The "Quincy Five" refers to a group of five men from Quincy, Florida

Quincy, Florida

Quincy is a city in Gadsden County, Florida, United States. The population was 6,982 at the 2000 census. As of 2004, the population recorded by the U.S. Census Bureau is 6,975...

 who were charged with the murder

Murder

Murder is the unlawful killing, with malice aforethought, of another human being, and generally this state of mind distinguishes murder from other forms of unlawful homicide...

 of a deputy sheriff, but later exonerated.

1974 saw the publication of the book David Charles: The Story of the Quincy Five, authored by Jeffrey Lickson. It included extensive material based on prison interviews with David Charles, which focused on his upbringing and experiences as a musician and as a soldier in the Vietnam War

Vietnam War

The Vietnam War was a Cold War-era military conflict that occurred in Vietnam, Laos, and Cambodia from 1 November 1955 to the fall of Saigon on 30 April 1975. This war followed the First Indochina War and was fought between North Vietnam, supported by its communist allies, and the government of...

. At the time, Charles was serving a Florida prison sentence for setting a bomb at an electrical station in North Florida.

He was subsequently sentenced on Federal gun charges and released from Federal Prison on May 28, 1992.. Because David Charles was independently published in the early 1970s, it has no ISBN number.