Killing of Lovic M. Thomas in Georgia in 1953
Incident
Lovic M. Thomas, 41, a WWII veteran, died in 1943 while a prisoner in Atlanta, Georgia. Thomas was serving a 40-day sentence for public drunkenness and was working on a prison construction crew when he suffered head trauma that proved fatal. Thomas’s injury may have been the result of falling from a truck, or of being hit by prison foreman Sam J. Smith.
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