On the morning of May 17, 1974, Russell James Foote, a 28-year-old male, was driving to his job as the director of the Lafayette, Louisiana Red Cross, a role he had embraced with a dedication that promised a bright future. That future was violently extinguished when he was shot and killed in his car. The suddenness of his death left his wife, Jacqueline, a young mother of three small boys, to navigate a world irrevocably altered by a single act of violence. The couple also had a daughter.
...Read More
Account
