- Collection:
- Southwind recordings
- Title:
- Southwind No. 37
- Creator:
- Lewis, Boyd, 1944-
- Date of Original:
- 1982-03-05
- Subject:
- Crime--Georgia--Atlanta
Williams, Wayne, 1958-
Brown, Lee P.
Brooks, Tyrone
Police--Georgia--Atlanta
Atlanta Police Department (Atlanta, Ga.)
Missing children
Murder victims - Location:
- United States, Georgia, Fulton County, Atlanta, 33.749, -84.38798
- Medium:
- radio programs
- Type:
- Sound
- Format:
- audio/mpeg
- Description:
- This recording opens with singer Johnny Cash's rendition of "Southwind" and an introduction of the program by Boyd Lewis. The entire program is a feature on the trial and investigation of Wayne Williams who was convicted of the murders of two individuals. He was suspected of the murders of nearly two dozen other murders as part of a series of crimes generally known as the Atlanta Missing and Murdered child cases. The program contains audio excerpts Atlanta Public Safety Commissioner Lee Brown; Fulton County District Attorney Lewis Slaton; attorney Mary Welcome, Georgia State Representative Tyrone Brooks; journalist Jeff Prugh, and from Wayne Williams. The program is mostly narrated by Boyd Lewis and discusses details of the physical evidence of the cases and of the post investigative period after Williams was incarcerated. The program ends with a sign off by Boyd Lewis.
"Southwind" was a radio program about the issues, people, and culture of the South that aired on WABE-FM, Atlanta's public radio station. The series, which aired from 1980 to 1987, was conceived, produced, and reported by journalist Boyd Lewis. - Local Identifier:
- MSS 1118.037.001
ahc.1118.037.001 - Metadata URL:
- http://album.atlantahistorycenter.com/cdm/ref/collection/p17222coll4/id/119
- Additional Rights Information:
- Copyright is held by Boyd Lewis. This work is licensed under a Creative Commons, Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivsCC BY-NC-ND license https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/
- Extent:
- 7 in. reel-to-reel audio tape, 3 3/4 ips
29:40 minutes - Original Collection:
- Southwind recordings
- Holding Institution:
- Atlanta History Center
- Rights:
-
