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Oral History of June M. Jeffries, Esq.
Index
60 Minutes(television show), 242
8th & H murder trial, 249
Adams, Darnella, 256
Adams, Lee, 125
Affordable Care Act, 296
AKA (sorority – Alpha Kappa Alpha), 206. 291
American Red Cross, 106
Anderson, Leslie, 95
Banfield, Edward, 100
Barry, Marion, 29, 221
Bass, Karen, 156
Beal, Deborah, 51, 95, 130, 223-31
Bell, Iris, 158
Belzoni Mississippi, 1-4, 17, 18, 22-30, 33, 42-5, 322, 329, 331
Beverly Hills Cops (movie), 75
Bieben, Betsy, 196
Bing, Dave, 137
Biros, Mark, 210
Black Bottom (Detroit area), 5
Black Klansman (movie), 156
Blair, Bonnie, 83
Blake, Rick, 95
Blatty, William Peter, 112
The Exorcist (book/movie), 112
Blues Trail, 330
Bowden, Kirk, 322
Brady Handgun Violence Prevention Act, 174, 219, 235, 282
Broderick, Patti, 187
Brogsdale, Ricky, 197, 201, 205, 210, 258, 276, 320
Brown v. Board of Education (case), 44
Bruce, Blanche, 186
Bunnell, Steve, 284
Bush, Barbara, 310
Bush, George H. W. (“Daddy”), 221, 310
Cahalan, William, 149
Canada, 45, 48, 54, 62, 64-65, 85, 102, 128, 138
Cannon, Gregory, 212, 213, 251
Cannon, Linda, 211-12, 250
Caputy, Vince, 192
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CARE (care.org), 68
Carroll, Morgan, 113, 133
Chambers, Julius, 106
Charles Wright Museum of African American History, 140
child murder and abuse, 178, 213, 218, 250-51, 254, 256, 258, 274-75, 292-94, 307, 313-17
Churikian, Sam, 1333, 179
Clark, Marcia, 286, 290
Clayton, Louis (cousin), 36
Clinton, William (Bill), 311
Concerns of Police Survivors, 245
Contreras, Rudolph (Rudy), 245
Cook, Julian Abele, 140
COPS. See Concerns of Police Survivors
Cox, Wendell, 158
Crump, Benjamin, 297
Daddy Bush See Bush, George H. W.
Daily Beast, 257
Dali Lama, 311
Daly, Hank, 231
Darden, Chris, 285-86
Day, Doris, 86
Dean, Marthell, 232
Detroit, 1-2, 4, 6-7, 11-13, 15, 17, 21, 23-25, 29, 31, 34, 39, 40-48, 50, 52-58, 60, 61, 64-69, 71,
74-75, 78, 80, 85-86, 88, 90, 92, 114, 117, 121, 124- 28, 130, 132-35, 138-40, 144, 149-50,
153, 155, 158-60, 164, 177, 179, 183, 186, 188, 200, 237, 286, 306, 322, 326, 331
Detroit Recorder’s Court, 113
diGenova, Joseph (Joe), 117, 154, 157-58, 214, 310
diGenova, Victoria Toensing, 154
Dillinger, John, 17, 18
District of Columbia Superior Court, 158, 312, 318, 325
Dozier, Lamont, 115, 136
Ebony (magazine), 15, 53
Edwards, 237, 238
Edwards, Harry, 235, 237-38
Edwards, Mildred (Mickey), 238
Eilperin, Stephen, 190, 192
Evans, Sherri Harris, 187
Evers, Medgar, 333
father
Ferris, Jay, 218
Fitzwater, Marlon, 221
Fletcher, Crystal, 249
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Fletcher, Louise, 251
Flowers, Curtis, 297
Ford, Geraldine Bledsoe, 51
Ford, Yvonne, 198, 203
Francis, Michelle, 253
Fulwood, Isaac (Ike), 199
Gentzler, Doreen, 326
Gibson, Brian, 232, 245, 262, 289, 290
Gilman, 117, 146, 153
Gilman, Lenny, 117, 145, 146, 147, 151, 152, 154, 156
Gilman, Leonard (Lenny), 117
Gold, Robert, 133
Gordon, Allen, 124
Gordon, Richard Allen, 112
Gordon, Steve, 183
Gray, James
transplants, 39
Gray, James (cousin), 39
Great Migration, 42
Great-Aunt Hun, 26
Greene, Henry, 214
Greenwood, Mississippi, 3, 4, 18, 45\
Hadding, Henry, 146-47, 156
Harris, Stanley, 118, 154, 157
Harwood, Pam, 128
Heady, Henry, 117
Heller (case), 305
Hobson, Donald, 160
Holder, Eric, 215, 220, 231, 315, 324
Holland, Brian, 115, 136
Holland, Eddie, 115, 136
Howard, Roscoe, 215
Hubbard, Orville, 69
Hudson, Rock, 108
I Love Lucy (television show), 34
Ice, Patricia, 332
In the Dark (podcast), 297
Invictus (poem), 55
Jackson, Amy Berman, 249, 310
Jackson, Moxie, 210, 266
Jacobson, Stewart, 108
James (cousin), 29, 31, 37, 264, 265
Jeffries, Bettie Wade (mother), 1
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Civil Rights Movement, 25
NAACP, 25
Pig (nickname), 3
Jeffries, Rudy (son), 3, 16, 21, 29, 33, 46, 66, 72, 77, 108, 165, 167, 172-73, 187, 207, 209, 213,
