The Reckoning Author:Howard Owen George James and Freeman Hawk — were unlikely friends. George was — part of soft-spoken, old-money Richmond; — Freeman came from a hardscrabble — country family mired in poverty — and marked by violence. — Fate threw them together long ago as — freshman roommates at New Hope College. — It was the late 60s, and George was — the standard-bearer for a socie... more »ty living on