Palmer House Hotel, 344
Panola County, 178, 179
Papasan v. Allain, 173
Parchman Farm. See Parchman Prison
Parchman Penitentiary. See Parchman Prison
Parchman Prison, 32, 33, 41, 42, 49, 50, 55, 62, 83, 96, 174, 181, 182, 201, 206–20, 239, 285, 288, 290, 305
Parker, Wheeler, Jr., 232
Parks, Rosa, 221
Patterson, Pat, 57, 59
Patterson, Steve, 161, 164–68, 170–71
Payton, Larry, 4
PBS News Hour, 356
Peabody Hotel, 169
Pentecost, 233
Pepper, Allen, 219
Percy, William Alexander, 9
Perkins, Fay, 37
Peters, Ed, 171, 222
Phillips, George, 119, 121
Pickett, John, 71
Pittsburgh Steelers, 108
Platinum Plus, 65
Plato, 9
Point Break, 43
Pontotoc, 71, 272
Pontotoc County, 125
Poor People’s March, 102
Porterfield, Dwayne, 40–42
Powell, Kay, 34–37
Powers, Charles “Mo,” 307
Pravda, 167
Prentiss County, 71
Presley, Elvis, 80, 82, 170, 215, 296
Presley, Harold Ray, 296–98
Presley, Larry, 298
Presley, Priscilla, 80
Presley, Vernon, 206
Proctor, John, 285
Promises to Keep: On Life and Politics (Biden), 12
Provious, Chris, 127
Provious, Frankie, 127
Prude, Ben, 272–73
Prude, Todd, 272
Pruett, Marion Albert “Mad Dog,” 239, 290–92, 354
Psychedelic Haven, 245, 256
Puckett, Steve, 214, 220
Puerto Rico, 63
Pump House, 83–84
Puskus Lake, 238
Pusser, Buford, 189
Quantico, Virginia, 75, 191
Quarles, Chester, 324
Quitman County, 101, 177
Quito, 233
Rabat, Kingdom of Morocco, 321
Rainbow Bar, 57
Ramada Inn, 99
Rambo, Eddie, 49
Ramsey, Marshall, 154
Rasberry, Rusty, 136
Rashid, Mohammed, 354, 358–60
Ray, H. M., 15–16, 88, 104–6, 112, 180, 262, 307, 320
Reagan, Ronald, 245, 306
Reconstruction, 122
Red Banks, 72
Red Hot Pot, 58
Reed, James, 102, 104, 107
Reed, Willie “Chicken,” 234
Reid, Stephen, 43–45
Reinhold, Kai, 62–63
Rejebian, Michael, 121
Renfro, Will, 108–14, 116
Renasant Bank, 63–64
Republican National Committee, 183
Reynolds, Jim, 341
Reynolds, Tommy, 150
Rhodes, Richard, 237
Rice, Jerry, 11
Rice, Lent, 228
Richard, Mark, 341
RICO, 87–88, 90, 92, 100, 284, 337, 342, 344, 346
Riley, James Earl, 114
Ripley, 196
Roberts, Paul, 294
Roberts, Randy, 71
Roberts, Richard “Ricky,” 226
Rogers, Nancy, 338, 342, 345
Rolling Fork, 183
Rollins, Avery, 340, 341, 344
Rose, Pete, 88
Royals, Tom, 145
Rubin, Alvin, 317
Ruby, Jack, 237
Ruleville, 33
Rural Legal Services, 8, 11, 123, 173, 207
Rushdie, Salman, 342
Russell, Frank, 131–32
Russell, Marty, 4, 364
Russian National Prosecutors Conference, 320–21
Rust, Kevin, 195–98, 200
Sally Jessy Raphael Show, 239, 276
Salter, Sid, 153
San Diego, California, 45
Sanders, Dave, 162
Sardground, Mark, 14
Sardis, 322
Saulsberry, Helton, 96
Saulsberry Hill, 96
Schertz, Danny “Snakeman,” 56
Schlater, 233
Scruggs, Diane, 170
Scruggs, Richard “Dickie,” 74, 142, 158–68, 170–72
Scruggs, Zach, 160, 171, 298
Sealed Plaintiffs v. Sealed Defendants, 321, 353–70
Seattle, Washington, 46
Secret Service School, 259
Secure Compartmentalized Intelligence Facility (SCIF), 341
Sedona, Arizona, 45
Selander, Richard, 117
Selya, Bruce, 369
Senate Armed Services Committee, 253
Senatobia, 19
Senter, L. T., 22, 145–46, 180, 218, 219, 282, 316
Shakespeare, William, 169
Sharp, Paige, 8
Shaw, Harold, 240, 286–88
Shaw, Ronald Glen, 305–18
Shaw, William, 240, 285–88
Shelaine Motel, 127
Shin Bet, 337
Shuffield, Steve, 71
Shur, Gerald (Gerry), 90–91, 283, 289, 291–92, 354
Shur, Joe, 355, 356, 366, 368
Shurden Plantation, 230
Sidon, 233
Sidon, Lebanon, 232, 332
