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Showing posts with label USF. Show all posts
Showing posts with label USF. Show all posts
Friday, January 31, 2014
Video Report: White House Boys update, Erin Kimmerle talks exhumations at Dozier School for Boys, Boot Hill
The following video report is from January 28, 2014, and contains the latest information regarding USF's exhumation at the now defunct Arthur G. Dozier School for Boys located in Marianna, Florida. Researchers
have uncovered 55 children's bodies (some were found in places such as under trees and roads and not in the "cemetery" located at Boot Hill) 24 more than the State of Florida previously accounted for.
Thursday, September 5, 2013
Video: Possible second cemetery located at Dozier
I'm not clear why civil rights activists aren't over the Dozier School for Boys abuse case like white on rice. Seriously, the practice of segregation permeated much of the school's history due to Jim Crow and it wasn't until late 60s, possibly 70s that the school became integrated.
There were separate buildings, facilities, even the "White House" where children
were beaten and tortured was segregated. So, it seems only logical that children who had every function in their life segregated were also buried in separate locations.
Researchers from the University of South Florida are currently exhuming bodies from the "Boot Hill Cemetery" but this was widely known as the "colored" cemetery for the school's history.
So, where are the white boys buried?
It is absolutely illogical to assume that only black boys died and were buried at the school; the scanty records the school has shows that multiple white students died. Will there be white bodies in Boot Hill? Most likely, but those may be the remains of those who died after the school integrated.
There is no doubt in my mind that there are bodies buried in another location (if not haphazardly buried throughout the property).
USF addressed the possibility of a second cemetery in this news report below.
There were separate buildings, facilities, even the "White House" where children
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| Click to magnify: USF suspects second cemetery |
Researchers from the University of South Florida are currently exhuming bodies from the "Boot Hill Cemetery" but this was widely known as the "colored" cemetery for the school's history.
So, where are the white boys buried?
It is absolutely illogical to assume that only black boys died and were buried at the school; the scanty records the school has shows that multiple white students died. Will there be white bodies in Boot Hill? Most likely, but those may be the remains of those who died after the school integrated.
There is no doubt in my mind that there are bodies buried in another location (if not haphazardly buried throughout the property).
USF addressed the possibility of a second cemetery in this news report below.
Dozier victims' family members submit DNA (Videos)
This video is from June 2013, before excavation at the Dozier School for Boys in Marianna, Florida began at the end of August. The video shows family members who have lost loved ones once they were committed to the Dozier School for Boys (Florida School for Boys) submitting DNA in hopes of identifying remains.
USF located an additional 50 graves at the Dozier's Boot Hill Cemetery. Records
from the school are incomplete and it is impossible to determine exactly how many students passed through the school in its 111 years of operation. It is also impossible to know exactly how many children died while in the state-run reform school.
USF has one year to locate, exhume and perform forensic autopsies on the remains in hopes of reconnecting loved ones to victims and providing scientific evidence to substantiate victim's allegations of abuse, torture and murder while at the school.
USF located an additional 50 graves at the Dozier's Boot Hill Cemetery. Records
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| Death certificate lists "crushed skull" as cause |
USF has one year to locate, exhume and perform forensic autopsies on the remains in hopes of reconnecting loved ones to victims and providing scientific evidence to substantiate victim's allegations of abuse, torture and murder while at the school.
Sunday, September 1, 2013
White House Boys: Videos
Florida is finally on the path to seeking justice for the boys who died at the Florida reform school later renamed "Arthur G. Dozier School for Boys." The school
operated from January 1, 1900 to June 30, 2011, and has been the subject of civil rights violations in its 111 year history.
Survivors and first-hand witness accounts of abuse that took place in a concrete building dubbed "The White House," reveal that they believe many more children suffered and died than the 31 graves marked in Boot Hill cemetery.
USF is overseeing the exhumation of bodies, and survivors have indicated the fear the number of bodies discovered will be close to one hundred. The amount of children abused at the Dozier School for Boys is believed to be in the thousands.
Here are videos from several "White House Boys" including Robert Straley and Roger Kiser.
White House Boys who have spoken publicly about the abuse they endured include the following:
Troy Tidwell was one of the staff who abused many students. He has one arm and must have been an incredibly terrifying figure while torturing young children. Here is part 1 of his testimony from 2009.
Survivors and first-hand witness accounts of abuse that took place in a concrete building dubbed "The White House," reveal that they believe many more children suffered and died than the 31 graves marked in Boot Hill cemetery.
USF is overseeing the exhumation of bodies, and survivors have indicated the fear the number of bodies discovered will be close to one hundred. The amount of children abused at the Dozier School for Boys is believed to be in the thousands.
Here are videos from several "White House Boys" including Robert Straley and Roger Kiser.
White House Boys who have spoken publicly about the abuse they endured include the following:
- Roger Kiser
- Robert Straley
- John Broadnax
- Paul Carrin
- George Coewey
- Bill Haynes
- Jerry Cooper
- Michael Greenway
- Robert Lundy
- Henry Williams
- Bryant Middleton
- Roy Conerly
- John Marx
- Eddie Horne
- Willie Roberts
- Dick Colon
- James Griffin
- Michael O'McCarthy
- Stu Kruger
- Frank Marx
- Marshall Drawdy
- Don Stratton
- Jim DeNyke
- Bob Baxter
- Larry Houston
- Freddy Surber
- John Bonner
- Jim Turner
- Norman Payne
- Buddy Suggs
- Robert Jordan
- Rick Tabb
- Steve Coker
- Richard Lewis
- Charles Fudge
- Randall Steed
- Donald Griggs
- Glenn Maynor
- George Fudge
- Samuel Weese
- Manuel Giddens
Troy Tidwell was one of the staff who abused many students. He has one arm and must have been an incredibly terrifying figure while torturing young children. Here is part 1 of his testimony from 2009.
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