John Wayne and the boys.
- gaymen2
- Jan 17
- 4 min read
All 28 boys stood up at once. Middle of the dining hall. Metal tables. Green walls. Fluorescent lights.A reform school where society had already decided the ending. They told John Wayne—straight to his face—that they were finished. Already ruined. Already written off.
Nothing he could say would change that. What Wayne did next would quietly break every statistic about juvenile offenders in America.And no one would hear about it for 25 years. It began with a letter in March 1961.California Department of Corrections. Juvenile Division. Boys Ranch Reform School. Wayne’s office received mountains of mail every week—fan letters, scripts, requests. Most were handled by assistants. This one wasn’t.
The warden, a man named Patterson, didn’t flatter or beg. He listed facts. Twenty-eight boys. Ages 14 to 17.Convictions: theft, assault, arson, armed robbery.
“These boys watch your Westerns,” he wrote.“They sit still. They behave. For 90 minutes, they’re calm.”
His request was simple. Would John Wayne write them a letter? Something encouraging. Something to give them hope.
Wayne read the letter three times. One sentence stayed with him:
“Society has written them off.”
He didn’t write back . He called. “I’m not sending a letter,” Wayne said. “I’m coming there.”
Two weeks later—April 14, 1961—he drove himself to the reform school. No press. No cameras. No publicity. Eighty miles on back roads.Concrete walls. Chain-link fences. Guard towers. These weren’t kids playing tough. They had already lived hard lives. The boys gathered in the dining hall, expecting another lecture.Another man who would talk at them and leave.
Then John Wayne walked in.
The room went silent. Not gradual. Instant. Wayne didn’t smile. He didn’t wave .He just looked at them. Really looked.
“I was asked to write you a letter,” he said.“I didn’t. Letters are easy. Standing here is harder. And you deserve harder.”
He told them the truth. “Society has given up on you. That part’s true. But I haven’t.”
A boy in the back crossed his arms.
“You don’t believe me,” Wayne said. “That’s fine. You shouldn’t believe anyone who tells you you’re special. You’re not special,” he continued. “You’re ordinary.” And for the first time, they listened.
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Liam punched a kid.
Before becoming an actor, Liam wanted to be a teacher and had completed two years of training, but it was all cut short when he punched one of his students. He never revealed the school where it happened, but it is believed to have been St Mary's College in Fenham, Newcastle.
When Dan Le Batard asked him "what was his worst day at work," Liam stated:
'A boy pulled a knife on me at school. He was a big kid, about 15 years old. I had to punch him, and then I got in trouble for it. There were always discipline problems; you had to calm them down before you could start teaching them.This particular boy wouldn't calm down; he wanted to disrupt the whole class. So I went up to him and asked him to leave the classroom and stay outside.The next thing he did was pull out a knife. My reaction was to punch him, something I shouldn't have done, but I felt threatened, so I punched him.
Wherever this kid is, let's hope he's learned to leave the knives in the kitchen, instead of going out and scaring people into becoming action stars.'
GOP lawmaker said trans people “harm” children. Now he's going to prison for child porn.
He was caught sharing hundreds of images of kids, including pictures of adults raping seven-year-olds.
South Carolina state Rep. RJ May (R) — an anti-LGBTQ+ politician who has accused drag queens and transgender people of harming kids — was sentenced to 17.5 years in federal prison on Wednesday after pleading guilty to five counts of distributing child sex abuse material (CSAM).
May — who was honored by the anti-LGBTQ+ “parents’ rights” group Moms for Liberty in 2023 as its Legislator of the Year — first denied the charges after investigators found evidence that he had shared hundreds of images of kids, including pictures of adults raping seven-year-olds. Judge Cameron McGowan Currie, who sentenced May, said the CSAM he shared was “more severe” than any other she had ever seen before, WIS-TV reported.
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