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...athletic field Monday morning. At least 150 black men and women had assembled by the time Colonel McKean arrived with two carloads of brass, as requested by the blacks. It was a doomed colloquy. A white race-relations officer and a black major were both shouted down. When Beverly Bradford, a white reporter for the Anniston Star, was discovered in the midst of the WACs, she was subjected to some unladylike pummeling. "It was wild," says Colonel Richard Hines, the deputy post commander. "It would have taken 50 MPs to stop those women...
Unlike most juvenile offenders--even lifers--Bradford was not sent to the state's Young Men's Reformatory. His partner in the robbery was, but Bradford went to the penitentiary. However, he did not go into the joint totally alone: "I went into prison with an intense hate for white people because it was a white judge, a white lawyer, and a white prosecutor, and it was white police--you know, everyone who put me in prison was white...
...Albert Bradford did not come out of the joint alive. He died in there sometime during the first five years that his body was being held in Jeff City. He died when his hate died...
Hakim, as he has in all legal transactions since his arrival here, used his Christian name, Albert Bradford, on the passport application. It was costly resurection of that dead identity...
There has been much speculation about why the Governor signed the papers. His offical answer, given at an airport press conference after he had been besieged by a large group of Hakim's supporters, was that the severity of the charges against Albert Bradford--rape is a capital crime in Missouri--dictated that he allow the matter to be settled in court. However, other factors may well have played a part in the decision. The Governor seems to be assuming that Hakim can get a fairer trial in Missouri on a capital offense than Willie Ford could have received...