219, 256, 298-99, 304, 308-10, 313-14, 331-32, 334
Jeffries, June M. – Personal
bar exam, 95, 126,-28, 133-34, 147, 219
bicycle accident, 70
Black Women’s Agenda, 291
Brookside Gardens volunteer, 23
Cass Technical High School, 72
Civil Rights Movement, 162
compassion for defendants, 306
Critical Thinking Club, 16
discrimination, 44, 241, 243
Dixon Elementary School, 51, 56-57, 59, 68, 79
empathy, 175, 177, 276
Facebook, 22-23, 59-60, 73, 130, 246, 265, 281, 332
failures of society, 304
Federal Trade Commission, 105, 111
genealogical research, 19-21
Georgetown Law School, 72, 103-05, 109-13, 119, 124-25, 132, 140, 163-65, 171, 209, 334
Black students, 110
Gilbert & Sullivan Society, 72, 119
racism, 118
Georgetown Medical School, 143
Girl Scouts, 46, 49, 64-65, 79, 127, 184
Golden Rule, 173
high school honors program, 71
horseback riding, 66
Mettetal Junior High School, 51, 59-60
Mexico City, 46, 85
Montreal trip, 36-37, 45, 78, 80, 85, 157
Motown, 10-11, 14, 54, 61, 115, 136, 150-51, 162, 237
National Archives, 18, 19, 21, 105
National Merit Semi-Finalist, 78
piano, 65
PREP (summer pre-med program), 81
racial discrimination, 29, 67-68, 106
relationships with survivors or family members, 308
role of religion in family, 46
serendipity, 156-57, 160
sewing, 65
Southern food, 27, 31, 45, 273, 330
Temptations, 61, 115, 117, 136, 150-53
Theodore Roosevelt Elementary School, 12, 47
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typewriters, 15, 52, 135, 218
violin, 65
volunteering with the Obama campaign, 324
Wesleyan University, 18-19, 78-80, 82-109, 125, 129-30, 132, 206, 225, 230-31, 270, 334-35
Jeffries, June M. – Professional
Child Fatality Review Committee, 252
Detroit Misdemeanor Defenders, 179
Detroit Recorder’s Court, 133, 144-45
guardian ad litem, 116, 145
Misdemeanor Defenders Office, 133-34. 162, 182, 214, 326
staff attorney, 114, 134
Harvard Trial Advocacy Program, 160
Patman & Young, 114, 136-37, 139-41, 143, 153, 158-59, 164
racial discrimination, 140
role of drugs and alcohol in crimes, 320
Street Law, 73, 119, 120, 123, 177
United States Attorney’s Office, 96, 116-18, 125, 141, 145-47, 152, 154-57, 160, 165, 169,
172-75, 178, 187-88, 218, 258, 308, 312, 315, 320, 324, 326
Felony One section, 183, 210, 213, 301
Senior Litigation Counsel, 132, 209, 217, 223, 250
Superior Court Division, 215
United States Tax Court, 136
Wayne County Prosecutor’s Office, 116, 146, 160
paternity division, 147
Public Defender Service, 171, 175, 256
Jeffries, Malcolm Sylvester (father), 1-2, 5, 8-9, 11, 13, 17, 20, 25, 42, 44
death, 8, 39, 75, 88, 90, 92-93, 104
Jet (magazine), 135
Johnson, Bruce, 281
Johnson, Julius, 323
Johnson, Norma Holloway, 170, 241, 323
Johnson, Ramsey, 209, 214
Jones, Van, 156
Jordan, Paul, 249
Kemp, Gary, 312
Kendricks, Eddie, 117, 152
Kennedy, Anthony, 313
Kenny, Tim, 150
Kimberly Clark, 107
King, Patricia, 112, 124
Kluger, Richard, 44
Kramer, Noel, 169
Krisciunas, Rich, 155
Krisciunas, Richard (Rich), 150
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Ladner, Joyce, 333
Leary, Mary Lou, 215
Lee, George, 331
Lee, Spike, 156-57
Lemon, Jack, 86
Lewis, Wilma, 215
Long-Doyle, Deborah, 186
Martin, Trayvon, 296-97
Mason, Thomas, 55
Mathis, Eddie, 210
McFadden, Cecil, 15, 48, 52, 114, 135
McFadden, Ulysses, 135
McQuarry, Thelma, 114, 135
Medicolegal Investigation of Death Guidelines for the Application of Pathology to Crime
Investigation by Werner Spitz, 319
Meredith, James, 322, 333
Miranda (case), 112
Mississippi Civil Rights Museum, 333
Morrison & Boyd Organic Chemistry (book), 94
Morrison, Truman, 183-84
Morse, Valerie, 257
Mueller, Bob, 231, 257, 309, 321
Mundy, Ken, 211, 266-67
Murphy, Eddie, 75
Murphy, Russell, 100-01, 103
New York Times, 138, 163, 331
New York Times Magazine, 286
Nixon, Richard, 96
Obama, Barack, 119, 163, 315, 324, 326
Ockershausen, Andy, 110
Our Town (podcast), 110
Oxford, Mssissippi, 31
Parker, James, 226
Parker, June Marie Jeffries. See Jeffries, June M.
