The Whitehurst Case, 50 Years Later

When I was writing Closed Ranks, I used to think about this day as a marker. December 2, 2025 would be the 50th anniversary of the killing of Bernard Whitehurst, Jr.— an unhappy anniversary, certainly not something to celebrate, but a day to mark when the time came. I learned about this story and began researching it in the fall of 2013, when his death was thirty-eight years in the past. It was an informal goal of mine to have the story recognized and acknowledged by the 50th anniversary, which… Read more The Whitehurst Case, 50 Years Later →