--- In
rara-avis-l@yahoogroups.com, "Richard Moore"
<moorich@...> wrote: The fights were somewhat
> underground even then and I think the likely reason
was the
gambling
> certain to take place and to a much lesser extent
the sale of
bootleg
> liquor in what was a bone-dry county. The area
preachers were hell
on
> gambling and drinking and would have pushed for
raids.
>
> The movie "Cockfighter" was filmed in
Georgia.
According to Monte Hellman, cockfighting was illegal in
Georgia when he was shooting the film, but the authorities
turned a blind eye to it. Jimmy Carter visited one of the
real cockfighting arenas where the film was being shot, and
talked about how his family had been cockfighters for
generations.
Too bad I didn't know enough to seek
> out Willeford. I've never read his COCKFIGHTER
JOURNAL. Has it
ever
> been reprinted?
>
No. There was single tiny print run in 1989 limited to only
300 copies! Willeford makes a number of factual errors in the
journal, for example claiming that Laurie Bird "leaped out of
a window and killed herself" (whereas she actually died of a
drug overdose).
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