“high-handed and unusual”: Leahy memorandum, clemency records, NARA-CP.
“nerve went”: White to Hoover, June 5, 1926, FBI.
“I never did”: Testimony from Ernest Burkhart’s preliminary hearing, included in U.S. v.
John Ramsey and William K. Hale, NARA-FW.
“Hale and Ramsey”: Transcript of interview with White, NMSUL.
“I looked back”: Tulsa Tribune, May 30, 1926.
“quite a tyrant”: Quoted in Gentry, J. Edgar Hoover, 117.
“PRISONER CHARGES”: Washington Post, June 8, 1926.
“ridiculous”: White to Grove, Aug. 10, 1959, NMSUL.
“fabrication from”: White to Hoover, June 8, 1926, FBI.
“I’ll meet the man”: Unpublished nonfiction account by Grove with White, NMSUL.
“the whole damn”: Kelsie Morrison testimony, in State of Oklahoma v. Morrison,
OSARM.
“bump that squaw”: Morrison’s testimony at Ernest Burkhart’s trial, later included in ibid.
“He raised her”: Ibid.
“I stayed in the car alone”: Statement by Katherine Cole, Jan. 31, 1926, NARA-FW.
“Don’t look”: My description of Burkhart changing his plea derives from trial coverage in
local papers, Grove’s nonfiction manuscript, and a 1927 letter written by Leahy and held
at the NARA-CP in Burkhart’s clemency records.
“I’m through lying”: Tulsa Daily World, June 10, 1926, and Grove’s nonfiction
manuscript.
“I wish to discharge”: Tulsa Daily World, June 10, 1926.
“I’m sick and tired”: Unpublished nonfiction account by Grove with White, NMSUL.
“I feel in my heart”: Daily Journal-Capital, June 9, 1926.
“Then your plea”: Tulsa Daily World, June 10, 1926.
“BURKHART ADMITS”: New York Times, June 10, 1926.
“was very much”: White to Hoover, June 15, 1926, FBI.
“Too much credit”: Quoted in a 1926 missive from Short to Luhring, NARA-FW.
“That put us”: Transcript of interview with White, NMSUL.
“whose mind”: Tulsa Daily World, Aug. 19, 1926.
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“The stage is set”: Tulsa Tribune, July 29, 1926.
“not testify against him”: Report by Burger, Nov. 2, 1928, FBI.
“The attitude of”: Tulsa Tribune, Aug. 21, 1926.
“It is a question”: Ibid.
“Gentlemen of the jury”: Tulsa Daily World, July 30, 1926.