The Ruby McCollum Case
I love to hear about cases that happened decades ago that I had never heard of before. On the flip side of that I also get the most frustrated with those types of cases. While the stories are interesting generally in many areas and often show us how things were in times past, they also often seem to get a life of their own and it makes it more difficult to determine what is fact, and what is fiction. This particular case is just such a case. On August 3, 1952, prominent African American Live Oak resident, Ruby McCollum walked into the office of Dr (now state senator) Clifford Leroy Adams. By the time she left the exam room to go to her car where two of her four children were waiting for her Dr. Adams lay on the floor with four gun shot wounds. There was little to no secret as to who was responsible considering there were plenty of witnesses in the waiting room and the office. Ruby was promptly and swiftly arrested. Over the decades since the ...