"Don Reid", a cub reporter once wrote admiringly, "can see as much
humanity in the messy murder of a shady lady as the coronation of a
queen . . . ". Reid was a strong but gentle man, wise and
compassionate, and his discerning eyes observed all the degradation
and nobility mankind is heir to in his thirty-five years of
covering the Texas prison system for the Huntsville Item and the
Associated Press. For many years he was publisher of the Item and
later in his life spent much of his time writing and making public
speeches. Reid, who died in 1981, was survived by his widow,
Frances. The late John Gurwell, who assisted Reid with the book,
was a Houston writer whose daughter Kathy supported the reprinting
of this book.
"When Don Reid published Eyewitness in 1973, the chronicle of
his conversion from a supporter of the death penalty to an ardent
opponent, the book was an immediate sensation. Perhaps never before
in the history of the American penal system has a man witnessed
more electrocutions than Reid, who as Associated Press and
Huntsville Item representative watched 189 men die in 'Old Sparky,
' as the electric chair in the Texas Department of Corrections'
death chamber was not so affectionately called. This book is a
powerful personal account of Reid's conversations with many of the
very men he later watched receive the eighteen hundred volts of
electricity from generators reserved for electrocutions and his
later, almost evangelical efforts to defend the men on Death Row
from a similar fate.
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