• Skip to main content
  • Skip to secondary navigation
  • Skip to primary sidebar

Sandhenge Publications

Jim Potter, Author

  • About the Author
  • Author Blog
    • Sign Up for Jim’s Posts
  • Blog Podcasts
  • Contact the Author
  • Read the Behind the Books Blog
    • Listen to the Audio Blog
  • Check Book Reviews
  • Sign Up to Receive Blog Posts
  • All Books

Another View of James A. Woodson

September 25, 2019 by Jim Potter 13 Comments

https://jimpotterauthor.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/09/James-A.-Woodson.mp3

· James A. Woodson: A Newspaper View  ·

Officer James A. Woodson, Hutchinson Police Department (Everybody Magazine, April, 1975)

James A. Woodson (1893-1971) achieved a lot of during his twenty-two year career as an officer on the Hutchinson Police Department (Kansas) from 1927 through 1949. Who else, anywhere, was hired as a city dog catcher and retired as a lieutenant?

Early Days

Can you imagine being a police officer walking the beat on Main Street without a vehicle, without a two-way radio, and certainly without a smart phone? That’s the way it was for Officer Woodson and other men on the Hutchinson Police Department during the early days.

Officers on foot patrol, walking their beat, received assignments from headquarters via the “Red Light System” during the late 1920s. When the supervisor at the station wanted to contact an officer, he pushed a button that activated three large red, revolving lights that were atop tall buildings, including the Landmark Hotel at 5th and Main. Beat officers would respond by walking to the nearest call box to contact the station. When the appropriate beat officer was reached, the lights were turned off. This system was abandoned in 1934 with the installation of one-way handset radios. (Conlon).

Reading through Hutchinson News articles about James A. Woodson, I eventually began thinking of the reporting as falling into one of six categories: 1) Woodson’s response to criminal activity on the streets of the city while he was an officer of the Hutchinson Police Department (including in the middle of the night when he was “roused from bed” while he was off-duty at home); 2) his regular participation on the department’s competitive pistol team; 3) his longevity on the department while others were quitting or being fired (each new mayor or new police chief had his own political agenda); 4) his long-time leadership as president of the statewide Lincoln Day Club; 5) being involved in politics, and 6) his response to racial issues as a respected civic leader who championed civil rights.

Cases or Investigations

One time on duty, Woodson stopped a suspicious car with heavily armed bank robbers. The fellows in the front seat pleaded with the guy in the back seat to shoot the officer, but the accomplice refused. Later, locked up, he reasoned: “I may be caught for bank robbery but murder won’t be added to it.”

Officer Woodson remembered an armed robbery investigation of a shoe store owner on South Main. After the detectives had been unable to develop any useful information, they turned it over to Woodson. In order to solve it, the patrolman followed leads to Wichita, Kansas City, and Chicago. He returned from the Windy City with one suspect who confessed and implicated two others.

Working as a police officer was dangerous in the Salt City. Officers were shot and killed. Bank robberies were not uncommon. Police chases involved exchanges of gunfire. During one liquor raid, Woodson had a .45 caliber gun pointed at his chest, the trigger was pulled, but the gun did not fire.

According to a newspaper article announcing Woodson’s retirement, he had even been hit and run over by a car. Somehow, Woodson was able to stop the vehicle, and learned the driver had been drinking but was not drunk. Instead of taking the driver to jail, he took him home. Only then did Woodson seek medical aid! When the chief learned of the encounter, he was upset at Woodson for not seeking help sooner.

He Thrived as a Police Officer

Officer James A. Woodson, HPD (Leland Woodson Collection)

It says a lot about James A. Woodson to have served the city and the police department for 22 years. Often, the average person doesn’t understand that a new mayor or police chief sometimes results in officers losing their jobs, even within a civil service system. It’s called politics. If there was a competitive race for mayor and a police officer took sides and bet on the losing man, then the newly elected mayor might consider that officer’s loyalty as suspect. Woodson didn’t just survive, he thrived at his work—whether as the department’s Spanish interpreter or as a crack shot on the competition pistol team. He was an integral part of the police force, rewarded with trust and promotions.  

Officer Woodson outlasted at least ten different appointed police chiefs, some interim. Chief George M. Duckworth hired the former dog catcher and Chief Ray Hensley complimented the retiring lieutenant.

