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Speaking at the Gutman Center, Butterfield told the story of Willie Bosket, the murderer who allegedly committed 2,000 crimes as a youth and is now in prison for life...
...Butterfield linked Bosket's behavior to the fact that Bosket's father was himself convicted for murder and was sent to the same reform school as Willie at the same...
...Butterfield said that Bosket wanted to be like his father, as a youth telling social workers and teachers that he would be a murderer like his father when he grew...
...wrote to his father, 'I am devoted to the revolutionary struggle,'" Butterfield said. "And his father wrote back, 'That's a bit too much excitement for me.' Willie was disappointed...
...Butterfield said much of the American tradition of violence comes from the Southern concept of pride and honor...