Beneath a Ruthless Sun

by Gilbert King

  Reese, Mabel Norris, 14–17, 41–57, 60–66, 68, 120, 202, 220, 239–40, 265–72, 306–9, 323, 332–33, 355–61, 374–75

  Big Scrub cabin case and, 90, 318

  bombings of house of, 62–63

  cross-burning and, 44–46, 224

  and Jesse Daniels’s arrest and imprisonment, 97–98, 162, 182, 302

  Jesse Daniels’s confession and, 107, 124

  Jesse Daniels’s hospital commitment and, 124–25, 155, 161–62, 165, 171, 194, 242, 269–71, 293–94, 296, 301, 355, 359, 366

  Jesse Daniels’s freedom and, 307, 355

  Jesse Daniels’s grand jury hearing and, 105–6

  Jesse Daniels’s legislative hearings and, 307–9, 314, 317

  Jesse Daniels’s relief claim and, 307, 366

  Jesse Daniels’s sanity hearing and, 272, 283–84, 291, 294

  Jesse Daniels’s timeline and, 163–65

  Pearl Daniels’s death and, 360

  Pearl Daniels’s relationship with, 120–21, 154, 262–63, 265–66, 356

  East Town incident and, 222

  Florida’s agriculture and, 15–16

  and freeing of Jesse Daniels, 299–302

  Fruitland Park rape case and, 244, 251, 318, 333

  Groveland Boys case and, 42–44, 60–61, 91, 113–14, 167, 183, 318, 375

  and Melvin Hawkins Jr.’s arrest and imprisonment, 80–81, 83, 96

  Knowles rape case and, 41, 80–81, 83, 91, 96–98, 103–8, 112–14, 120–21, 123–25, 154–55, 162–68, 171–72, 174, 178–80, 182, 194–98, 200, 204, 206, 208, 213, 215–16, 243, 251, 260, 266–68, 291–92, 309, 331, 344, 350, 353–55, 357, 375

  letter to Futch, 113–14

  McCall murder trial and, 324–25

  McCall’s Coronet magazine interview and, 173

  Odom case and, 167–71, 180, 184, 194–96

  Odom’s death sentence and, 353

  Platt family case and, 48–57, 61, 66, 113–14, 183, 318, 375

  routines of, 14–16, 41–42

  St. Augustine protests and, 253–54, 256–62, 375

  and treatment of juveniles in detention, 99–101

  Vickers case and, 311

  Reese, Patricia, 14–15, 41–42, 44–45, 50–51, 62–63, 220, 240, 262, 301, 356, 360

  Reese, Paul, 14–15, 44–46, 48, 62, 66, 239–40

  Roberts, B. K., 251–52, 268

  Robinson, W. F. “Red,” 19–22, 37, 41, 94, 123–24, 154, 168, 336, 339

  Rodriguez, Francisco, 214–15, 238, 244, 248, 252

  Rogers, W. D., 227

  Rony, Vera, 165

  Roseborough, D. D., 48–49

  Rutherford, Amelia, 157–58, 160, 166, 207, 350

  St. Augustine, Fla., 331, 357

  civil rights protests in, 246, 253–62, 375

  St. Petersburg Times, 54, 115, 296, 302, 307

  Saunders, Robert, 81–83, 115–16, 180, 198, 244, 248

  Scofield, George, 102–3, 106, 116

  Scott, Charles R., 322–23, 333, 346–47

  Sewell, Doug, 13, 85, 87–88, 154, 171, 247

  Shelley, David, 87–88

  Shepherd, Samuel, 42–43, 50, 162

  Shuler, Robert, 233–39, 243–44, 248, 250–52, 322–23, 333, 367–68

  Simon, Tobias, 259–60, 323

  Simpson, Bryan, 259–62

  Sinclair, DeWitt, 197, 209, 215–16

  Smith, D. R., 238–39

  Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC), 186, 255–56, 259–60

  Southern Manifesto (“Declaration of Constitutional Principles”; Thurmond), 58, 77

