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"Who Killed Our Son? An Account of the Circumstances and Subsequent Investigation of the Death of Harry Nicholas Rice" by Esther Christianson Rice is her account of the circumstances and subsequent investigation of the death of her son, University of Kansas student Harry Nicholas Rice, who was a victim of gunfire near the Lawrence campus on July 20, 1970.

Overview John Thomas Johnson worked as a freelance reporter, primarily for the Topeka Capital-Journal, and as a stringer for Time magazine, the Wichita Eagle-Beacon, the Kansas City Star-Times, and United Press International. This collection includes notes compiled while he was reporting in Lawrence, Kansas, 1970, and outlines, notes, etc., for a proposed book to be jointly authored with James P. Girard. A later addition to the collection contains materials related to his work for Time-Life in El...

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The bulk of the collection is photocopies of the case files for Kansas Bureau of Investigation case number 1-14958 dealing with the shooting death of Harry Nicholas Rice, a student at the University of Kansas. The collection also includes newspaper clippings, the Rice family’s correspondence with federal agencies and with lawyers concerning the case they filed against the city of Lawrence for damages in the death of their son; Douglas County, Kansas district court case number 27,359.