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From Midnight to Guntown

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by Hailman, John


  Palmer House Hotel, 344

  Panola County, 178, 179

  Papasan v. Allain, 173

  Parchman Farm. See Parchman Prison

  Parchman Penitentiary. See Parchman Prison

  Parchman Prison, 32, 33, 41, 42, 49, 50, 55, 62, 83, 96, 174, 181, 182, 201, 206–20, 239, 285, 288, 290, 305

  Parker, Wheeler, Jr., 232

  Parks, Rosa, 221

  Patterson, Pat, 57, 59

  Patterson, Steve, 161, 164–68, 170–71

  Payton, Larry, 4

  PBS News Hour, 356

  Peabody Hotel, 169

  Pentecost, 233

  Pepper, Allen, 219

  Percy, William Alexander, 9

  Perkins, Fay, 37

  Peters, Ed, 171, 222

  Phillips, George, 119, 121

  Pickett, John, 71

  Pittsburgh Steelers, 108

  Platinum Plus, 65

  Plato, 9

  Point Break, 43

  Pontotoc, 71, 272

  Pontotoc County, 125

  Poor People’s March, 102

  Porterfield, Dwayne, 40–42

  Powell, Kay, 34–37

  Powers, Charles “Mo,” 307

  Pravda, 167

  Prentiss County, 71

  Presley, Elvis, 80, 82, 170, 215, 296

  Presley, Harold Ray, 296–98

  Presley, Larry, 298

  Presley, Priscilla, 80

  Presley, Vernon, 206

  Proctor, John, 285

  Promises to Keep: On Life and Politics (Biden), 12

  Provious, Chris, 127

  Provious, Frankie, 127

  Prude, Ben, 272–73

  Prude, Todd, 272

  Pruett, Marion Albert “Mad Dog,” 239, 290–92, 354

  Psychedelic Haven, 245, 256

  Puckett, Steve, 214, 220

  Puerto Rico, 63

  Pump House, 83–84

  Puskus Lake, 238

  Pusser, Buford, 189

  Quantico, Virginia, 75, 191

  Quarles, Chester, 324

  Quitman County, 101, 177

  Quito, 233

  Rabat, Kingdom of Morocco, 321

  Rainbow Bar, 57

  Ramada Inn, 99

  Rambo, Eddie, 49

  Ramsey, Marshall, 154

  Rasberry, Rusty, 136

  Rashid, Mohammed, 354, 358–60

  Ray, H. M., 15–16, 88, 104–6, 112, 180, 262, 307, 320

  Reagan, Ronald, 245, 306

  Reconstruction, 122

  Red Banks, 72

  Red Hot Pot, 58

  Reed, James, 102, 104, 107

  Reed, Willie “Chicken,” 234

  Reid, Stephen, 43–45

  Reinhold, Kai, 62–63

  Rejebian, Michael, 121

  Renfro, Will, 108–14, 116

  Renasant Bank, 63–64

  Republican National Committee, 183

  Reynolds, Jim, 341

  Reynolds, Tommy, 150

  Rhodes, Richard, 237

  Rice, Jerry, 11

  Rice, Lent, 228

  Richard, Mark, 341

  RICO, 87–88, 90, 92, 100, 284, 337, 342, 344, 346

  Riley, James Earl, 114

  Ripley, 196

  Roberts, Paul, 294

  Roberts, Randy, 71

  Roberts, Richard “Ricky,” 226

  Rogers, Nancy, 338, 342, 345

  Rolling Fork, 183

  Rollins, Avery, 340, 341, 344

  Rose, Pete, 88

  Royals, Tom, 145

  Rubin, Alvin, 317

  Ruby, Jack, 237

  Ruleville, 33

  Rural Legal Services, 8, 11, 123, 173, 207

  Rushdie, Salman, 342

  Russell, Frank, 131–32

  Russell, Marty, 4, 364

  Russian National Prosecutors Conference, 320–21

  Rust, Kevin, 195–98, 200

  Sally Jessy Raphael Show, 239, 276

  Salter, Sid, 153

  San Diego, California, 45

  Sanders, Dave, 162

  Sardground, Mark, 14

  Sardis, 322

  Saulsberry, Helton, 96

  Saulsberry Hill, 96

  Schertz, Danny “Snakeman,” 56

  Schlater, 233

  Scruggs, Diane, 170

  Scruggs, Richard “Dickie,” 74, 142, 158–68, 170–72

  Scruggs, Zach, 160, 171, 298

  Sealed Plaintiffs v. Sealed Defendants, 321, 353–70

  Seattle, Washington, 46

  Secret Service School, 259

  Secure Compartmentalized Intelligence Facility (SCIF), 341

  Sedona, Arizona, 45

  Selander, Richard, 117

  Selya, Bruce, 369

  Senate Armed Services Committee, 253

