Caught Between Two Guns
On a hot Florida summer day in August 1952, Ruby McCollum, the wealthy African-American wife of Suwannee County’s Bolita King, murdered Dr. C. LeRoy Adams, a beloved white physician and recently elected state senator.
The sensational murder trial was widely covered in newspapers ranging from the New York Times to The Times in London, and was the first of its kind since 1855.
Now, an author who was a neighbor to the McCollum family and delivered by Dr. Adams recounts the story of a forbidden interracial love affair gone wrong.