1971 Press Photo Jesse Hill Ford & attorneys arrive at Humboldt Courthouse

Novelist Jesse Hill Ford, right, enters the courthouse in Humboldt, Tennessee to testify at his murder trial. He is accompanied by his attorneys John D. Senter, III, center, and John Kizer, left. Ford, author of "The Liberation of Lord Byron Jones," testified that he shot a young Afro-American soldier accidentally while in fear for his own son's life.

Photo is dated 1971.

Photo measures 8 x 10.25 inches.