This collection contains the contents of a clipboard maintained by M. Jerome Diamond, law clerk to U.S. District Judge Ernest W. Gibson, chair of the board of inquiry appointed by Vermont Governor Philip H. Hoff to investigate the1968 "Irasburg Affair," a racially charged event in which the Irasburg, Vermont, home of African-American Baptist minister, David Lee Johnson, was shot at. The manner in which the police conducted their investigation was questioned by the public and the governor. The board eventually concluded that the state police acted inappropriately by delaying the shooting investigation and moving quickly with the adultery charges. The collection includes a letter and a report to Judge Ernest W. Gibson Jr. about the events written in 1968 by Dorothy M. Collins. There is also a 50-page chronology of the entire "Irasburg Affair" and a copy of the board of inquiry's published report. The collection also includes a chronology of motions and appearances in a 1968 case that appears unrelated to the other documents in the collection. A copy of Life Magazine that contains an article relating to the incident and that came with collection has been moved to the general stacks.
