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Washtenaw County Jail, 1978

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Washtenaw County Jail, 1978

Washtenaw County Jail, 1978 image
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Couple urges: Keep confessed killer jailed

Couple urges: Keep confessed killer jailed image
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Ann Arbor News, January 15, 1990
Day
15
Month
January
Year
1990
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Thanksgiving Dinner Is Prepared At The Washtenaw County Jail, November 1967

Thanksgiving Dinner Is Prepared At The Washtenaw County Jail, November 1967 image
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Ann Arbor News, November 23, 1967
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Jail may not be the most pleasant place to be on Thanksgiving but at least a touch of the holiday is reaching the 65 prisoners behind bars at 119 W. Ann St. today. Above, Mrs. Douglas J. Harvey, food supervisor at the jail, watches while a prisoner trusty cuts up chickens for the Thanksgiving meal.
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Thanksgiving Dinner At The Washtenaw County Jail, November 1967

Thanksgiving Dinner At The Washtenaw County Jail, November 1967 image
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Ann Arbor News, November 23, 1967
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Jail may not be the most pleasant place to be on Thanksgiving but at least a touch of the holiday is reaching the 65 prisoners behind bars at 119 W. Ann St. today. Below, Mrs. Harvey serves the meal to two trusties who, like other prisoners, dined on chicken, potatoes, vegetables and cranberry sauce. Each inmate received more than half a chicken for his meal.
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AACHM Oral History: Paul Edwin Wasson

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Paul Edwin Wasson was born September 8, 1923, in Chattanooga, Tennessee. After leaving school in the tenth grade, Mr. Wasson joined the United States Army at the beginning of World War II. In 1943, Mr. Wasson left the Army and came to Detroit. Arriving on the heels of the Detroit Riots, he decided to head west to Ypsilanti. Mr. Wasson marched alongside Martin Luther King Jr. in the 1960s; worked at the University of Michigan Hospital for seventeen years, and is most proud of his children. He encourages all young people to get an education.

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