The trial began in February 1981, in a little courthouse in
Lakehead County. The young and ambitious District Attorney,
David McAllister, did a fine job for the prosecution. He looked
good and spoke with feeling to the jury of eight whites and four
blacks. He told them how, as a child in Greenville, he had grown
up with Jewish friends and had played with black kids too. He
told them how, one morning in 1967, he had seen the smoking
ruins of Kramer’s office. He saw the firemen finding Marvin
Kramer, then the bodies of the boys