One piece of advice that Lt. Woodson gave to new officers, who were considering making a career out of the job, was the importance of looking at the big picture. He said: “Learn to be a policeman and not just a cop. There is a difference. Make arrests, but make and keep your friends. They are your eyes and ears, your source of information.”

Woodson for Sheriff in 1956

In 1956, after police retirement, Woodson chose to throw his hat in the ring for the position of Reno County Sheriff. One of his political ads stated: “Qualified to handle the civil and criminal responsibilities of your office. Courteously, Honestly, and Efficiently.” He was one of seven candidates in the Republican primary. Despite the opposition—an incumbent, two former sheriffs, two former undersheriffs, and a deputy—James A. “Jim” Woodson finished in the middle of the pack.

To me, this is an example of how sometimes a person can make a difference and be a winner by participating even when others may perceive the contest as having been lost. Jim Woodson continued to open doors to all possibilities, including for people of color.

Lincoln Day Club and Emancipation Day

For decades, every summer, when Emancipation Day was celebrated in Hutchinson, James Woodson was quoted in the Hutchinson News or Herald. Often it was noted that Woodson, from Hutchinson, was re-elected state president of the Lincoln Day Club.

In 1954, after a committee meeting, President Woodson said: “the purpose of the meeting was to promote understanding among the Negro people of events to come, proper behavior in the light of recent Supreme Court rulings, better race relations, and to discuss conditions in general as they affect minority races.”

Republican Leader

Woodson was a longtime leader in the Reno County Republican Party. He was a committeeman in the first precinct, served as treasurer of the Republican Central Committee, attended the National Convention in San Francisco as a delegate for Eisenhower, and helped Ike get elected in 1957. He also aided Bob Dole in his election.

Prejudice and Social Strife in the ‘60s

I found one newspaper article that revealed how upset Woodson could get at the system, in this case “police state tactics.” In 1966, as a landlord, he had loaned out building space to a church youth group. The teenagers were preparing it for a party one night when they were interrupted. After the police busted open the back door when the front door was unlocked, the officers allegedly humiliated and nearly scared the young people to death. When Woodson complained to the city commission, he objected to “Bull Connor” tactics being used on a group of Negro youths during the unsuccessful liquor raid.

“It’s the old story of if you’re white you’re right, if you’re brown stick around, but if you’re black get back,” Woodson said.

“It’s your responsibility to eliminate the inequities in our community,” Woodson told the commission. “People in your race and mine are disgusted with the present state of affairs. Are we living in a police state? We aren’t being treated fairly,” he concluded.

In 1967, during the racially tense period in the United States when Detroit and other urban cities were burning and people were dying, retired Lt. Woodson was asked to evaluate the local climate in Hutchinson.

“These riots aren’t something that just ‘happen’,” said Woodson. “Take a background of substandard housing, substandard wages, and substandard education, plus a background history of 100 years of suffering from the worst type of prejudice . . . and you have the ingredients to create a monster!”

Woodson told the reporter that Dr. Martin Luther King’s efforts had shed some light on the problem created by the “social monster,” while Stokely Carmichael, who the reporter labeled a “Negro agitator,” was viewed by Woodson as unhelpful in solving the problem. “His [Carmichael’s] extremist philosophy of what the American Negro should be is definitely not conducive to a better understanding between Negro and white,” Woodson said.

Even though Woodson retired as a lieutenant, he offered himself as an example of being held back due to the color of his skin. “. . . I had three different mayors tell me, ‘Woodson, if you weren’t a Negro, you would be our next captain’.”

Being qualified but not selected, was something Woodson couldn’t forget.

Western Front, 1971

Without a doubt, the most moving newspaper article I read about James Woodson was written by his son-in-law, Dallas Crable, describing the deep respect and love he felt for his recently departed friend, who was like a father to him.

Collection of the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History & Culture. Placard carried by Arthur J. Schmidt in 1968 Memphis March. Gift of J. “Bud” Schmidt. No known copyright restrictions.

Crable described Woodson as “a man of honesty, integrity, and plain guts. Here was a man that constantly, in the face of insurmountable odds, placed himself on the firing line. He called the shots as he saw them, gave no quarter and asked no quarter; he was a man. Yet, he was also a man of compassion.”

