She parked walked in the colored entrance and through the office waiting room.
Today ruby mccollum daughter loretta picture.
Ruby mccollum born ruby jackson august 31 1909 may 23 1992 was a wealthy married african american woman in live oak florida who is known for being arrested and convicted in 1952 for killing dr.
Ruby stated that over a period he had repeatedly forced her to submit to sex and that her youngest child loretta was fathered by.
Ruby s husband sam was cheating on her with some tramp school teacher.
In 1952 the community of live oak fla.
Sam mccollum jr the son of ruby and her husband who resided in his childhood home until his death in december 2014 declined to meet with the film crew not wanting to talk about his mother.
The strange case of ruby mccollum.
Leroy adams a white physician and state senator elect in his office.
Loretta mccollum the alleged illegitimate child of dr.
This shooting was as noted in african america as the o j.
Adams but kind of looked the other way as he needed to keep the business afloat.
Sam mccollum jr the son of ruby and her husband who resided in his childhood home until his death in december 2014 declined to meet with the film crew not wanting to talk about his mother.
Ruby mccollum murdered dr.
Adams and ruby lives in new jersey and also declined to speak with them.
This union produced daughter loretta a light skinned child who was unmistakably adams.
Simpson murder trial 43 years later.
She then drove to the office of clifford leroy adams a prominent white doctor and state senator elect.
Leroy adams a prominent white doctor and state senator elect the judge restricted her testimony but she did testify as to their sexual relationship and his paternity of her child.
The mysterious case of ruby mccollum and the shooting of dr c.
Sam knew about dr.
Leroy adams continues to baffle people to this day.
After the shooting ruby mccollum put her nickel plated smith wesson away locked up his office and walked to her 1951 two toned blue chrysler.
Adams and ruby lives in new jersey and also declined to speak with them.
The amount of the bill is unknown.
Loretta mccollum the alleged illegitimate child of dr.
She later admitted to shooting him four times in the chest after he wouldn t agree to leave her alone.
On the quiet sunday morning of august 3 1952 ruby mccollum the richest black woman in the town of live oak florida put two of her children in the backseat of her blue chrysler.
Was rocked by the killing of a white doctor and elected official at the hands of a married black woman.
Ruby testified that she owed dr.
On august 3 1952 ruby mccollum met dr.
Sam continued to love her and live with ruby.
Lewis the daughter of an unwed loretta young and clark gable was 31 before she confronted her mother and learned the truth of her upbringing.
It happened in live oak a small farming town in north florida.