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Testimony of Maxine Jones, Larry Rivers, Tom Dye, and William Rogers of Special Master-appointed historical investigatory team. Special Master Hixson questions Maxine Jones on how the team was put together to investigate the history of the Rosewood massacre. Maxine Jones describes how the team, made up of academics from Florida State University, the Florida Agricultural and Mechanical University, and the University of Florida, condcuted their historical study. Jones describes the research process and the primary sources used in the study. Jones also describes obstacles the group encountered, such as a lack of archaelogical access to the Rosewood site. The historians also describe the lack of government records from the specific time period of the Rosewood massacre and their reliance on both interviews with survivors of the massacre, interviews with their descendants, and newspaper accounts from the period. The historians make comparisons to other lynchings that occurred in Florida during this time period including those that occurred in Marianna, Perry, and Occoee, Florida. James Peters, the Assistant Attorney General for the State of Florida, crossexamines all of the investigatory team members. David Colburn, another member of the historical investigatory team, was absent for this hearing.

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