Edmond Reed, GA, 1943 July 19

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_ Reed, a 26-year-old Negro Private in the U, S. Army was

in a Macon, Ga., busk station on the night of Auge 20,
- 1942, when Macon policeman J. G. (Doc) Favors and Sgte
i. W. Whitmire of the Military Police sought to questio

him about being partially out of uniform. Reed pulled a
_ pistol and killed Favors and wounded Whitmire. He was
__ captured in_a_nearby swamp by the military police two —

days later and convicted of the killing of Favors, He _
_ was electrocuted on July 19, 1913.

‘The H&KKE Thomasville Times-Enterprise, Thomasvill e,Ga.

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Reed, a 26-year-old Negro Private in the U.S, Army was
in a Macon, Ga., busk station on the night of Auge 20,
192, when Macon policeman J. G. (Doc) Favors and Sgte
M. W. Whitmire of the Military Police sought—to question]
him about being partially out of uniform. Reed pulled a
pistol and killed Favors and wounded Whitmire. He was
captured in a nearby swamp by the military police two
days later and convicted of the killing of Favors. He
was electrocuted on July 19, 19)3.

‘The H&KKE Thomasville Times-Enterprise, Thomasvill e,Gae

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Reed, a 26-year-old Negro Private in the U. S. Army was
in a Macon, Ga., busk station on the night of Auge 20,
19li2, when Macon policeman J, G. (Doc) Favors and Sgt.
M. W, Whitmire of the Military Police sought to questior|
him about being partially out of uniform, Reed pulled al
pistol and killed Favors and wounded Whitmire.

captured in a nearby sw

The WSKH Thomasville Times-Enterprise, Thomasvill e,Ca.

9-23-1926

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