What Ever Happened to Baby James?: A true story of abduction, secrecy, betrayal, and discovery by a Victim of Georgia Tann and the Tennessee Children's Home Society - Hardcover

Boehner, Don W

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1493187031 ISBN 13: 9781493187034

Publisher: Xlibris, 2014

Synopsis

It s 3am on a hot September morning in 1949 A dark sedan pulls to the rear of a home known as an unwed mothers birthing clinic in Jasper Tennessee the small quiet package is slipped past the screen door and slipped away in the dead of night never to be seen again It is a scenario replayed over and over in the 1940 s by the infamous Tennessee Children s Home Society and Ms Georgia Tann its unholy matron Stolen after birth my mother was told I was dead I was sold for 5 000 00 to my adoptive parents in Southern California Children ripped off the streets and playgrounds or simply removed from their home under color of authority the Tennessee Children s Home Society stretched their tentacles throughout Tennessee as the Black Market Baby scam grew to unimaginable proportions Doctors nurses lawyers judges social workers welfare workers and others joined on Tann s payroll Never daring to ask the question as to where all the children came from Over 5 000 children were illegally placed for adoption during Georgia Tann s reign My agency assigned number was 7 702 This is the story of James Arnold Bowman my birth name given by my mother Flossie and my life as an adoptee After being told I was adopted at age 7 it became a life of questions unanswered until I was 60 years old My adoptive parents elected to keep the details of my adoption a secret never admitting they knew who I was and the names of my parents an accidental discovery in 2008 would reveal the secrets kept for so long and begin my search for my birth family Search for my true families would take over 5 years of genealogical studies correspondence and ending with DNA testing to finally determine my true origin the Reader will be the investigator following the trail of evidence presented in the suspect s own words contained in personal and business letters and state forms filed in California and Tennessee from ill documented birth in May 1949 through sanction of the California

About this edition

• Publisher: Xlibris
• Publication date: 2014
• ISBN 10: 1493187031
• ISBN 13: 9781493187034
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 112