Stories like Walker's and Wilson's offer one clue as to why the line may have been drawn at 1975: neither of them experienced or witnessed the bloody beatings in a secluded room with a modified paddle — a disturbing ritual described by the men who were at the schools in the 1960s.
"I didn't see anything," Walker said when asked about the beatings. "But as far as stuff happening, yeah. Because, you know, they showed me ... the clinic and the room off beside the clinic, where they said they take you in there and straighten you out."
"Nobody really would say anything about it," Walker continued. "Because they figured ... 'If I say something about it, I'm gonna be the next one in there.'"
Wilson said Dozier's infamous "White House" was no longer used as the venue for the beatings by the time he was there.