiki page:

Gustav Schröder ( September 27, 1885 – Hamburg, January 10, 1959) 

 So Author Max Morgan-Witts was born on Schroder's birthday, hence generating a "September 27 (x2)" pattern-cluster.   I strategically left his place of death in the above given that it's an addition to the "Ham/Names/words containing Ham" pattern-cluster.

Note this next excerpt from the Ships wiki page:

After they were denied entry to Cuba, Canada, and the United States, the refugees were finally accepted in various European countries, and historians have estimated that approximately a quarter of them died in death camps during World War II. The event was the subject of a 1974 book, Voyage of the Damned, by Gordon Thomas and Max Morgan-Witts. It was adapted for a 1976 US film of the same title and a 1994 opera titled "St. Louis Blues" by Chiel Meijering.

A moment of Shame for Cuba, Canada, and the United States!!