Silbert, Earl “Earl the Pearl,” 246
Silverwood, Jim, 216
Sirica, John, 246
Smith, Earl, 149–51, 153
Smith, Eddie, Jr., 132
Smith, George, 231, 233
Smith, Orma “Hack,” 92–99, 100, 102–3, 107, 267, 270–71, 309, 311–13, 316
Smithville, 63, 64
Snyder, Duke, 258–59
Southaven, 47, 108
Southaven Police Department, 47–48
Southern District of Mississippi, 219, 239, 290
Southern District of New York, 337–38
Soviet Union, 320
Spillers, Charlie, 43, 51, 144, 279–82, 284, 298–99, 301–3
Spradling, Don, 71, 130–31
Springer, Jerry, 276
Springfield Prison Hospital, 264
Square, The (Oxford), 332
Square Books, 224
St. Eve, Amy, 345, 346
Stacy, Don, 8
Stanford Law Review, 369
Starkville, 352
Starkville Daily News, 271
Starr, Kenneth, 173, 214
State Sovereignty Commission, 228
Staton, Carolyn Ellis, 363
Stennis, Coy, 240, 253
Stennis, John C., 12–13, 104–5, 167, 169, 239, 240–62
Stennis Institute of Government, 13
Stephens, Gene “Gino,” 81, 82
Stevenson, Linda (aka Honey Bun Bandit), 65–67
Stoneville, 31–32
Stopwatch Gang, The, 43, 49
Stuart, Harold, 285
Sullivan, Warren “Tut,” 87
Summerlin, Newson, 274
Sumner, 292
Sundlum, Bruce, 14
Sunflower County, 106, 206, 224, 227
Sunflower River, 211
Sunnyside, 233
Swan Lake, 230, 233
Swango, Curtis, 228
Swayze, Patrick, 43
Sykes, Alvin, 222–23, 225–26
Syria, 327
Tallahatchie County, 19, 221, 227, 230, 234
Tallahatchie River, 221, 230
Tate, Bonnie, 56
Tatum, Alan, 141
Tatum, Buck, Jr., 40–43
Tbilisi, Republic of Georgia, 321
Teed Off (Daly), 73
Tennessee-Tombigbee Waterway, 63
Terrorist: The Inside Story of the Highest Ranking Iraqi Terrorist Ever to Defect to the West (Emerson and Sesto), 321, 356
Texas, 47, 221
Time to Kill, A (Grisham), 114, 176
Thomas, Dave, 229
Thomas, John, 244–45, 249–50, 256
Thomas Jefferson on Wine (Hailman), 161
Thornburgh, Richard, 320
Thornton, Tommy, 258
Tichenor, Wayne, 21, 33, 36, 75–80, 83–88, 90, 98, 104–14, 116–17, 178–80, 182, 184, 185, 238, 285
Till, Emmett, 84, 177, 221–36
Till, Louis “L.T.,” 235, 236
Till-Mobley, Mamie, 225–26, 236
Timothy, Henry, 280, 281
Tippah County, 40, 41
Tirana, Bardyl, 14
Tishomingo County, 71
Titus, Harold, 246
Todd, Irby, 259
Tohill, Freddie, 299–300
Tohill, Jessie, Jr., 299–300
Tohill, Jessie, Sr., 299–303
Tohill, John Paul, 299–300
Tohill Clan, 239, 299–303
Tollison, Grady, 117–18, 131, 158, 299
Tong, B. B., 91–92
Tony’s Greek, 127
Toobin, Jeffrey, 284
Toole, Cornelius, 270
Travis, Bill, 167
Trinidad Valley, Philippines, 46
Trustmark Bank, 47
Tucker, James, 121, 152, 167
Tucker Act, 369
Tula, 187
Tulane University, 7, 8
Tunica, 37, 55, 65
Tunica County, 71, 82, 146
Tunisia, 156, 320, 321, 349
Tupelo, 120, 143, 150, 279–80
Tupelo Daily Journal (aka Northeast Mississippi Daily Journal), 4, 61, 64, 171, 353, 364
Turkey, 328
Tyson, Mike, 237
Union County, 273
United Arab Emirates, 322
United Southern Bank, 36
University of Mississippi. See Ole Miss
University of Southern Mississippi, 120
University of Virginia School of Law, 8, 242
U.S. Army, 257
U.S. Attorney General, 55
U.S. Attorney’s Manual, 91, 125
U.S. Attorney’s Office, 16, 65, 216
U.S. Civil Defense Agency, 14
U.S. Congress, 74, 277–78, 283, 326, 348
U.S. Court of Federal Claims in Washington, D.C., 369
U.S. Customs, 132, 156
U.S. Department of Agriculture, 173, 229, 352
U.S. Department of Defense, 148
U.S. Legal Counsel, 65
U.S. Marshal Service, 91, 111, 132, 152, 269, 270, 321, 353
