Buford Boone entered the newspaper business in the late 1920s, but left it briefly in the early 1940s for a position as a speech writer for the Federal Bureau of Investigation in Washington, D.C.
Buford Boone
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Courtesy of W.S. Hoole Special Collections Library, The University of Alabama Libraries
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