He was a Man

When James A. Woodson died May 20, 1971, from a fall, Hutchinson lost a pillar of its community. As noted above, Crable, reportedly Hutchinson’s first black city commissioner, concluded: “Mr. Woodson thought like a man; he acted like a man; and above all, he was his own man.”

Until next time, happy writing and reading!

 

Credit goes to Roger L. Conlon, Jr. (1948-2001), former police officer and deputy, for his extensive historical research on the Hutchinson Police Department. In 1977 he printed/published A CHRONOLOGICAL HISTORY OF THE HUTCHINSON POLICE DEPARTMENT.

Share this:

  • Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window)
  • Click to share on Twitter (Opens in new window)
  • Click to share on Pinterest (Opens in new window)
  • Click to share on LinkedIn (Opens in new window)
  • Click to email this to a friend (Opens in new window)

Filed Under: Blog posts Tagged With: Arthur J. Schmidt, Chief George M. Duckworth, Chief Ray Hensley, Dallas Crable, Emancipation Day, Everybody Magazine, Hutchinson News, Hutchinson Police Department, James A. Woodson, Jim Potter, Jim Woodson, Jr., Leland Woodson, Lincoln Day Club, Martin Luther King, Red Light System, Republican National Convention, Roger Conlon, Smithsonian National Museum of African American History & Culture, Woodson for Sheriff

Sign Up for the Blog

You will never have to check this site for the latest blog post, and you’ll get the latest and the greatest first! You will receive a confirmation email that you must respond to in order to be officially subscribed. Check Junk and Spam folders as needed!

Reader Interactions

Comments

  1. AvatarAlex says

    September 25, 2019 at 8:17 am

    Ken Burns could not have presented a better insight into Mr. Woodson!
    Well done!

    Reply
    • Jim PotterJim Potter says

      September 25, 2019 at 8:52 am

      Thanks! You can tell that Ken Burns loves what he does. He gets to explore the world and then share what he’s created. What could be better than that?

      Reply
  2. AvatarJerry Fanning says

    September 25, 2019 at 11:43 am

    That about made me cry ! Why can’t we have more people like him to be in government, the higher up the better? They understand what the world Should be like. Everybody equal in Everything. Not just lip-service like we get all the time.
    Jim, you could write a whooping historical novel!!!!!! You know that? I enjoy your stories so much.
    See you at the Convention, I hope. Look for my writer’s Prompts in the little fishing pole booklets I’ll hand to each table for the banquet. The 2 with stars on them are from my own writing. Shows my style of writing, I think. Until then.

    Reply
    • Jim PotterJim Potter says

      September 25, 2019 at 12:55 pm

      You’re so kind, Jerry! Actually, at this point in my career, I enjoy blogging more than writing a book. But, anything can happen. I look forward to a conversation with you at the convention.

      Reply
  3. AvatarNancy Julien Kopp says

    September 25, 2019 at 1:38 pm

    James Woodson’s family will treasure this picture you have painted so well. Excellent! Looking forward to seeing you at convention and being on the blogging panel together.

    Reply
    • Jim PotterJim Potter says

      September 25, 2019 at 2:05 pm

      Nancy, thank you so much! Yes, I’m looking forward to our few minutes together on the panel. Hope we also find time to talk. See you soon, Jim

      Reply
  4. AvatarH.B. Berlow says

    September 25, 2019 at 7:53 pm

    I truly look forward to your blog posts with these absolutely amazing pieces of real life Americana. Schools could learn from you.

    Reply
    • Jim PotterJim Potter says

      September 25, 2019 at 8:38 pm

      H.B, thank for the comment. I keep thinking that with the audio blog/podcast on the same page as the written word, the stories could be used to help people to improve their comprehension levels, ex. English as a Second Language (ESL). I even like reading them as I listen to the audio. By including photos, they help enhance the story, but I never want the story to depend on a photo to understand the message. Thanks again.

      Reply
  5. AvatarEllen says

    September 25, 2019 at 8:40 pm

    Thanks, Jim. Great read. Ellen

    Reply
  6. AvatarAnde says

    September 25, 2019 at 8:42 pm

    Thanks for writing about the life of this inspiring man.

