"The publicity Boise and Idaho has received in these 'morals cases" is the worst the city has ever had. This pandering to the low morals and minds of avaricious gossips has reached a point where it is disgraceful."

"Not until the Idaho public which is now in the dark as to the extent and frightfulness of prevailing immorality assumes responsibility for community morals can adequate clean-up be expected."
--Two Boise-area newspapers, November and December 1955


"The eventual conseqence hoped for is to rid the area of all homosexuals... It is evident no one is being spared."
--Letter written by former Boisean, November 1955

"I never heard him say anything like 'I wish I hadn't done that." Not in the slightest. The only regret he had is that he wished he could have gone further."
--Son of a man who helped initiate the prosecutions. Our interview is the first time he has ever spoken out about these events.

"Male Pervert Ring Seduces 1,000 Boys"
--Headline from Holiday, 1955 issue of a national tabloid newspaper

"I found out years later that my Dad had practiced homosexuality in the Boise community, and I guess one of the police officers who knew him came to him and said, 'We've got a warrant for your arrest.' It was a good friend of his and said 'You'd better leave town because they're coming after you.'"
--Son of a man who fled Boise to avoid prosecution. Our interview is the first time he has ever spoken out about these events.

"This is the last of the 'crime wave' group, and you will note it has not been settled yet. However, there is a change in attitude, and the most recent case was given but six months, instead of the usual heavy penalty of the earlier days."
--Letter discussing the last of the morals cases to be resolved in the courts, written nearly four years after the start of the prosecutions.

"The people of Boise tried to "stamp out" homosexuality. They discovered it couldn't be done. In the learning process, everybody suffered."
-- CBS News, 1967