Robert Elliott Burns
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Robert Elliott Burns
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Robert Elliott Burns was an American World War I veteran known for escaping from a Georgia chain gang and publishing the memoir, I Am a Fugitive from a Georgia Chain Gang!, exposing the cruelty and injustice of the chain gang system. His memoir and story was adapted into the similarly titled 1932 Oscar-nominated film I Am a Fugitive from a Chain Gang, which received nominations for Best Picture and Best Actor for star Paul Muni.
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American chain gang escapee
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Elliott_Burns
date created:
2006-09-11T23:52:28Z
date modified:
2024-09-07T21:11:39Z
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