    Reply
    • Jim PotterJim Potter says

      September 25, 2019 at 8:43 pm

      You’re welcome, Ande. Interviewing, researching, and writing is a real joy, especially when I get to meet the likes of a James A. Woodson.

      Reply
  7. AvatarSandy says

    September 25, 2019 at 10:32 pm

    This is great! I learned a lot from this part! I wish I had known him. Thanks again from the family for highlighting his life. Sandy

    Reply
    • Jim PotterJim Potter says

      September 25, 2019 at 10:35 pm

      It sure was nice to get two different points of view highlighting his life–family & media. It was a honor for me to share. Yes, meeting him would have been something to remember.

      Reply

Leave a Reply Cancel reply

Your email address will not be published. Required fields are marked *

This site uses Akismet to reduce spam. Learn how your comment data is processed.

Primary Sidebar

Jim Potter, Author

author

Recent Blog Posts

  • Reno County: Civil War Stories April 14, 2021
  • Sheriffs of Reno County: Randy Henderson April 7, 2021
  • Sheriffs of Reno County: Larry Leslie March 31, 2021
  • Sheriffs of Reno County: Jim Fountain March 24, 2021
  • Sheriffs of Reno County: Charles Heidebrecht March 17, 2021

If you prefer to listen . . .

If you prefer to listen to my blog posts, you can do so … List of podcasts about Podcasts

Follow Jim on Facebook

Follow Jim on Facebook

Post Archives

  • April 2021
  • March 2021
  • February 2021
  • January 2021
  • December 2020
  • November 2020
  • October 2020
  • September 2020
  • August 2020
  • July 2020
  • June 2020
  • May 2020
  • April 2020
  • March 2020
  • February 2020
  • January 2020
  • December 2019
  • November 2019
  • October 2019
  • September 2019
  • August 2019
  • July 2019
  • June 2019
  • May 2019
  • April 2019
  • March 2019
  • February 2019
  • January 2019
  • December 2018
  • November 2018
  • October 2018
  • September 2018
  • August 2018
  • July 2018
  • June 2018
  • May 2018
  • April 2018
  • March 2018
  • February 2018
  • January 2018
  • December 2017
  • November 2017
  • October 2017
  • September 2017
  • August 2017
  • July 2017
  • June 2017

What People Are Saying

Sean McArdle

Retired police officer Potter’s novel centres on very disparate characters and through the tried and tested means of gradually introducing each one, builds a sense of anticipation about what is going to happen to them. This often used methodology is not easy to do well but is superbly handled by Potter who knows how to give enough detail to bring the characters to life, yet not too much so as to slow down the pace of the developing story. A climactic event affects the main characters and it is at this point Potter’s deep knowledge of people and police procedures really hits home; page by page we read how a seemingly simple, though terrible occurrence, can have huge consequences. To Potter’s credit the story does not have a completely conclusive or simplistic ending. Instead it leaves the reader thinking about how the events of a single minute can affect lives forever. I would whole heartedly recommend this book not as a crime novel or even as a novel about crime but as a beautiful and positive affirmation about what it is to be human and how ultimately it is relationships which matter more than events.

Sean McArdle, Winchester, England

Sandhenge Publications
5
2017-11-17T18:24:22-06:00

Sean McArdle, Winchester, England

Retired police officer Potter’s novel centres on very disparate characters and through the tried and tested means of gradually introducing each one, builds a sense of anticipation about what is going to happen to them. This often used methodology is not easy to do well but is superbly handled by Potter who knows how to give enough detail to bring the characters to life, yet not too much so as to slow down the pace of the developing story. A climactic event affects the main characters and it is at this point Potter’s deep knowledge of people and police procedures really hits home; page by page we read how a seemingly simple, though terrible occurrence, can have huge consequences. To Potter’s credit the story does not have a completely conclusive or simplistic ending. Instead it leaves the reader thinking about how the events of a single minute can affect lives forever. I would whole heartedly recommend this book not as a crime novel or even as a novel about crime but as a beautiful and positive affirmation about what it is to be human and how ultimately it is relationships which matter more than events.
https://jimpotterauthor.com/testimonials/sean-mcardle/

Rebecca

Taking Back the Bullet is an emotional, yet captivating novel. Jim Potter does a superb job of intertwining each character and putting their individual identities on display. All law enforcement storylines are a true reflection of Potter’s years as a police officer because they are realistic and relatable. This is a book I highly recommend.