  Senatobia, 19

  Senter, L. T., 22, 145–46, 180, 218, 219, 282, 316

  Shakespeare, William, 169

  Sharp, Paige, 8

  Shaw, Harold, 240, 286–88

  Shaw, Ronald Glen, 305–18

  Shaw, William, 240, 285–88

  Shelaine Motel, 127

  Shin Bet, 337

  Shuffield, Steve, 71

  Shur, Gerald (Gerry), 90–91, 283, 289, 291–92, 354

  Shur, Joe, 355, 356, 366, 368

  Shurden Plantation, 230

  Sidon, 233

  Sidon, Lebanon, 232, 332

  Silbert, Earl “Earl the Pearl,” 246

  Silverwood, Jim, 216

  Sirica, John, 246

  Smith, Earl, 149–51, 153

  Smith, Eddie, Jr., 132

  Smith, George, 231, 233

  Smith, Orma “Hack,” 92–99, 100, 102–3, 107, 267, 270–71, 309, 311–13, 316

  Smithville, 63, 64

  Snyder, Duke, 258–59

  Southaven, 47, 108

  Southaven Police Department, 47–48

  Southern District of Mississippi, 219, 239, 290

  Southern District of New York, 337–38

  Soviet Union, 320

  Spillers, Charlie, 43, 51, 144, 279–82, 284, 298–99, 301–3

  Spradling, Don, 71, 130–31

  Springer, Jerry, 276

  Springfield Prison Hospital, 264

  Square, The (Oxford), 332

  Square Books, 224

  St. Eve, Amy, 345, 346

  Stacy, Don, 8

  Stanford Law Review, 369

  Starkville, 352

  Starkville Daily News, 271

  Starr, Kenneth, 173, 214

  State Sovereignty Commission, 228

  Staton, Carolyn Ellis, 363

  Stennis, Coy, 240, 253

  Stennis, John C., 12–13, 104–5, 167, 169, 239, 240–62

  Stennis Institute of Government, 13

  Stephens, Gene “Gino,” 81, 82

  Stevenson, Linda (aka Honey Bun Bandit), 65–67

  Stoneville, 31–32

  Stopwatch Gang, The, 43, 49

  Stuart, Harold, 285

  Sullivan, Warren “Tut,” 87

  Summerlin, Newson, 274

  Sumner, 292

  Sundlum, Bruce, 14

  Sunflower County, 106, 206, 224, 227

  Sunflower River, 211

  Sunnyside, 233

  Swan Lake, 230, 233

  Swango, Curtis, 228

  Swayze, Patrick, 43

  Sykes, Alvin, 222–23, 225–26

  Syria, 327

  Tallahatchie County, 19, 221, 227, 230, 234

  Tallahatchie River, 221, 230

  Tate, Bonnie, 56

  Tatum, Alan, 141

  Tatum, Buck, Jr., 40–43

  Taylor, Steve, 336–38, 340, 344

  Tbilisi, Republic of Georgia, 321

  Teed Off (Daly), 73

  Tennessee-Tombigbee Waterway, 63

  Terrorist: The Inside Story of the Highest Ranking Iraqi Terrorist Ever to Defect to the West (Emerson and Sesto), 321, 356

  Texas, 47, 221

  Time to Kill, A (Grisham), 114, 176

 
Thomas, Dave, 229

  Thomas, John, 244–45, 249–50, 256

  Thomas Jefferson on Wine (Hailman), 161

  Thornburgh, Richard, 320

  Thornton, Tommy, 258

  Tichenor, Wayne, 21, 33, 36, 75–80, 83–88, 90, 98, 104–14, 116–17, 178–80, 182, 184, 185, 238, 285

  Till, Emmett, 84, 177, 221–36

  Till, Louis “L.T.,” 235, 236

  Till-Mobley, Mamie, 225–26, 236

  Timothy, Henry, 280, 281

  Tippah County, 40, 41

  Tirana, Bardyl, 14

  Tishomingo County, 71

  Titus, Harold, 246

  Todd, Irby, 259

  Tohill, Freddie, 299–300

  Tohill, Jessie, Jr., 299–300

  Tohill, Jessie, Sr., 299–303

  Tohill, John Paul, 299–300

  Tohill Clan, 239, 299–303

  Tollison, Grady, 117–18, 131, 158, 299

  Tong, B. B., 91–92

  Tony’s Greek, 127

  Toobin, Jeffrey, 284

  Toole, Cornelius, 270

  Travis, Bill, 167

  Trinidad Valley, Philippines, 46

  Trustmark Bank, 47

  Tucker, James, 121, 152, 167

  Tucker Act, 369

  Tula, 187

  Tulane University, 7, 8

  Tunica, 37, 55, 65

  Tunica County, 71, 82, 146

  Tunisia, 156, 320, 321, 349

  Tupelo, 120, 143, 150, 279–80

  Tupelo Daily Journal (aka Northeast Mississippi Daily Journal), 4, 61, 64, 171, 353, 364

