Lindsey Graham
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15,077 appearances
196 recordings
52 series
first heard Aug 2024
last heard 16 Sep
Lindsey Graham’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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Marshal John Carroll never gave a reason for reopening the investigation into Leach's death, which led to many suspecting the decision was racially or politically motivated.
But others took the opportunity to vilify America's most famous black lawman.
A Little Rock, Arkansas newspaper declared that Reeves was in league with some of the worst cutthroats and outlaws in Indian country.
His hometown newspaper in Van Buren, Arkansas concluded that he had carried out a foul murder committed in pure wantonness.
And the paper also took the opportunity to slander Reeves' character, accusing him of extorting small sums of money from prisoners and having made an insulting proposal to a white woman, a familiar accusation often leveled against black men in the Jim Crow South.
Several months passed before Reeves managed to pay the $3,000 bond securing his release from jail while awaiting trial.
And while the proceedings moved forward, a white juror named A.J.
Boyd confronted him in the streets of Fort Smith.
He tapped Reeves on the shoulder with his walking cane and began aggressively questioning him about the case.
According to Reeves, when he refused to discuss the charges, Boyd threatened his life, declaring, Yes, I am a juryman, and if you want to save your neck, you'd better make a statement to me, you damn black son of a bitch.
I'm just as certain to break your neck as I have this cane in my hand.
Me and three others have got it in for you.
Reeves reported this incident, and Boyd was ordered to appear before Judge Isaac Parker, the same judge who had recruited Reeves into the marshal service and was now tasked with overseeing his trial.
Boyd insisted that he was drunk and had no memory of the confrontation, but Parker declared him guilty of contempt of court and dismissed him from the jury.
More than a year went by before Reeves' trial finally began in October 1887.
Under the watchful eye of Judge Parker, prosecutors called 11 witnesses to the stand, nine of whom had been arrested by Reeves himself for criminal offenses.
The prosecution's case relied heavily on the testimony of two witnesses who declared that Reeves intentionally shot Leach during a heated argument over the cook's dog.
But upon cross-examination, one of the witnesses admitted that Reeves and Leach appeared friendly before the shooting, and that afterwards, Reeves tended to Leach's wounds.
And when Reeves took the witness stand, he insisted that the shooting had been accidental.
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