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4 unusual facts about Gene Miller


Barbara Jane Mackle

Mackle wrote a book (with The Miami Herald reporter Gene Miller) about her experience: 83 Hours ‘Til Dawn, published in 1971.

Gene Miller

In 1975, Miller sent the galleys to his book to then-Florida attorney general Robert Shevin and then-Florida Governor Reubin Askew.

He wrote two nonfiction books: "83 Hours Till Dawn," an account of a notorious Florida kidnapping in which the victim, Barbara Jane Mackle, was buried alive, and "Invitation to a Lynching."

Pitts and Lee v. Florida

Warren Holmes, the man who had taken Adams' confession under a lie detector, mentioned the case to his friend Gene Miller.



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Schweizer SGS 2-25

The 1956 Worlds were held in Saint-Yan, France and saw the SGS 2-25 flown in the two-place category, by Kemp Trager and Gene Miller.