Something Went Wrong Somewhere

True Crime Historian

Richard O Jones

True Crime, Documentary, Arts, Society & Culture, Performing Arts

4.4 • 729 Ratings

🗓️ 26 November 2023

⏱️ 64 minutes

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Summary

The Rosewood Massacr

Episode 284 is dedicated to True Crime Historian patron Mary Virginia Avery who lives near what used to be Rosewood, Florida, where the probably unfounded accusation of a black man for assaulting a white woman led to the destruction of the town and the banishment from Levy County of all of its citizens. Because incidents like this were numerous and under-reported, I’ve included accounts of some of the racial unrest in that area that researchers believe contributed to the rage that was exhibited that night, and also some passages from a report produced in 1993 based on interviews with survivors. Although I’ve edited the news reports to lighten the obvious racial bias, there are times when I felt it important to read them as written, so be aware that the language may be strong at times. History is not always pretty, and I don’t think it endorses the racism of the day to bring it into light. I believe that all of my stories are cautionary tales, and it’s too easy to see echoes of these events in modern America.

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0:00.0	The trouble
0:02.0	The trouble originated this afternoon when it is said a black man threatened to cause trouble when he was told he could not vote. This man threatened to go to his home for his gun and started away, returning shortly afterward
0:22.3	and opening fire. In the general fuselade which followed, black and white men both participated.
0:29.6	Two young white men, Leo Bogart and Elmer McDaniels, were killed, and three white youths
0:36.1	wounded.
0:43.1	The black men at once took to cover, barricading themselves in the house of one of their number,
0:48.0	named Jules Perry, where they held out stubbornly until darkness.
0:53.9	Shortly after dark, it was discovered that they were stealing from the house into the woods nearby using the cover afforded by a sugar cane patch as protection they were able to get
1:00.0	out of the house and into the woods because of the fact that although a
1:03.4	considerable number of whites had gathered to oppose them no guard had been
1:08.1	posted about the house in which they had barricaded themselves.
1:13.1	Immediately upon news of the trouble being received in Orlando, the county seat,
1:18.3	Sheriff J.A. Frank Gordon accompanied a dozen or more deputies, headed a party of more than 100 men
1:24.2	who hurried to the scene of the trouble. This party was joined by 150 or more men who poured into the trouble zone from the towns of Ocoi, Winter Garden, and Crown Point.
1:35.3	A heavy guard has been posted about the woods in which the men have hidden, and Sheriff Gordon stated at 1 a.m.
1:42.3	that he has no fear of their escaping through the cordon of watchful sentries.
1:48.0	The man, Jules Perry, in whose house the black stood off the whites until darkness,
1:54.0	was captured after having been wounded as he was attempting to slip from his house to the wood.
2:00.0	He was in the cane patch when one of the sheriff forces noted him sneaking away and
2:05.2	wounded him sufficiently to stop his flight.
2:09.2	Sheriff Gordon stated earlier this morning that so far he has been unable to ascertain the name
2:14.4	of the man who originated the trouble. He states that he has the situation well in hand
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