  Turkey, 328

  Tyson, Mike, 237

  Union County, 273

  United Arab Emirates, 322

  United Southern Bank, 36

  University of Mississippi. See Ole Miss

  University of Southern Mississippi, 120

  University of Virginia School of Law, 8, 242

  U.S. Army, 257

  U.S. Attorney General, 55

  U.S. Attorney’s Manual, 91, 125

  U.S. Attorney’s Office, 16, 65, 216

  U.S. Civil Defense Agency, 14

  U.S. Congress, 74, 277–78, 283, 326, 348

  U.S. Court of Federal Claims in Washington, D.C., 369

  U.S. Customs, 132, 156

  U.S. Department of Agriculture, 173, 229, 352

  U.S. Department of Defense, 148

  U.S. Legal Counsel, 65

  U.S. Marshal Service, 91, 111, 132, 152, 269, 270, 321, 353

  U.S. News & World Report, 276

  U.S. Postal Inspectors, 285

  U.S. Senate, 153, 169, 240, 244, 346

  U.S. State Department, 52, 324

  U.S. Supreme Court, 55, 130, 173, 201, 248–49, 250, 318

  USA Today, 232

  USAID, 334

  Vance, Bobby, 333

  Vegas Nights, 22

  Verona, 23

  Victoria, 28

  Vietnam War, 7, 75, 241, 257, 298, 335

  Visser, Michelle, 369

  Waddy, Joseph, 250–62

  Waide, Jim, 156

  Walker, Percy (aka Peacelover Shabazz), 24–29

  Walking Tall, 189

  Wall Doxey State Park, 133

  Wall Street Journal, 101, 107

  Wallace, Johnny, 114

  Wallace, Mike, 74

  Waller, Bill, Sr., 221

  Walls, 65, 87

  Walls, Johnnie, 123

  Wal-Mart, 38, 47, 59, 274, 328

  Walnut, 41, 196

  Walter Reed Hospital, 240, 243, 254, 257

  Walthall Hotel, 317

  Walton, Dale, 239, 262–67

  Walton, Elmer, 57, 58

  Walton, Harvey, 57, 58

  Walton, Judy, 57, 58

  War on Poverty, 277

  War Powers Act, 13

  Ward, Mildred, 240, 242

  Ward, Sela, 240

  Warren, Jimmy, 350

  Warren Commission, 258

  Washam, Johnny Paul, 28–31

  Washington, D.C., 10–13, 15, 55, 75, 82, 88, 102, 105, 164, 231, 277

  City Council, 113

  Colorado Building, 15

  D.C. Medical Examiner, 11

  George Washington Hospital, 254

  Georgetown (neighborhood), 10, 14

  Give a Damn Foundation, 13

  La Nicoise, 14

  Metropolitan Club, 13

  Old Ebbit Grill, 14

  Palm Steakhouse, 14

  St. Elizabeth’s Hospital, 11

  U.S. Capitol, 12, 247

  Wine & Cheese Shop, 10, 247

  Washington County, 224

  Washington Freedom Forum, 166, 230

  Washington Post, 10, 225, 230, 242, 246

  Washington Redskins, 108

  Water Valley, 71, 148

  Watergate, 82, 147

  Weiss, Baruch, 338

  Weld, William, 124

  West, Carl, 57

  West Bank, 333

  West Memphis, Arkansas, 85

  West Point, 57, 62, 352

  Weston, Greg, 49

  Whitaker, Hugh, 228

  White, Hugh, 233

  White, Mary Jo, 338

  White Citizens Council, 188–89, 228, 233, 234

  Whitehaven, Tennessee, 108

  Whitfield, 262–63, 325

  Whitwell, Bob, 96, 114, 115, 117–18, 120–21, 125, 294–95

  Why They Kill, 237

  Wicker, Roger, 118, 153, 299

  Wilbanks, Jerry, 274–75

  Wilbanks, Terry, 274

  Wilkie, Curtis, 168–69

  Wilkinson, Buddy, 31

  Williams, Dudley, 58

  Williams, Jerre, 317

  Williams, Murray, 93, 100

  Williams, Parham, 15, 16

  Williams, Pat, 115

  Wilson, Kevis “K-money,” 65–66

  Winston County, 123

  Winters, Terry Lynn, 212, 214, 219

  Without Villains There Would Be No Heroes, 171

  Witness Protection Program, 90–91, 280–81, 283, 288–92, 321, 354, 360, 361–62, 367

