It happened in live oak a small farming town in north florida.
Today ruby mccollum daughter loretta picture.
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.
She parked walked in the colored entrance and through the office waiting room.
To this day the actual bill has never been produced as evidence.
Sam knew about dr.
This union produced daughter loretta a light skinned child who was unmistakably adams.
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.
In july of 1951 ruby had a daughter loretta and according to ruby s testimony this was adams daughter not sam s.
Ruby mccollum murdered dr.
Adams but kind of looked the other way as he needed to keep the business afloat.
Leroy adams continues to baffle people to this day.
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.
Sam continued to love her and live with ruby.
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 amount of the bill is unknown.
Adams and ruby lives in new jersey and also declined to speak with them.
In 1952 the community of live oak fla.
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.
On the day of the shooting ruby had opened a bill addressed to her husband sam.
Leroy adams a white physician and state senator elect in his office.
Ruby testified that she owed dr.
Simpson murder trial 43 years later.
The mysterious case of ruby mccollum and the shooting of dr c.
The strange case of ruby mccollum.
On august 3 1952 ruby mccollum met dr.
Ruby s husband sam was cheating on her with some tramp school teacher.
Loretta mccollum the alleged illegitimate child of dr.
She then drove to the office of clifford leroy adams a prominent white doctor and state senator elect.
Adams and ruby lives in new jersey and also declined to speak with them.
She later admitted to shooting him four times in the chest after he wouldn t agree to leave her alone.
Was rocked by the killing of a white doctor and elected official at the hands of a married black woman.
This shooting was as noted in african america as the o j.
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.
