Murder In Coweta County

Author : Margaret Barnes
Publisher : Pelican Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9781455609086
Total Pages : 312 pages
Book Rating : 4.80/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Murder in Coweta County written by Margaret Barnes and published by Pelican Publishing. This book was released on 1983-03-02 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This is a great book about a great American hero. It was my privilege to portray Sheriff Lamar Potts in the movie Murder in Coweta County." -Johnny Cash "A thrilling experience for me." -Andy Griffith "One of the best crime trial recreations ever written." -Chicago Sun-Times Murder in Coweta County received the coveted Edgar Allan Poe Special Award as an outstanding fact-crime study by the Mystery Writers of America and has been used in sociology and criminal law courses at schools and universities throughout the United States. Filmed as a CBS television movie starring Johnny Cash and Andy Griffith in 1983, the story gained even more acclaim and is still available on video and DVD. This book is a detailed and chillingly realistic reconstruction of the brutal murder of tenant farmer Wilson Turner that took place in rural Georgia in 1948 and the brilliant investigation that eventually brought the murderer-a powerful county "lord"-to justice with a conviction that set legal precedents. When that county "lord," John Wallace, crushed Turner's skull with a sawed-off shotgun, he did not even give a passing thought to being prosecuted by the police in his "feudal kingdom" of Meriwether County. However, Wallace had unknowingly crossed the county line into Coweta County, which was under the jurisdiction of the tenacious Sheriff Lamar Potts. Sheriff Potts emerges from the incident as a classic American lawman, honest and unintimidated, a man of action and integrity determined to see justice done.

Author : Margaret Barnes
Publisher : Pelican Publishing Company
ISBN 13 : 9781455624911
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.18/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Murder in Coweta County written by Margaret Barnes and published by Pelican Publishing Company. This book was released on 2019-06 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work is a detailed and chillingly realistic reconstruction of the brutal murder of tenant farmer Wilson Turner, which took place in rural Georgia in 1948, and the brilliant investigation that eventually brought the murderer--a powerful county "lord"--to justice with a conviction that set legal precedents. When that county "lord," John Wallace, crushed Turner's skull with a sawed-off shotgun, he did not even give a passing thought to being prosecuted by the police in his "feudal kingdom" of Meriwether County. However, Wallace had unknowingly crossed into Coweta County, which was under the jurisdiction of the tenacious Sheriff Lamar Potts. Sheriff Potts emerges from the incident as a classic American lawman, honest and unintimidated, a man of action and integrity determined to see justice done.

Author : Barnes, Margaret Anne
Publisher : New York : Pocket Books ; Markham, Ont. : Distributed in Canada by PaperJacks
ISBN 13 : 9780671810955
Total Pages : 310 pages
Book Rating : 4.52/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Murder in Coweta County written by Barnes, Margaret Anne and published by New York : Pocket Books ; Markham, Ont. : Distributed in Canada by PaperJacks. This book was released on 1977 with total page 310 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Murder in Coweta County received the coveted Edgar Allan Poe Special Award as an outstanding fact-crime study by the Mystery Writers of America and has been used in sociology and criminal law courses at schools and universities throughout the United States. Filmed as a CBS television movie starring Johnny Cash and Andy Griffith in 1983, the story gained even more acclaim and is still available on video and DVD.

Author : W. Jeff Bishop
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1439659486
Total Pages : 160 pages
Book Rating : 4.89/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Coweta County written by W. Jeff Bishop and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2017-02-06 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Over two centuries, Coweta County has been home to diverse residents who mastered the art of reinventing the county. Initially home to Creek-Muscogee Native Americans, subsequent settlers ushered in an era of plantations, slavery and textile manufacturing. By 1851, the new Atlanta and LaGrange Railroad increased traffic locally. The new railroad contributed to Newnan becoming a major healthcare hub during the Civil War, home to seven hospitals. Coweta County maintains its status as a major healthcare destination today, with the establishment of Cancer Treatment Centers of America's southeast regional hospital in Newnan. The county is now also known worldwide as the backdrop for major television productions like The Walking Dead and films like The Hunger Games: Mockingjay. Author and historian W. Jeff Bishop details Coweta County's history of transformation.

Author : Dot Moore
Publisher : NewSouth Books
ISBN 13 : 1603060081
Total Pages : 166 pages
Book Rating : 4.80/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Oracle of the Ages written by Dot Moore and published by NewSouth Books. This book was released on 2007-02-28 with total page 166 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Annotation. The life of a famous Georgia fortuneteller and eccentric, told in a chorus of oral history interviews by people who knew her. Author Dot Moore worked on this book for more than twenty years, spurred on by her own memories and encounters with the late Mayhayley Lancaster while she was growing up in Heard County, Georgia. Moore is a retired educator and Democratic Party activist, and lives in Montgomery. This is her first book.