  Wood, Donald, 268, 269

  Woodrow Wilson Fellowship, 7, 8

  Woodson, Stanley, 132, 140

  World War II, 230, 235, 236

  Wounded Knee, South Dakota, 56

  Wren, Ello, 26

  Wright, J. Skelly, 250

  Wright, Lionel, 43–45

  Wright, Moses, 229, 231, 235

  Wright, Simon, 223, 226, 231, 232, 236

  Wyatt, Carrol Lee, 28–29

  Wynter, Dana, 322

  Yalobusha County, 148

  Yasser Arafat, 320, 345

  Yemen, 321, 353

  Young, John, 131, 297

  Young, Lula, 293–95

  Young and the Restless, The, 58

  About the Author

  John Hailman attended both the Sorbonne in Paris (two years) and the Universite Laval in Quebec, Canada. Then he received his B.A. from Millsaps College in Jackson, Mississippi, his M.A. from Tulane University in New Orleans, Louisiana, and his J.D. from the University of Mississippi in Oxford, Mississippi. He was a Prettyman Fellow in Trial Practice at Georgetown and received the International Law Certificate from the National School for Magistrates in Paris, France. He is one of the rare prosecutors elected to the exclusive American Board of Trial Advocates and was a Founding Bencher of American Inn of Court III.

  Hailman has received numerous commendations from a series of FBI directors and from attorneys general from Griffin Bell and Janet Reno to Edwin Meese and Alberto Gonzalez, including the Justice Department’s highest honor, the Attorney General’s Distinguished Service Award. He was the only Justice Department employee to receive, for his tenure as the nation’s longest-serving U.S. attorney criminal chief, the Senior Executive Service Leadership Award.

  Hailman taught for many years at the FBI Academy and the Justice Department Advocacy Institute in Washington, D.C., and Columbia, South Carolina. He has been an adjunct professor of law at the University of
Mississippi for over twenty-five years and still teaches trial advocacy and law and literature there.

  Hailman and his wife Regan have two children, Dr. Allison Hailman Doyle of Meridian, Mississippi, and Lydia Hailman King of Baltimore, Maryland, and one granddaughter, Abbey McGrew Doyle, age two. The Hailmans divide their retirement time between homes in Oxford, Mississippi, and a village in the Charente region of southwest France near Bordeaux.

  THE FEDS: aka “Mississippi’s Untouchables” during the FBI’s Operation Pretense—a statewide undercover investigation into corruption by county supervisors. Clockwise from upper left: Bob Whitwell, U.S. attorney for the Northern District; James Tucker, criminal chief, Southern District; the author, criminal Chief for the Northern District; George Phillips, U.S. attorney for the Southern District. (Courtesy of The Clarion-Ledger, J. D. Schwalm, photographer)

  Reunion of former law clerks of Chief Judge William C. Keady. Front row from left: Martin Kilpatrick, Frances Griffin, the judge’s loyal secretary, and Judge Keady. Back row from left: Dan Webb, Jerry Read, the author, Will Ford, Wayne Drinkwater, and Charles M. Powers.

  Life-size official portrait of brilliant U.S. District Judge Neal Biggers, which hangs on the wall of his courtroom in Oxford. Counsel for the Scruggs defendants referred to him, unfairly, as “Maximum Neal.”

  Beloved U.S. Senator John C. Stennis, center, flanked by the author, the Senator’s legal counsel and speechwriter during Watergate, and the brother of Stanley Kimmitt, Secretary of the Senate, during a visit to Montana in September 1972.

  Statue of William “Cousin Will” Faulkner on his bench in front of the old Oxford Federal Courthouse, now City Hall, where the author tried some of his first cases.

  A statue honoring James Meredith, the first black student at Ole Miss, which now stands in a special plaza between the Lyceum and the Library. As Chancellor Robert Khayat stated in dedicating it: “We are committed to respect the dignity of every person, and this monument stands as tangible evidence of that commitment.” (Photo by Nathan Latil, University of Mississippi photographer)

  National Advocacy Center of the U.S. Justice Department at the University of South Carolina Law School where the author taught for many years.

  The faculty of the Justice Department’s Advocacy Institute or “school for prosecutors” in Washington before it moved to its current quarters in South Carolina. The author is on the left front beside current U.S. District Judge Ginny Grenade of Mobile and in front of U.S. Magistrate Richard Dean of Atlanta.

  The author as a student at the Sorbonne in Paris where he spent two years constantly watching trials as a “courtroom rat” at the Palais de Justice in Paris and the Old Bailey in London.

  Regan, the author’s wife, at the Barnes and Noble homestore in New York where the author’s book Thomas Jefferson on Wine was a “staff selection.”

 

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