  Soviet Union, 7, 9, 252

  Spears, Bryant “Hamp,” 198

  Stephenson, Clarence, 202–5, 207–15

  Stevenson, Adlai, 64

  Stoiber, Carlton, 345

  Stoner, J. B., 258–59

  Stoutamire, Ollie, 187–88

  Summers, Levi, 233–38

  Supreme Court, Florida, 60, 324, 370

  Jesse Daniels’s hospital commitment and, 268–69

  Jesse Daniels’s sanity hearing and, 276

  Fruitland Park rape case and, 252

  McCollum case and, 142

  Motley and, 76–77

  Odom case and, 184, 194

  and University of Florida College of Law case, 76–77, 79, 251–52, 268

  Supreme Court, U.S., 269

  Brown decision, 44, 47, 57–58, 76, 288

  Jesse Daniels’s hospital commitment and, 267, 270, 292–94, 371

  Donaldson decision, 367

  Fruitland Park rape case and, 368

  Groveland Boys case and, 42–43, 371

  Miranda decision, 297, 305

  and University of Florida College of Law case, 76–79, 371

  Sweatt, Heman Marion, 76

  Taylor, Marlene, 84–90

  Thompson, Lester W., 352

  Thurmond, Strom, 58, 77

  Till, Emmett, 115, 186

  Troxler, David, 372

  Tucker, Ted, 180–83

  Tyler, W. E., 10

  University of Florida College of Law case, 75–79, 81–82, 251–52, 268, 293, 369–71

  Vickers, Tommy J., 310–11, 318

  beating death of, 322–25, 327, 330–33

  McCall murder trial and, 324, 329–31

  Ward, Susanna, 31–32

  Warner, Carl, 306

  Warren, Dan, 253, 255, 260–62

  Warren, Fuller, 78

  Washington, J. C., 204, 210, 212–14

  Wass, Charlotte, 233–37, 249, 252, 368

  Wass, Sally, 252

  Watts, James W., 137–38

  Weatherly, Carole, 37–38

  White, W. Wilson, 175, 179–80, 183

  Wilkins, Roy, 186

  Wilkinson, Elmer and Delmer, 225–26

  Woods, Jesse, 115–16

  Woods, Thomas F.

  Jesse Daniels’s legislative hearings and, 307–12, 314–17, 332, 346–49, 353–54

  Jesse Daniels’s relief claim and, 307, 311, 332, 346–47, 354, 358, 364–66

  Woodward, C. Vann, 58

  World War II, 27–32, 60, 138, 150, 153–54, 168, 294, 352, 355

  Yates, James L., 90, 156, 223, 369

  and break-ins in Leesburg and Okahumpka, 158–60, 166

  and Jesse Daniels’s arrest and imprisonment, 95, 97, 301, 361

  Jesse Daniels’s confession and, 126, 128, 162, 313, 315, 317, 349

  Jesse Daniels’s legislative hearings and, 308, 313, 315, 349

  Fruitland Park rape case and, 234, 236, 238–39, 247, 249–51, 317, 368

  Groveland Boys case and, 43, 71, 249, 316–17

  Knowles rape case and, 17, 19–20, 69–71, 80, 93–95, 97, 106, 112, 126, 128, 151, 153, 158, 160–61, 181, 196, 201–10, 213–16, 239, 298, 308, 315–17, 334–35, 339, 344, 346–47, 349–53

  Blanche Knowles’s testimony and, 151, 153

  Odom case and, 170, 196, 198–99, 205, 207

  Odom’s execution and, 217, 351–52

  Young, Durham, 20–21, 106, 290

  PHOTO CREDITS

  FRONTISPIECE: State Archives of Florida

  CHAPTER ONE: Courtesy Daytona Beach News-Journal

  CHAPTER TWO: Leesburg Heritage Society

  CHAPTER THREE: Ebony magazine

  CHAPTER FOUR: Robert W. Kelley, The LIFE Picture Collection

  CHAPTER FIVE: St. Petersburg Times/Zuma Press

  CHAPTER SIX: Wallace Kirkland, The LIFE Picture Collection

  CHAPTER SEVEN: State Archives of Florida

  CHAPTER EIGHT: Wallace Kirkland, The LIFE Picture Collection

  CHAPTER NINE: Florida Department of C
orrections

  CHAPTER TEN: Leesburg Heritage Society (photographer unknown)

  CHAPTER ELEVEN: Courtesy Cindy Chesley

  CHAPTER TWELVE: Bettmann

  CHAPTER THIRTEEN: Red Morgan

  CHAPTER FOURTEEN: J. C. Clancy Photography

  CHAPTER FIFTEEN: Red Morgan

  CHAPTER SIXTEEN: Florida Department of Law Enforcement

  CHAPTER SEVENTEEN: Used with permission from the Orlando Sentinel

  EPILOGUE: Courtesy Evvie Griffin

  HERE: Red Morgan

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