U.S. News & World Report, 276
U.S. Postal Inspectors, 285
U.S. Senate, 153, 169, 240, 244, 346
U.S. State Department, 52, 324
U.S. Supreme Court, 55, 130, 173, 201, 248–49, 250, 318
USA Today, 232
USAID, 334
Vance, Bobby, 333
Vegas Nights, 22
Verona, 23
Victoria, 28
Vietnam War, 7, 75, 241, 257, 298, 335
Visser, Michelle, 369
Waddy, Joseph, 250–62
Waide, Jim, 156
Walker, Percy (aka Peacelover Shabazz), 24–29
Walking Tall, 189
Wall Doxey State Park, 133
Wall Street Journal, 101, 107
Wallace, Johnny, 114
Wallace, Mike, 74
Waller, Bill, Sr., 221
Walls, 65, 87
Walls, Johnnie, 123
Wal-Mart, 38, 47, 59, 274, 328
Walnut, 41, 196
Walter Reed Hospital, 240, 243, 254, 257
Walthall Hotel, 317
Walton, Dale, 239, 262–67
Walton, Elmer, 57, 58
Walton, Judy, 57, 58
War on Poverty, 277
War Powers Act, 13
Ward, Mildred, 240, 242
Ward, Sela, 240
Warren, Jimmy, 350
Warren Commission, 258
Washam, Johnny Paul, 28–31
Washington, D.C., 10–13, 15, 55, 75, 82, 88, 102, 105, 164, 231, 277
City Council, 113
Colorado Building, 15
D.C. Medical Examiner, 11
George Washington Hospital, 254
Georgetown (neighborhood), 10, 14
Give a Damn Foundation, 13
La Nicoise, 14
Metropolitan Club, 13
Old Ebbit Grill, 14
Palm Steakhouse, 14
St. Elizabeth’s Hospital, 11
U.S. Capitol, 12, 247
Wine & Cheese Shop, 10, 247
Washington County, 224
Washington Freedom Forum, 166, 230
Washington Post, 10, 225, 230, 242, 246
Washington Redskins, 108
Water Valley, 71, 148
Watergate, 82, 147
Weiss, Baruch, 338
Weld, William, 124
West, Carl, 57
West Bank, 333
West Memphis, Arkansas, 85
West Point, 57, 62, 352
Weston, Greg, 49
Whitaker, Hugh, 228
White, Hugh, 233
White, Mary Jo, 338
White Citizens Council, 188–89, 228, 233, 234
Whitehaven, Tennessee, 108
Whitfield, 262–63, 325
Whitwell, Bob, 96, 114, 115, 117–18, 120–21, 125, 294–95
Why They Kill, 237
Wicker, Roger, 118, 153, 299
Wilbanks, Jerry, 274–75
Wilbanks, Terry, 274
Wilkie, Curtis, 168–69
Wilkinson, Buddy, 31
Williams, Dudley, 58
Williams, Jerre, 317
Williams, Murray, 93, 100
Williams, Parham, 15, 16
Williams, Pat, 115
Wilson, Kevis “K-money,” 65–66
Winston County, 123
Winters, Terry Lynn, 212, 214, 219
Without Villains There Would Be No Heroes, 171
Witness Protection Program, 90–91, 280–81, 283, 288–92, 321, 354, 360, 361–62, 367
Wood, Donald, 268, 269
Woodrow Wilson Fellowship, 7, 8
Woodson, Stanley, 132, 140
World War II, 230, 235, 236
Wounded Knee, South Dakota, 56
Wren, Ello, 26
Wright, J. Skelly, 250
Wright, Lionel, 43–45
Wright, Moses, 229, 231, 235
Wright, Simon, 223, 226, 231, 232, 236
Wyatt, Carrol Lee, 28–29
Wynter, Dana, 322
Yalobusha County, 148
Yasser Arafat, 320, 345
Yemen, 321, 353
Young, John, 131, 297
Young, Lula, 293–95
Young and the Restless, The, 58
About the Author
John Hailman attended both the Sorbonne in Paris (two years) and the Universite Laval in Quebec, Canada. Then he received his B.A. from Millsaps College in Jackson, Mississippi, his M.A. from Tulane University in New Orleans, Louisiana, and his J.D. from the University of Mississippi in Oxford, Mississippi. He was a Prettyman Fellow in Trial Practice at Georgetown and received the International Law Certificate from the National School for Magistrates in Paris, France. He is one of the rare prosecutors elected to the exclusive American Board of Trial Advocates and was a Founding Bencher of American Inn of Court III.
