Orlando Sentinel Conversations

Author Gilbert King discusses the Groveland Four pardon (Ep.71)


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Florida’s Clemency Board granted pardons to the men known as the Groveland Four — Samuel Shepherd, Walter Irvin, Charles Greenlee and Ernest Thomas — on January 11, nearly 70 years after a young white housewife accused them of kidnapping and raping her. Reporter Hal Boedeker sat down with author Gilbert King whose Pulitzer Prize-winning book “Devil in the Grove” documented the injustices in the case.
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