Rebecca from Proud Police Wife

Sandhenge Publications
5
2017-11-17T11:41:14-06:00

Rebecca from Proud Police Wife

Taking Back the Bullet is an emotional, yet captivating novel. Jim Potter does a superb job of intertwining each character and putting their individual identities on display. All law enforcement storylines are a true reflection of Potter’s years as a police officer because they are realistic and relatable. This is a book I highly recommend.
https://jimpotterauthor.com/testimonials/rebecca/

Wynona Winn

Three main characters walk different paths but with the same destination – each coping with his or her self-discovery, self-identity, and self-realization. Much like their earlier counterparts – Huck Finn and Holden Caulfield – their journeys are often joyous, often tedious and often tragic.

Wynona Winn, PhD, retired school superintendent

Sandhenge Publications
5
2017-11-17T18:18:33-06:00

Wynona Winn, PhD, retired school superintendent

Three main characters walk different paths but with the same destination – each coping with his or her self-discovery, self-identity, and self-realization. Much like their earlier counterparts – Huck Finn and Holden Caulfield – their journeys are often joyous, often tedious and often tragic.
https://jimpotterauthor.com/testimonials/wynona-winn/

Denise Low

Jim Potter is a cop, retired, but he brings deep understanding of this job to his novel Taking Back the Bullet: Trajectories of Self-Discovery. This layered novel has literary dimensions as characters explore crisis situations. Congratulations to this fine writer for his debut novel.

Denise Low, author of Jackalope (Red Mountain Press)

Sandhenge Publications
5
2017-11-17T11:31:21-06:00

Denise Low, author of Jackalope (Red Mountain Press)

Jim Potter is a cop, retired, but he brings deep understanding of this job to his novel Taking Back the Bullet: Trajectories of Self-Discovery. This layered novel has literary dimensions as characters explore crisis situations. Congratulations to this fine writer for his debut novel.
https://jimpotterauthor.com/testimonials/denise-low/

Larry Kruckman

Jim Potter displays ethnographic skills in Taking Back the Bullet: Trajectories of Self-Discovery, creating vivid scenes and fascinating characters. The Greeks had a word for subcultures and people’s behavior: ‘ethos,’ or ‘ways of being.’ In colorful, sometimes marvelous detail, this novel captures various people and settings . . . the ethos of rural Kansas: a jail, art fair, powwow, rehab center, courtroom, albinos, and even someone in the throes of postpartum depression. So detailed are the descriptions that they must be drawn from the author’s personal experience. Besides the artfully created characters such as the struggling jailer and husband Tom Jennings, local artist Jesse Thomas, and Native American Joe Morningcloud, there is a tight story line that grabs your attention and won’t let go. Human tensions, love, conflict, joys and sorrows are all there. Magically, all the many pieces come together in a final crescendo, giving hope that even when we find ourselves in big trouble we can survive. This is a novel I highly recommend!

Larry Kruckman, Anthropologist

Sandhenge Publications
5
2017-11-17T18:27:15-06:00

Larry Kruckman, Anthropologist

Jim Potter displays ethnographic skills in Taking Back the Bullet: Trajectories of Self-Discovery, creating vivid scenes and fascinating characters. The Greeks had a word for subcultures and people’s behavior: ‘ethos,’ or ‘ways of being.’ In colorful, sometimes marvelous detail, this novel captures various people and settings . . . the ethos of rural Kansas: a jail, art fair, powwow, rehab center, courtroom, albinos, and even someone in the throes of postpartum depression. So detailed are the descriptions that they must be drawn from the author’s personal experience. Besides the artfully created characters such as the struggling jailer and husband Tom Jennings, local artist Jesse Thomas, and Native American Joe Morningcloud, there is a tight story line that grabs your attention and won’t let go. Human tensions, love, conflict, joys and sorrows are all there. Magically, all the many pieces come together in a final crescendo, giving hope that even when we find ourselves in big trouble we can survive. This is a novel I highly recommend!
https://jimpotterauthor.com/testimonials/larry-kruckman/

