On May 27, 1968, a black fruit picker from Arcadia, Florida, went on trial for the murder of his seven children. The judge was white; the jury was white; so was the defense attorney who volunteered his services. The State’s case rested on three key witnesses, none of whom was called to testify. Yet James Joseph Richardson was sentenced to death. Mark Lane, convinced of Richardson’s innocence, investigated the case. In 1970, his book on the trial and the investigation was published, but Richardson remained on death row. Twenty-one years after the conviction, armed with new evidence, Lane returned to Arcadia and to the case of James Joseph Richardson. Arcadia Revisited is the story of long delayed justice for a black man condemned by a white community. Hi