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Author Kiser, Roger Dean.

Title The White House boys : an American tragedy / Roger Dean Kiser.

Publication Info. Deerfield Beach, Fla. : Health Communications, [2008]
©2008

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Description 1 online resource (xi, 224 pages) : illustrations
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Summary Hidden far from sight, deep in the thick underbrush of the North Florida woods are the ghostly graves of more than thirty unidentified bodies, some of which are thought to be children who were beaten to death at the old Florida Industrial School for Boys at Marianna. It is suspected that many more bodies will be found in the fields and swamplands surrounding the institution. Investigations into the unmarked graves have compelled many grown men to come forward and share their stories of the abuses they endured and the atrocities they witnessed in the 1950s and 1960s at the institution. The White House Boys: An American Tragedy is the true story of the horrors recalled by Roger Dean Kiser, one of the boys incarcerated at the facility in the late fifties for the crime of being a confused, unwanted, and wayward child. In a style reminiscent of the works of Mark Twain, Kiser recollects the horrifying verbal, sexual, and physical abuse he and other innocent ...
Subject Kiser, Roger Dean.
Florida. Industrial School for Boys at Marianna -- History.
Inmates of institutions -- Abuse of -- History.
Boys -- Institutional care -- Florida -- Marianna -- History.
Abused children -- Florida -- Marianna -- Biography.
POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Public Policy -- Social Security.
POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Public Policy -- Social Services & Welfare.
Other Form: Print version: Kiser, Roger Dean. White House boys. Deerfield Beach, Fla. Health Communications, ©2008 9780757314216 (OCoLC)319493147
ISBN 9780757397585 (electronic bk.)
0757397581 (electronic bk.)
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