Deb Theis

Jim Potter has done it again! After his book, Cop in the Classroom: Lessons I’ve Learned, Tales I’ve Told, Jim has written another great work. In Taking Back the Bullet: Trajectories of Self-Discovery, Jim Potter takes us on an insightful journey into the lives and relationships of numerous characters. Jim is such a talented storyteller that the reader quickly becomes immersed and has a ‘bonding experience’ with each of the characters, feeling their joy, fear, passion and pain. Jim’s novel speaks to the empowerment of persistence with the characters as they work through their trials. As a therapist, I appreciated the heartfelt struggles from each of the characters and their diversity. I also found value in the novel’s understanding of society’s misunderstanding of both mental health and other conditions in which people struggle. The novel contains rich exposure to various realities that many of us do not know about . . . but should. When I finished this captivating novel, I was wanting to read the sequel! It was an honor and a wonderful, mesmerizing experience reading this book. Congratulations, Jim!

Deb Theis, LSCSW, clinical therapist/hypnotherapist

Sandhenge Publications
5
2017-11-17T18:20:29-06:00

Deb Theis, LSCSW, clinical therapist/hypnotherapist

Jim Potter has done it again! After his book, Cop in the Classroom: Lessons I’ve Learned, Tales I’ve Told, Jim has written another great work. In Taking Back the Bullet: Trajectories of Self-Discovery, Jim Potter takes us on an insightful journey into the lives and relationships of numerous characters. Jim is such a talented storyteller that the reader quickly becomes immersed and has a ‘bonding experience’ with each of the characters, feeling their joy, fear, passion and pain. Jim’s novel speaks to the empowerment of persistence with the characters as they work through their trials. As a therapist, I appreciated the heartfelt struggles from each of the characters and their diversity. I also found value in the novel’s understanding of society’s misunderstanding of both mental health and other conditions in which people struggle. The novel contains rich exposure to various realities that many of us do not know about . . . but should. When I finished this captivating novel, I was wanting to read the sequel! It was an honor and a wonderful, mesmerizing experience reading this book. Congratulations, Jim!
https://jimpotterauthor.com/testimonials/deb-theis/

John & Cindy Morrill

I enjoyed your book. When I am looking for a new read, I always read the first page, last page and choose a random page somewhere in the middle before I decide to buy it. You had me on all three pages. I also like reading a book where you can relate to the characters and the settings in which they live and work. It makes a story more realistic if you can say, I am familiar with the area; I know where that town is or I have traveled that street. It was easy to relate to the characters. In one way or another, I have met them all somewhere in my journeys

John & Cindy Morrill, 20 years Air Force retired, 17 years law enforcement

Sandhenge Publications
5
2017-11-17T18:14:56-06:00

John & Cindy Morrill, 20 years Air Force retired, 17 years law enforcement

I enjoyed your book. When I am looking for a new read, I always read the first page, last page and choose a random page somewhere in the middle before I decide to buy it. You had me on all three pages. I also like reading a book where you can relate to the characters and the settings in which they live and work. It makes a story more realistic if you can say, I am familiar with the area; I know where that town is or I have traveled that street. It was easy to relate to the characters. In one way or another, I have met them all somewhere in my journeys
https://jimpotterauthor.com/testimonials/john-cindy-morrill/

Morgan Penner

Taking Back the Bullet is a novel that provides the reader with a window into the world of law enforcement. As the novel unfolds, the reader is able to see how split-second decisions alter the lives of the main characters in the story. Taking Back the Bullet also explores how humanity is impacted by mental illness. One of my favorite quotes from Taking Back the Bullet is “We’re all just a critical moment from being disabled or mentally ill, and we don’t want to think about it.” The novel also provides the reader an opportunity to gain a better understanding of how mental illness impacts the individuals, their family, friends, and society. Taking Back the Bullet is a story of forgiveness and overcoming life’s struggles and tragedies.

