LIVE OAK, Fla. (AP) - The 1952 slaying of a prominent white doctor by a wealthy black woman is the subject of a new documentary that's reopening old wounds in rural north Florida.
The slaying of Clifford Leroy Adams by Ruby McCollum stirred racial tensions in Suwannee County during the Jim Crow era, when Ku Klux Klansmen regularly marched through downtown Live Oak.
Prosecutors said McCollum shot the doctor over a $116 bill. McCollum testified Adams forced her into a long sexual relationship, and that she wrested a gun from his hand after she refused his advances.
McCollum was found guilty and sentenced to death. Years later, she avoided execution when she was found legally insane. The documentary "You Belong To Me" compiles a decade of research to explore why she killed Adams.
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