Bernard E. Harcourt collection on Doyle Lee Hamm, 1919-2023

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Series III: Hamm Family Mitigation Records

(Containing documents, records, recordings conducted during the mitigation investigation of Doyle Lee Hamm's Alabama death penalty case)



Box 3 VHS-C tape of interview of William O. Foster in Tuscumbia, AL by Gaye Nease (2 tapes), 1 September 1993


Box 3 DVD copies of VHS-C tape of interview of William O. Foster in Tuscumbia, AL by Gaye Nease (2 DVDs), 1 September 1993


Box 3 Folder with Gaye Nease's chronology of the Hamm family


Box 3 Folder with myriad interviews of all the family members conducted during the mitigation investigation

(Including 6/26/91 interview with Ruthie Murphy by BEH and Susan Craighead; 6/11/91 interview with Doyle Lee Hamm by BEH; 6/25/91 interview with Linda Hamm by BEH; etc. Over 3 dozen interview records)


Box 3 Folder with memos memorializing all the document retrieval, 1991-1995


Box 3 Folder with signed family release forms


Box 3 Folder with original marriage certificate of Major Edward Hamm and Eula Mae Howell, 24 September 1938


Box 3 Folder with Major Edward Hamm original honorable discharge papers from the U.S. Army, 12 January 1946


Box 3 Folder with family birth certificates


Box 3 Two folders with family death certificates


Box 3 Folder with Hamm family Social Security benefits documents


Box 3 Folders with family divorces (Danny, David Leo, Jimmy Harold, Horace, Roy Edward)


Box 3 Folders with family services documents (Medicaid, Veterans Administration, food stamps, IRS


Box 3 Folder with family civil cases, court documents


Box 3 Folder with some news clippings from Mrs. Hamm's papers


Box 3 Folder with family criminal records from Mrs. Hamm's papers


Folders with criminal records of:


Box 3 Danny Wayne Hamm


Box 3 Major O'Neal Hamm


Box 3 David Leo Hamm


Box 3 Roy Edward Hamm


Box 3 Horace Wade Hamm


Box 3 James Edward Hamm


Box 3 Major Edward Hamm


Box 3 Jimmy Harold Hamm


Box 3 Miscellanous all brothers


Box 3 Folder with medical records of Eula Mae Hamm


Box 3 Folder with medical records of Linda Hamm


Box 3 Two Folders of medical records of Bobby Stanfield (Ruthie Hamm's son)


Box 3 Folder with David Hamm's medical drug addiction records


Box 3 Folder with information on family medical records from Mrs. Hamm's papers