A Missouri Incident

"I was nine years old and I remember it like yesterday. Word of it went through our area like a flash fire — went “WHOOF!” — and I never heard another thing about it as long as I lived there. Not another word."This is an autobiography — the true story of a tiny Missouri town (1920-1930) — the murder of a teacher in a one-room school, and the lynching of the young, innocent black man, Raymond Gunn."The silence that had surrounded me all of my life suddenly became a screaming need to tell a very personal side of a midwest horror." — Wallace M. Kunkel Read more