Word: jessee
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Jesse was five years younger than Brother Wriston (now 64 and a retired Woolworth store manager) and eight years older than Sister Mary Elizabeth (now 52 and a Monroe housewife). The family led a cozy, righteous life that makes sampler platitudes seem profound. The father, remembers a friend, "was courteous...
When not at home or church or school (where the children, all of them white, prayed daily), Helms seems to have lived one gamboling, summery pastorale. Along with Wriston, Gilmer, Bill Hinson and sometimes a black child or two, Jesse would trek down to Richardson Creek to whoop and splash...
"Segregation was a way of life," says Ray House, now 76, Helms' high school principal. House adds: "Everybody played together?Jesse played with black kids too." (Helms said, a few years ago, that segregation was "not wrong for its time.") He was a gangling teen-ager whose schoolwork was only...
Jesse usually begged off when sides were chosen for a sand-lot ball game, and he had no girlfriend. But he played the violin and he excelled at the tuba. He practiced with the Monroe High School
(5 of 10) U.S. Senate primary campaign against Frank Graham, a widely admired former University of North Carolina president. The slimy tactics, agrees Helms' friend Judge James ("Pou") Bailey, "got clean out of hand." The election is still a sour blotch for North Carolinians; white supremacy had not been an...