Prison Inferno Plotted, Fire Survivors Testify

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Date visible in photo 01. Page 2 identified by the printed jump line in photo 04; photo 06 says continued from page 1. The judge’s given name appears as “Mahlong” in this printing; retained below with a reading flag. Spelling and casualty counts are not silently corrected. This is reporting of testimony, not the inquest transcript. Newspaper allegations and testimony are reported claims, not independently established findings. Reading transcriptions normalize spacing and line-break hyphenation; bracketed flags preserve uncertainty. No generative image restoration was used.

Original publication

Prison Inferno Plotted, Fire Survivors Testify

Date

July 18, 1967

Credits

Photographed and supplied by Spencer Madrie

Publisher

Playground Daily News

Published in

Fort Walton Beach, Florida

Where to find it

1-2

Reference collection

Fort Walton Beach library archives microfilm (user-provided provenance)

Playground Daily News, Tuesday, July 18, 1967, front page and continuation identified as page 2. Source layout and transcriptions visually inspected. July 19 Georgia item date established by overlapping neighboring columns in photos 09, 19, 21 and 24-25; page 10 visible in photo 08. Photographer confirms discovery order. Separate PDFs derived from the existing archival reading edition/transcription, retaining its uncertainty flags. This reformatting does not establish facts beyond the source or resolve earlier source limitations.

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