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| Miami News cartoon by Don Wright. June 21, 1970. (Click image to enlarge) |
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| Miami News, April 27, 1985. (Click image to enlarge) |
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| Miami News cartoon by Don Wright. March 13, 1985. (Click to enlarge) |
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| Miami News, March 9, 1985. |
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| Miami News, May 4, 1976. (Click to enlarge) |
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| Miami News cartoon by Don Wright, Nov. 15, 1984. (Click image to enlarge.) |
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| Miami News, May 13, 1980. (Click to enlarge.) |
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| Miami News cartoon by Don Wright. |
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| Cartoon by Don Wright. from the Miami News, March 17, 1964. |
He'd have better fights, create greater spectacle, make more history, practice another religion, have another name, become a so-called traitor to his country, transform himself into its conscience and light an Olympic torch. So there was a lot more news in him man this. But in February 1964, when he was 22, Cassius Clay helped set the tone for a decade (at least) when he toppled Sonny Liston in one of sport's most important upsets.
Maybe the '60s would have been tumultuous without Clay's wild personality. Probably the times, they were a-changin' anyway. But give Clay—later Muhammad Ali, of course—credit for being a magical character who in the course of a spectacular boxing career somehow made us reconsider politics, war, race and religion. Poetry, too.
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| New heavyweight boxing champion Cassius Clay is hugged on the ring floor in Miami Beach by one of his handlers when Sonny Liston was unable the answer the bell for the seventh round of their title fight on Feb. 25, 1964. Clay was only 22 years old and was an 8-1 underdog in the fight against the reigning champion Liston. (AP Photo) (Click here to enlarge.) |
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| Cassius Clay, left, connects on a punch to the face of Sonny Liston in the third round before a TKO in the seventh round of their heavyweight championship fight in Miami Beach, Fla., on Feb. 25, 1964. (AP Photo) (Click image to enlarge.) |
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| Miami News, Feb. 26, 1964. |
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| Miami News cartoon by Don Wright. (Feb. 26, 1964) |
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| Dec. 31, 1988. |
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| Don Wright's final Miami News cartoon. (Click here to enlarge.) |
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| Cartoon by Don Wright. from the Miami News, Oct. 19, 1988. (Click to enlarge.) |
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| Actual caption from Michael Góngora's website: "Norman Braman enthusiastically endorsed Michael for Mayor because he believes in his vision for Miami Beach." |
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| Cartoon by Don Wright. Miami News, Nov. 11, 1983. (Click to enlarge.) |
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| Rafael Andrade, registered lobbyist for Tremont Towing and Beach Towing, with mayoral candidate Michael Góngora. |
Commissioners Deede Weithorn, Jorge Exposito, and Michael Góngora, who is now a candidate for mayor, voted with Wolfson to give the two [towing] companies their rate hike at the November 2012 meeting. "People are doing something bad," Góngora said. "This is essentially punishment for people parking in residential zones and parking where they shouldn't park." - Miami New Times, Aug. 8, 2013.
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| Cartoon by Don Wright. Miami News, Aug. 2, 1983. (Click to enlarge.) |
He also posted a link to a Reuters story headlined "Bones unearthed in search at former Florida reform school."[I'm] following a horrible history lesson being un-earthed in North Florida, a massive unmarked grave from a state run "Old South Reform School" that documents a horrible time in Florida History that can never be forgotten. Where's the National News Coverage and National Outrage?
Teams of searchers recovered human bones from the sands of Florida Panhandle woodlands on Saturday in a "boot hill" graveyard where juveniles who disappeared from a notorious Old South reform school more than a half-century ago are believed to have been secretly buried.As of 7pm Sunday evening the Reuters story had garnered more than 340 reader comments.
A painful reunion at school of horror
Sunday, October 19, 2008
BY CAROL MARBIN MILLER
cmarbin@MiamiHerald.comAnd, with a little research, the TV reporter - remember, he worked as a "journalist" for more than four decades in this town - would have learned that the St. Petersburg Times followed up on Marbin Miller's stories starting in 2009 with a comprehensive series of reports titled "For Their Own Good."
MARIANNA -- The Florida State Reform School -- more dungeon than deliverance for much of its 108-year history -- has kept chilling secrets hidden behind red-brick walls and a razor wire fence amid the gently rolling hills of rural North Florida.
Established by state lawmakers in 1897 as a high-minded experiment where "young offenders, separated from the vicious, may receive careful, physical, intellectual and moral training," the reformatory instead became a Dickensian nightmare.
Three years after the facility opened, kids were found chained in irons. A 1914 fire took six young lives while guards "were in town upon some pleasure bent," records say. And in the 1980s, advocates sued to stop the state from shackling and hogtying children there.
On Tuesday, about a half-dozen alumni will return to what is now called the Arthur G. Dozier School for Boys to confront the most painful chapter of their troubled lives.
The White House Boys, as a group of grown men now call themselves -- kept one of the institution's most shameful secrets for half a century: what was done to them inside a squat, dark, cinder-block building called The White House.
There, they say, guards beat them ferociously with a lash, some dozens of times. Some men say they also were sexually abused in a crawl space below the dining hall they call the "rape room."
State juvenile justice administrators, who have not denied the allegations, will dedicate a memorial to the suffering of The White House Boys -- who found one another through the Internet -- at a formal ceremony at the Marianna campus Tuesday.
They number in the hundreds, perhaps even thousands.
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| Cartoon by Don Wright. Miami News, July 26. 1973. |
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| Miami News, July 24, 1963. |
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| Miami News cartoon by Don Wright, June 15, 1982. |