Author : Dot Moore
Publisher : NewSouth Books
ISBN 13 : 1588382648
Total Pages : 154 pages
Book Rating : 4.41/5 ( download)

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Download or read book No Remorse written by Dot Moore and published by NewSouth Books. This book was released on 2011-01-01 with total page 154 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A 1948 murder committed in Georgias Coweta County was controversial not only for its middle-of-the-night mystery, but also for the role played by prominent businessman John Wallace. In No Remorse, bestselling nonfiction author Dot Moore explores that fateful night as well as the events that brought John Wallace to the point of murderthe death of his father when Wallace was only 11 years old and his early exposure to the making and selling of moonshine whiskey. Moonshine would later play a part in the murder for which Georgia sent Wallace to the electric chair.

Author : Margaret Anne Barnes
Publisher : Pelican Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9780882894195
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.96/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Murder in Coweta County written by Margaret Anne Barnes and published by Pelican Publishing. This book was released on 1983 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The true story of a brutal murder that took place in rural Georgia in 1948. Sheriff Lamar Potts emerges as a man of action and integrity, determined to see justice done.

Author : Helen J. Knowles-Gardner
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 1498579671
Total Pages : 197 pages
Book Rating : 4.74/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Lights, Camera, Execution! written by Helen J. Knowles-Gardner and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2019-10-16 with total page 197 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Lights, Camera, Execution!: Cinematic Portrayals of Capital Punishment fills a prominent void in the existing film studies and death penalty literature. Each chapter focuses on a particular cinematic portrayal of the death penalty in the United States. Some of the analyzed films are well-known Hollywood blockbusters, such as Dead Man Walking (1995); others are more obscure, such as the made-for-television movie Murder in Coweta County (1983). By contrasting different portrayals where appropriate and identifying themes common to many of the studied films – such as the concept of dignity and the role of race (and racial discrimination) – the volume strengthens the reader’s ability to engage in comparative analysis of topics, stories, and cinematic techniques.Written by three professors with extensive experience teaching, and writing about the death penalty, film studies, and criminal justice, Lights, Camera, Execution! is deliberately designed for both classroom use and general readership.

Author : Margaret Anne Barnes
Publisher : Mercer University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780865546134
Total Pages : 396 pages
Book Rating : 4.34/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Tragedy and the Triumph of Phenix City, Alabama written by Margaret Anne Barnes and published by Mercer University Press. This book was released on 1998 with total page 396 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Writer Barnes tells the story of a corrupt, crime-ridden city, examining events that unfolded during 1916-1955. Phenix City had been a 19th-century refuge from law enforcement for 120 years until three men in succession challenged the status quo. To reconstruct the story the author draws on notes and private papers of the principals and investigators; depositions, trial transcripts, and court records; daily newspaper coverage; and transcripts of wire-tapped recordings of the city's gamblers and politicians. No index or bibliography. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

Author : Philip Dray
Publisher : Modern Library
ISBN 13 : 0307430669
Total Pages : 554 pages
Book Rating : 4.63/5 ( download)

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Download or read book At the Hands of Persons Unknown written by Philip Dray and published by Modern Library. This book was released on 2007-12-18 with total page 554 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: WINNER OF THE SOUTHERN BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD FOR NONFICTION • “A landmark work of unflinching scholarship.”—The New York Times This extraordinary account of lynching in America, by acclaimed civil rights historian Philip Dray, shines a clear, bright light on American history’s darkest stain—illuminating its causes, perpetrators, apologists, and victims. Philip Dray also tells the story of the men and women who led the long and difficult fight to expose and eradicate lynching, including Ida B. Wells, James Weldon Johnson, Walter White, and W.E.B. Du Bois. If lynching is emblematic of what is worst about America, their fight may stand for what is best: the commitment to justice and fairness and the conviction that one individual’s sense of right can suffice to defy the gravest of wrongs. This landmark book follows the trajectory of both forces over American history—and makes lynching’s legacy belong to us all. Praise for At the Hands of Persons Unknown “In this history of lynching in the post-Reconstruction South—the most comprehensive of its kind—the author has written what amounts to a Black Book of American race relations.”—The New Yorker “A powerfully written, admirably perceptive synthesis of the vast literature on lynching. It is the most comprehensive social history of this shameful subject in almost seventy years and should be recognized as a major addition to the bibliography of American race relations.”—David Levering Lewis “An important and courageous book, well written, meticulously researched, and carefully argued.”—The Boston Globe “You don’t really know what lynching was until you read Dray’s ghastly accounts of public butchery and official complicity.”—Time