Word: florida
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Heads hung in belated remorse, four young Florida white men stood in a Tallahassee courtroom last week to be sentenced for raping a 19-year-old Negro coed seven times at point of knife and shotgun. On the bench sat Circuit Judge W. (for William) May Walker, 54, a snow-haired tree of a man (6 ft. 2 in., 220 lbs.) and a lifelong Floridian, whose love for the South is exceeded only by his dedication to equal justice under the law. "Yours was a horrible and deplorable crime, committed under horrible circumstances," said the judge. And then he handed...
...white man has ever been executed in Florida for raping a Negro woman. But since 1925, Florida has executed 37 Negroes found guilty of raping white women; four others now sit in the death house, awaiting the electric chair...
...fighting, called up reserves, sent his "AntiCommunist Foreign Legion'' of retired army men to guard the Haitian border, mobilized the "Horsemen of the East"-a private army led by Cattleman (and former consul in New York) Felix Bernardino. At sea, suspicious Dominican gunboats stopped the U.S. freighter Florida State three times on one of its regular cement-carrying round trips between Puerto Rico and Florida. In the air, a Dominican PSI fired a burst of machine-gun fire and lowered its wheels to force a U.S. Air Force C-47 to land at Ciudad Trujillo for identification...
...legal sense, it was four young, white Florida Tobacco Readers who were on trial last week in a sweltering Tallahassee courtroom. They were charged with abducting a 19-year-old coed at Florida A. & M. University (for Negroes), forcing her at shotgun and knifepoint into a lonely stand of pines and blackjack oaks and between them, raping her seven times. But in a broader and more important sense, the Southern, segregated State of Florida was being tested in its ability to render equal justice under the law. Florida passed the test with dignity and a fine regard...
...this changed the A.M.A.'s public posture, it did not change the minds of some A.M.A. bigwigs. Los Angeles' Dr. E. Vincent Askey, newly chosen presidentelect (to take office in 1960, succeeding Florida's Dr. Louis M. Orr), insisted after the vote that just as inviolable as the patient's right to choose his physician is his right to reject one. To Dr. Askey, the freedom to choose a closed panel is no freedom...