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[EDMUND D. FOUNTAIN | Times]
Jerry Cooper voluntarily takes a polygraph test to try to prove that he, and by proxy the other White House Boys, are telling the truth about the horrors they endured when sentenced to the school in the 1950s and '60s.
For Their Own Good | A Times special report
Someone must be lying. Either it's Jerry Cooper and the hundreds of other men who say they were beaten bloody as boys at the Florida School for Boys in Marianna, or it's the former employees like Troy Tidwell, 84, who say it never happened. Cooper has told his story and shown his scars, but he can't stand the idea of not being believed. So he put up his own money and sat for a lie detector test. He dares his abusers to do the same.
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Ahhhh, the waxalicious scent of the Mold-A-Rama souvenir. No summer is complete without it.
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