Talk:Isaac Woodard
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I'm trying to find some information regarding a successful conviction in the Woodward case. According to this review of Touch of Evil, the reviewer says:
In the second case, Welles used his radio commentary program to help bring to book a policeman who administered the beating to Naval Veteran Woodward, and to publicize the policeman's eventual sentencing to a year in jail for the atrocity.
To date, I have been unable to locate anything in regards to this. Additionally, I do not feel this reference is authorative enough (eg, it states Woodward as having been in the Navy, when he was an Army sergeant) to be cited in the article. If anyone can assist me on this, I would appreciate it. Thanks. --Mitsukai 04:00, 16 May 2005 (UTC)
will do
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[edit] Isaac Woodard
Although Woodard's name is spelled "Woodward" on the 1920 manuscript census, his Army discharge papers and Social Security records do not include the second "w." For copies of these documents and a slightly different account of the incident, go to http://faculty.uscupstate.edu/amyers. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 129.252.226.90 (talk • contribs)
- Thanks. It seems clear that in documents he was involved with such as the NAACP lawsuit, the spelling "Woodard" is used, so I have moved the article and corrected the spelling. It's more likely that his unusual spelling was "corrected" by well-meaning journalists and census-takers (notorious mistranscribers, as genealogists know) rather than mistakenly mis-spelled so widely. --Dhartung | Talk 00:14, 7 July 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Batesburg-Leesville, South Carolina or Rock Hill.
Why would a reference to Rock Hill mean Batesburg. They are so far apart. --Gbleem 16:29, 27 July 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Deleted mistaken and unverified statements
I deleted the following:
"A passing reference to the case occurs in Chuck Berry's song "Promised Land". The singer at one point relates, "We went through Charlotte to bypass Rock Hill/We never was a minute late." When Berry wrote the song this incident was only about a decade old, and needed only the allusion to the place to remind black listeners why the narrator wanted "to bypass Rock Hill.""
The correct lyrics to Chuck Berry's "Promised Land", are "Stopped in Charlotte and bypassed Rock Hill". Anyone familiar with the song knows Berry is on a Greyhound bus in the fictitious song. A Greyhound bus driver would have a set travel plan which he wouldn't deviate from, and Greyhound has serviced Rock Hill for years.
Before I-77 was built, the Highway 21 bypass near Rock Hill was used for years by travelers to avoid driving through the city center. This is what Berry was obviously innocently referring to. There is no evidence that Berry was referring to the Batesburg incident in his 1964 song, written almost two decades after the fact.
Also, anyone familiar with SC knows that Rock Hill isn't even close to Batesburg. They're probably about a hundred miles apart as the crow flies, and roughly a two hour drive even on today's modern roads.
MindBodySoul 22:20, 17 August 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Alive?
I noticed the article mentions that Shull is still alive and well, but i fail to spot anything mentioned about Woodard's status. Anyone got any info on that? —Preceding unsigned comment added by Poposhka (talk • contribs) 18:48, 8 November 2007 (UTC)
The article has been updated since you posted. Shull died in 1997 at the age of 95. Woodard died in 1992 at the age of 73. MindBodySoul (talk) 07:13, 28 December 2007 (UTC)
Well f*** Shull. Woodard might have recieved some of that treatment in a Japanese prison camp. 68.46.202.16 (talk) 15:29, 2 June 2008 (UTC)
