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First there was much pushing, shouting and loud argument. Then a fight broke out, lasting approximately 30 seconds. When it was over, six white airmen were hospitalized with head wounds. None of the injuries seemed serious, but at dawn Airman First Class Robert Padgett, 23, of Woodlawn, Va., died of a brain hemorrhage...
...Ernest L. DeVore of Monongahela, Pa., William E. England of Atlanta, Ga., James M. Flynn of Toledo, O., William A. Kittel of Woronoco, Carl W. Lindner of Silver Spring, Md., Roger J. Maher of Pittsburgh, Nathan Norman of Allston, Joseph P. O'Donnell of Somerville, and Gordon A. Padgett of Savannab...
...story spread across sleepy Lake County like fire in a stand of slash pine. By nightfall all the county knew that Willie Padgett's 17-year-old wife had been raped by four Negroes; two of the suspects were already locked up in the county jail at Tavares...
Grumbling, the mob rode off, and almost broke up. Just for the hell of it, though, in the little fanning town of Groveland, 65 miles from Tampa and not far from Willie and Norma Padgett's house, the men with shotguns pumped 15 loads of buckshot into a Negro-owned juke joint. Then they looked around for more Negroes-but the 400 residents of Groveland's Negro district had been carted to safety by white citizens who feared what was coming...
...PADGETT...