Hailman has received numerous commendations from a series of FBI directors and from attorneys general from Griffin Bell and Janet Reno to Edwin Meese and Alberto Gonzalez, including the Justice Department’s highest honor, the Attorney General’s Distinguished Service Award. He was the only Justice Department employee to receive, for his tenure as the nation’s longest-serving U.S. attorney criminal chief, the Senior Executive Service Leadership Award.
Hailman taught for many years at the FBI Academy and the Justice Department Advocacy Institute in Washington, D.C., and Columbia, South Carolina. He has been an adjunct professor of law at the University of
Mississippi for over twenty-five years and still teaches trial advocacy and law and literature there.
Hailman and his wife Regan have two children, Dr. Allison Hailman Doyle of Meridian, Mississippi, and Lydia Hailman King of Baltimore, Maryland, and one granddaughter, Abbey McGrew Doyle, age two. The Hailmans divide their retirement time between homes in Oxford, Mississippi, and a village in the Charente region of southwest France near Bordeaux.
THE FEDS: aka “Mississippi’s Untouchables” during the FBI’s Operation Pretense—a statewide undercover investigation into corruption by county supervisors. Clockwise from upper left: Bob Whitwell, U.S. attorney for the Northern District; James Tucker, criminal chief, Southern District; the author, criminal Chief for the Northern District; George Phillips, U.S. attorney for the Southern District. (Courtesy of The Clarion-Ledger, J. D. Schwalm, photographer)
Reunion of former law clerks of Chief Judge William C. Keady. Front row from left: Martin Kilpatrick, Frances Griffin, the judge’s loyal secretary, and Judge Keady. Back row from left: Dan Webb, Jerry Read, the author, Will Ford, Wayne Drinkwater, and Charles M. Powers.
Life-size official portrait of brilliant U.S. District Judge Neal Biggers, which hangs on the wall of his courtroom in Oxford. Counsel for the Scruggs defendants referred to him, unfairly, as “Maximum Neal.”
Beloved U.S. Senator John C. Stennis, center, flanked by the author, the Senator’s legal counsel and speechwriter during Watergate, and the brother of Stanley Kimmitt, Secretary of the Senate, during a visit to Montana in September 1972.
Statue of William “Cousin Will” Faulkner on his bench in front of the old Oxford Federal Courthouse, now City Hall, where the author tried some of his first cases.
A statue honoring James Meredith, the first black student at Ole Miss, which now stands in a special plaza between the Lyceum and the Library. As Chancellor Robert Khayat stated in dedicating it: “We are committed to respect the dignity of every person, and this monument stands as tangible evidence of that commitment.” (Photo by Nathan Latil, University of Mississippi photographer)
National Advocacy Center of the U.S. Justice Department at the University of South Carolina Law School where the author taught for many years.
The faculty of the Justice Department’s Advocacy Institute or “school for prosecutors” in Washington before it moved to its current quarters in South Carolina. The author is on the left front beside current U.S. District Judge Ginny Grenade of Mobile and in front of U.S. Magistrate Richard Dean of Atlanta.
The author as a student at the Sorbonne in Paris where he spent two years constantly watching trials as a “courtroom rat” at the Palais de Justice in Paris and the Old Bailey in London.
Regan, the author’s wife, at the Barnes and Noble homestore in New York where the author’s book Thomas Jefferson on Wine was a “staff selection.”