Morgan Penner

Sandhenge Publications
5
2017-11-17T18:25:35-06:00

Morgan Penner

Taking Back the Bullet is a novel that provides the reader with a window into the world of law enforcement. As the novel unfolds, the reader is able to see how split-second decisions alter the lives of the main characters in the story. Taking Back the Bullet also explores how humanity is impacted by mental illness. One of my favorite quotes from Taking Back the Bullet is “We’re all just a critical moment from being disabled or mentally ill, and we don’t want to think about it.” The novel also provides the reader an opportunity to gain a better understanding of how mental illness impacts the individuals, their family, friends, and society. Taking Back the Bullet is a story of forgiveness and overcoming life’s struggles and tragedies.
https://jimpotterauthor.com/testimonials/morgan-penner/

Dennis Perrin

Masterful storytelling, exquisite character development, so real as to HURT and HOPE, a real page turner. Begs for stage, screenwriters, and visual episodic development a.k.a. TV series . . . Thanks Jim Potter for telling it like it is AND providing us visions of how it could be. Well done!

Dennis Perrin, educator

Sandhenge Publications
5
2017-11-17T11:44:55-06:00

Dennis Perrin, educator

Masterful storytelling, exquisite character development, so real as to HURT and HOPE, a real page turner. Begs for stage, screenwriters, and visual episodic development a.k.a. TV series . . . Thanks Jim Potter for telling it like it is AND providing us visions of how it could be. Well done!
https://jimpotterauthor.com/testimonials/dennis-perrin/

Rebecca Schillaci

As a former law enforcement officer, I found the story very relatable as it details the life of a law enforcement officer and the struggles some face throughout their careers. . . Taking Back the Bullet is a journey of understanding, respect, and forgiveness . . .

Rebecca Schillaci

Sandhenge Publications
5
2017-11-17T11:46:40-06:00

Rebecca Schillaci

As a former law enforcement officer, I found the story very relatable as it details the life of a law enforcement officer and the struggles some face throughout their careers. . . Taking Back the Bullet is a journey of understanding, respect, and forgiveness . . .
https://jimpotterauthor.com/testimonials/rebecca-schillaci/

Sheryl Remar

I enjoyed the different stories of this book because Tom, James, and Suanna, the three main characters, represent in their own way the different struggles with themselves and society’s idea of what is normal.

Sheryl Remar

Sandhenge Publications
5
2017-11-17T11:47:46-06:00

Sheryl Remar

I enjoyed the different stories of this book because Tom, James, and Suanna, the three main characters, represent in their own way the different struggles with themselves and society’s idea of what is normal.
https://jimpotterauthor.com/testimonials/sheryl-remar/

Jane Holzrichter

I finished it last night around midnight. What a great piece of work. It kept me intrigued all the way to the end.

Jane Holzrichter

Sandhenge Publications
5
2017-11-17T18:21:41-06:00

Jane Holzrichter

I finished it last night around midnight. What a great piece of work. It kept me intrigued all the way to the end.
https://jimpotterauthor.com/testimonials/jane-holzrichter/

Steve Becker

I’m impressed. It was an excellent read. . . . I hope you continue with more projects in the future.

Steve Becker

Sandhenge Publications
5
2017-11-17T18:26:21-06:00

Steve Becker

I’m impressed. It was an excellent read. . . . I hope you continue with more projects in the future.
https://jimpotterauthor.com/testimonials/steve-becker/

Diana Dester

Good story line, building the characters along the way. Great job!

Diana Dester

Sandhenge Publications
5
2017-11-17T18:19:23-06:00

Diana Dester

Good story line, building the characters along the way. Great job!
https://jimpotterauthor.com/testimonials/diana-dester/

Karleen Wilson-Moon

Terrific story relevant to today’s social issues . . . well written . . . likable characters . . . insightful perspective from an insider in law enforcement.

Karleen Wilson-Moon

Sandhenge Publications
5
2017-11-17T18:44:26-06:00

Karleen Wilson-Moon

Terrific story relevant to today’s social issues . . . well written . . . likable characters . . . insightful perspective from an insider in law enforcement.
https://jimpotterauthor.com/testimonials/karleen-wilson-moon/

Judy Hawk

. . . I was impressed with the Native American information as well as the depth of character development . . . .

Judy Hawk

Sandhenge Publications
5
2017-11-17T18:15:48-06:00

Judy Hawk

. . . I was impressed with the Native American information as well as the depth of character development . . . .
https://jimpotterauthor.com/testimonials/judy-hawk/
16
Sandhenge Publications

Copyright © 2021 Sandhenge Publications · Website by Rosemary Miller

loading Cancel
Post was not sent - check your email addresses!
Email check failed, please try again
Sorry, your blog cannot share posts by email.