basicwiz opened this issue on Mar 07, 2015 · 5 posts
basicwiz posted Sat, 07 March 2015 at 11:13 AM
As stated... this has nothing to do with Poser. It does have to do with the age-old question "Does my life matter and have any meaning."
Larry Fugate was a well-known and respected newspaperman in Arkansas for over 50 years. He was a reporter for the Pine Bluff Commercial and the Jonesboro Sun for many years before ending his career as the Editor of the Commercial. I was fortunate to know him through most of this time. Larry was a masterful story teller and one of the best writers I have ever known. He was a family man.
All of this sounds like the story of a pleasant, interesting, but all-in-all average person... until you dig a little deeper.
In the mid-1960's a scandal rocked first Arkansas, then the Nation when it came to light that inmates at Cumins and Tucker Prison Farms in Arkansas were being quietly murdered by guards and secretly buried. The Pine Bluff Commercial was the newspaper that broke this story. The way it was done was very simple: a young reporter was sent undercover as an inmate at the prison. He stayed "under" for some 30 days before being released on a Federal Magistrate's order, detailed information in hand.
That young reporter was Larry Fugate. He risked his life for the story of a lifetime. It didn't make him famous, but it changed the way prison systems would be run forever after.
Larry died on Friday, March 6th, following a lengthy illness. He was 69.
Yes. One man CAN make a difference.
MY friend is the proof.
RIP
Sa_raneth posted Sat, 07 March 2015 at 11:44 AM
thanks Basic Wiz this is a great story and I am sorry the man is gone
Coleman posted Sat, 07 March 2015 at 7:15 PM
Sounds like he was a good man - RIP
RorrKonn posted Sun, 08 March 2015 at 12:17 AM
I'm sorry ya friend died.
I know the guards wasn't attempting to be kind but they done the prisoners a unintentional favor.Killing some one is way more humane then prison.
Your worst day out here is still 10 times better then ya best day in prison.
30 days ant nothing put the nicest guy in prison and in 5 years.the devil would fear him.
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Cybermonk posted Sun, 08 March 2015 at 6:22 PM
Morality of the highest level. Peace be with him and his family.
"What we do in life, echoes in eternity" Gladiator
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