‘I never dreamed I’d ever be a free man again’: How a town of Old World farmers saved a black man marked for death
Decades after his scheduled execution, Cauthen poses with a horse in this photo, which ran with his June 20 obituary in The Spokesman-Review.
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This photo, published by the Herald on March 17, 1964, shows Robert Williams, right, returning to the farm with John Zirker, left, and J.J. Zirker, center, just a day after being released from custody.
The Spokesman-Review/courtesy photo Robert Williams, left, once known as Charles Cauthen, walks beside attorney C.E. Hormel, right, the day he learned the governor had denied Georgia’s extradition order, published March 17, 1964.
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