Caliph Washington at the Jefferson County courthouse in Bessemer, Alabama, after being released on bond from the county jail.
He is talking with his attorney, Orzell Billingsley. Washington was charged with killing a Lipscomb police officer in 1957. By 1970, he had been tried and convicted twice, but both decisions were overturned. Though tried and found guilty a third time in April 1970, he was finally released from priso...
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Alabama Department of Archives and History
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| Online Access: | http://cdm17217.contentdm.oclc.org/cdm/ref/collection/amg/id/108607 |