Summoned at Midnight: A Story of Race and the Last Military Executions at Fort Leavenworth Audiobook (Free)

Uncovers the hidden globe of the army legal system as well as the romantic history of racism that pervaded the military long after integration.

Richard A. Serrano reveals how racial discrimination in america military criminal justice system driven whose lives mattered and deserved another possibility and whose didn’t. Between 1955 and 1961, a group of white and dark condemned troops lived together on death row at Fort Leavenworth military prison. Although convicted of equally heinous about Summoned at nighttime: A TALE of Race as well as the Last Armed service Executions at Fort Leavenworth offences, all the white troops were ultimately paroled and came back to their households, spared by high-ranking military officers, the armed service courts, sympathetic doctors, highly trained attorneys, the White House staff, or President Eisenhower himself.

During the same 6-year period, only black color soldiers had been hanged. Some were cognitively challenged, others dependent on substances or psychologically unbalanced-the same mitigating situations that had won white military their loss of life row reprieves. These males lacked the advantages of political connections, expert lawyers, or open public support; just their mothers begged fruitlessly for his or her lives to become spared. By 1960, John Bennett was the youngest black inmate at Fort Leavenworth. His lost battle for clemency was fought between 2 vastly different presidential administrations-Eisenhower’s and Kennedy’s-as the civil privileges movement was gaining steam.

Drawing on interviews, trial transcripts, and rarely released archival material, Serrano brings to life the characters within this dropped history: from eager mothers and disheartened appeals attorneys, to the jail doctors, psychiatrists, and chaplains. He shines a light on the scandalous legal maneuvering that reached the doors of the White colored House as well as the disparity in capital consequence that was cut so purely along racial lines.