Patterson, Paul, 217
Patton, Peter, 100
Patton, Stevie, 282
Peeping Tom Murderer. See Brogsdale, Ricky
People (magazine), 108, 325
Perry Mason (television show), 66, 104, 134, 321
Perry, Beverley, 125
Pinkston, Randall, 332
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Reno, Janet, 240
Richey, Larry, 112
Roberts, Michelle, 225, 290
Roberts, Richard, 187
Rochon, Mark, 290
Rogers, Judith, 237
Rosenwald, Julius, 4
Roy, Tommy (cousin), 35, 36
Ryan, April, 156
Scandal (television show), 222, 310
Schulman, Jerome, 112
Scott, Curtis, 125
Scott, Willard, 326
Seymour, Robin, 54, 61, 151
Sheffield, Horace, 51
Silence of the Lambs (movie), 203, 260
Simmons family, 2,-3 22-23
Simple Justice (book), 44
Simpson, OJ, 282, 285-88, 291
Sisters (television show), 229
Smith, Dee Marie, 230, 291
Smith, Judy, 221, 310
Smith, Ralph, 188
Smith, Roger, 107
Smith, William Kennedy, 287
Spitz, Werner, 319
Stephanopoulos, George, 311
Stephens, Jay, 214,-16, 220, 221, 250
Supreme Court of the United States, 122, 284, 296, 309, 312- 14
Swinging Time (television show), 54, 61, 151
Taylor, Jeff, 215
technology, 215, 217, 219-20, 308
Thomas, Clarence, 79, 237, 312
Thomas, Faith, 125
Thompson, Perry, 312
Till Mobley, Mamie, 331
Till, Emmett, 288, 322, 331-32
Tobias, Sheila, 82
Totenberg, Nina, 29
United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit, 165, 235
Van Susteren, Greta, 287, 325
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Vietnam War, 25
World War II, 5
Wade, Barbara (cousin), 36, 63
Wade, Betty (aunt), 76
Wade, Bit (uncle), 35, 37
Wade, Edith (couisin), 34, 36, 38-39, 63
Wade, Fredericka (aunt), 2, 34
Wade, Hugh (uncle), 38
Wade Larry (uncle), 76
Wade, Lessie (aunt), 2
Wade Pat (uncle), 2
Wade, Phyllis (aunt), 4, 5
Wade Richard (uncle), 9, 92
Wade, Ruth (aunt), 2
Wade, Sadie (aunt), 2, 26,-7, 34, 36-37, 40, 43, 63
Wade, Sadie Ruth (cousin), 34, 36, 40, 63
Ward, Willis, 116, 131, 144
Washington Post (newspaper)), 98, 138, 159, 293
Washington, Walter, 123
WCHB (Detroit radio station), 151, 158
We the People (television show), 222
Weber, Doris, 163
Weisberg, Frederick, 190, 195, 197, 232
Wesleyan University
ethnomusicology, 98
gamelan (musical instrument), 99-100
WGPR (Detroit television station), 159
What’s My Line (television show), 53
Whittaker, Claire, 187
Wilmot, Dave, 110, 163
Wilson, Pete, 296
Windsor (case), 296
Windsor, John Allen, 191-92
wire plea offer, 274
WJLB (Detroit radio station), 151, 158
women and minorities, 147, 165
Wonder, Stevie, 310
Woody’s, 161, 185, See Woodward & Lothrop
Wright, Charles, 139-40
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