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AMERICAN ORPHAN-The Life and Times of Roger Dean Kiser
These are my stories of my abuse, years that I suffered while living in a Jacksonville, Florida orphanage. The pain, suffering and mental anguish is not easy to read. These stories tell of my feelings. How I took that suffering boldly and how I tried, as best I could, to ease the pain of others. The abuse, hurt and pain I suffered as a child has never left my mind and I feel it as strongly today as I did when I was a child. Forever these memories live with me as a reminder of where I came from and who I am. If the quote above is indeed true, then why I did not turn out to be an abuser. Many who read my stories of my abusive childhood marvel at how I could become a contributing member of soci...
A Better Yesterday
Reflects on the positive memories in the author's childhood of abuse, the kind people, loving animals, and heart-warming events that comforted him, shaping him into the person he is today.
The White House Boys
Hidden far from sight, deep in the thick underbrush of the North Florida woods are the ghostly graves of more than thirty unidentified bodies, some of which are thought to be children who were beaten to death at the old Florida Industrial School for Boys at Marianna. It is suspected that many more bodies will be found in the fields and swamplands surrounding the institution. Investigations into the unmarked graves have compelled many grown men to come forward and share their stories of the abuses they endured and the atrocities they witnessed in the 1950s and 1960s at the institution. The White House Boys: An American Tragedy is the true story of the horrors recalled by Roger Dean Kiser, one of the boys incarcerated at the facility in the late fifties for the crime of being a confused, unwanted, and wayward child. In a style reminiscent of the works of Mark Twain, Kiser recollects the horrifying verbal, sexual, and physical abuse he and other innocent young boys endured at the hands of their "caretakers." Questions remain unanswered and theories abound, but Roger and the other 'White House Boys' are determined to learn the truth and see justice served.
Orphan
Roger Dean Kiser, Sr., was raised by the Children's Home Society, a Florida orphanage, and then was passed on to the Florida School for Boys at Marianna. The dramatic true account of the abuse he suffered under the care of professionals will change how people view the juvenile justice system. His childhood was filled with a mixture of physical, mental, and sexual abuse that would have left a lesser man wishing for death, yet Kiser is grateful for simply being alive. This poignant moving story is true, sharp, and motivational and it will deeply affect the hearts and minds of all who read it. Chronicling his life through the eyes of the child he once was, Roger Dean Kiser takes readers on an unforgettable journey as he recounts his childhood with a wide-eyed innocence that illustrates the resiliency of the human spirit.
I TRIED TO LOVE THE WORLD BUT IT WOULD'NT LOVE ME BACK
After being raised from the age of five in a terrible orphanage in Jacksonville. Florida then being sent off to the Florida Industrial School for Boys at Marianna, Florida and then finally to prison at the Lompoc Federal Correctional Institute in Lompoc, California; I look back and see that as a child and young boy I had a good, kind heart, in spite of the horrors I went through. Now as a seventy-seven-year-old man what happened to those wonderful, kind feelings I had for others as a child? These are the stories I have published in several books over the years. These stories tell of the kindness and consideration a young boy had for others who came into his life, while living on the streets of Jacksonville, Florida. It appeared that anything I tried to love or anything that tried to love me was always taken away. That's just the way it was for almost eighteen years.
Dreams of War
These are the war stories which (for whatever reason) haunt the dreams of orphan, Roger Dean Kiser.
THE TRUTH
"This is a rewrite of the original "the White House Bous - an American Tragedy" written by Roger Dean Kiser Sr. in 2008. There are many new added sections and newspaper articles written about these horrific and bloody tragedies which occurred at the Florida Industrial School for Boys at Marianna over the last one hundred years."
WHITE HOUSE BOYS
The forming of the organization which became known as The White House Boys was formed to expose the bloody beatings, molestations, rapes and murder of many young boys at the former Florida Industrial School for Boys at Marianna. The University of South Florida is now digging up the remains of hundreds of boys who were killed at that facility.
The Dozier School for Boys
Some true crimes reveal themselves in bits and pieces over time. One such case is the Florida School for Boys, a.k.a. the Dozier School, a place where—rather than reforming the children in their care—school officials tortured, raped, and killed them. Opened in 1900, the school closed in 2011 after a Department of Justice investigation substantiated allegations of routine beatings and killings made by about 100 survivors. Thus far, forensic anthropologist Dr. Erin Kimmerle and her team from the University of South Florida have uncovered fifty-five sets of human remains. Follow this story of institutional abuse, the brave survivors who spoke their truth, and the scientists and others who brought it to light.
Confessions of a Maddog
Once upon a time there was an innocent lad from West Texas who wrote a novel and fell in with a rabble of Texas writers as they were bridging the literary gap between J. Frank Dobie and his paisanos and the current bumper crop of Texas writers who seem to be everywhere writing about everything. This rowdy rabble of gap bridgers bonded in a sort of literary and social club they called Maddog Inc. (Motto: Doing indefinable services to mankind.) But our hero managed to live through it all anyway. This is his story. Jay Milner was part of a generation of Texas writers whose heyday lasted from the late 1950s through the 1970s. The group comprised Billie Lee Brammer, Edwin "Bud" Shrake, Gary Cartw...
