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The Death of Willie Brewster: The agent, the judge and the trial

  • Anniston Star
John Fleming

As to the facts of the case of Willie Brewster, a man shot to death by nightriders on a lonely stretch of Alabama 202 more than four decades ago, Harry Sims is as detailed as the frayed onion-skin original report he holds out to a reporter with a shaky hand.

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