On the afternoon of April 29, 1955, on the outskirts of Quitman, Georgia, James Lee Clark, twenty-two months old, was sitting in the middle of the railroad track on Atlantic Coast Line's main line. His parents were nearby digging for fishing worms in a ditch paralleling the tracks. The weather was clear. The sun was shining. A long freight train — three diesel units and eighty-eight cars —...
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