The Grimes Sisters, Barbara and Patricia (15 and 13 respectively) left home for the cinema on Friday 28th December 1956, to see a showing of Love Me Tender. Both were big Elvis Presley fans and this was their fifteenth time seeing the film. They were spotted cheerfully buying popcorn at the cinema by a friend. …
Month: Aug 2020
The Wrongful Conviction of James Joseph Richardson
In 1967, an African American man named James Joseph Richardson lived with his wife Annie Mae in Florida with their seven children – six girls and one boy between the ages of 2 and 11. They were not a wealthy family and both parents worked at an orange grove picking fruit whilst the children were …
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