Back row l-r Ross Grimsley, Freddy Grinder, Rick Burks.
Roy Hallums Jr. Postings PHOTO OF ROY FROM 68 FRAYSER ANNUAL
Associated Press Article -Interview with Leslie Stahl from 60 Minutes--- Click Here
| WEBSITE created by Roy's daughter(Carrie Cooper) to honor her Dad |
| Some of us had a welcome home dinner for Roy and attached are some photos. We tried to simulate Roy driving the old car he had, as he was the first driver in a group of friends and he would always drive us around. The other photo you can see coach John Clayton Front row l-r Fred Edmaiston, Steve Bomar and Roy. Back row l-r Ross Grimsley, Freddy Grinder, Rick Burks. Joke was Roy was prepared for his captivity because we us to hide in the truck of our cars to go to the Frayser Drive-in, sometimes waiting a long time to get out. So he was fully trained....actually not as you can imagine, but Roy laughed...we all did we had been celebrating. Photos below>> |
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| Front row l-r Fred Edmaiston, Steve Bomar and Roy. Back row l-r Ross Grimsley, Freddy Grinder, Rick Burks. |
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My local city council member had a wonderful welcome home gift for me! I hung it with great happiness and appreciation for our miracle! God bless, Susan Hallums I will try to thank everyone that helped me one by one , but until then... thank you for the prayers, your time, your listening and being there for me. All my friends, dear friends,supported me and my family and got me through my difficult days and nights... all 311 of them. I can't tell you in words what it meant to me. Sincerest regards from the bottom of my heart , many hugs to all, Susan Hallums PS this is a photo I prayed for and it is so awesome to share it with the ones I care about! Susan Hallums |
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Roy Hallums is back in his Cordova Home
Photo by: Jason Mikeworth/Associated Press |
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All, Do not know if you have heard yet but Roy has been rescued. From
my Maurice R. Cates 9-7-05 ----------------------------------------- From Monty: ** US
civil contractor freed in Iraq ** Hey Jim, saw this today. Thought you might want to post it on class page... Troops rescue kidnapped contractor - Yahoo! News http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20050907/ts_nm/iraq_usa_contractor_dc Sherman Reed |
| Memphis Commercial Appeal June 25th | Hallums is alive, says ex-hostage From staff and wire reports June 25, 2005 Philippine officials were rebuffed when they asked Iraqi abductors to free a Cordova man held along with a Filipino hostage who was released this week, a senior diplomat said Friday. Robert Tarongoy, who returned home Thursday, told officials that his American co-worker, Roy Hallums, was still alive, but that he did not see him because he was blindfolded and bound during nearly eight months in captivity, Foreign Undersecretary Rafael Seguis said. "He said he heard him and could feel him," Seguis quoted Tarongoy as saying about Hallums, who he said was likely kept in the same room. It is the most detailed public statement about Hallums's condition since the two men were abducted in November. Hallums's family, including his daughter Amanda Hallums of Cordova, has offered a $40,000 reward for information leading to his safe return. Roy Hallums grew up in Memphis and later moved to California but still had connections to Memphis through his daughter. The men were working for the Saudi Arabian Trading and Construction Co., supplying food to the Iraqi army, when they were kidnapped in Baghdad on Nov. 1. Hallums had worked for the company for more than 10 years. Seguis said Filipino officials tried to negotiate freedom for both men, but the abductors told them to pursue only Tarongoy. |
| Susan Hallums | Feb 11th: New website freeroy.net Thank you for your concerns and prayers |
| Donnie Davenport | I remember Roy,I would like to keep up with what is going on with everone.I have changed my EM address to----(in hidden directory).The old address will be deleted soon .I pray for Roy and all the others in this fight for freedom and peace.Being a vietnam vet i can relate to this stressful time. Donnie Davenport 2-4-05 |
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Article forwarded by Gary Coughlan: By Bartholomew Sullivan Amanda Hallums of Cordova, whose father has been held by kidnappers in Iraq since Nov. 1, finally broke her silence Thursday to say she hopes a direct appeal to the hostage-takers might help. "To get my dad, I'll do anything to get my dad," the 25-year-old cosmetologist said in a telephone interview. "He'd do the same for me. He always has." Amanda Hallums said there was a strategy in her coming forward now. Her comments come just after her mother in California, Roy Hallums's ex-wife Susan, 52, stepped up efforts to get on Middle East television with her own plea. Amanda Hallums has a 7-year-old daughter, Sabrina, and she hopes the little girl's picture will melt the kidnappers' hearts. She said she talked Thursday to former Iraqi hostage Thomas Hamill of Macon, Miss., the truck driver seized last April and held for 23 days before he escaped. "He said the kidnappers would go in there every day and ask if he had babies," she explained. "Sabrina is my dad's granddaughter. She doesn't look American. She's half-Hispanic. So we're like, maybe that would help, because she's a child. "Could Sabrina and I be in the newspaper?" Sabrina, who attends Briarcrest Christian School, calls her grandfather "Da-Paw." Sabrina's parents never married, so Roy Hallums is like a father to her, Amanda Hallums said. The Commercial Appeal has contacted Amanda Hallums from time to time since mid-November as events unfolded, but had been advised by another family member that no one from the family was willing to talk. "The FBI told me not to talk. But I talked to my FBI agent (this week) and she's like, 'Amanda, it's your decision now.' And I said, 'You know what? I'm ready.' I want my dad home, unharmed and safe, and that's all I want," Amanda said. The FBI case agent declined comment Thursday. Last week, Roy Hallums, 56, appeared in an undated video with a gun to his head asking for help from his family, and from Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafy. Earlier this week, Rev. Jesse Jackson, who has been successful in obtaining the release of American hostages in the past, asked the kidnappers to release Hallums as a humanitarian gesture. Roy Hallums, a native of Paragould, Ark., and a 1968 graduate of Frayser High School, had planned to return to the Cordova home he bought last year and retire in 2005, Amanda said. He'd spent most of the last 12 years in Saudi Arabia. He was working for the Saudi Arabian Trading and Construction Co., which was supplying food to the Iraqi army, when his compound was overrun by gun-toting kidnappers. Of the six men taken hostage, only Hallums and Robert Tarongoy, 31, of the Philippines, remain captives. The State Department has said it is monitoring the situation from the U.S. Embassy in Baghdad, and maintains contact with family members. But spokesman Noel Clay says that it is longstanding policy that the U.S. does not negotiate with hostage-takers. Amanda Hallums confirmed that Roy Hallums's employer has been in discussions about a $12 million ransom demand. She is heartened by the fact that the last Filipino kidnapped before Tarongoy was released unharmed. That occurred last July after Philippine President Gloria Arroyo acceded to kidnappers' demands to withdraw the country's small military contingent to prevent the threatened beheading of a 55-year-old truck driver. The day after the 51-member force was withdrawn, Angelo de la Cruz was released to nationwide rejoicing. However, Arroyo's accession to the terrorists' demands angered U.S. officials because of this country's longstanding policy of not negotiating with kidnappers. Amanda Hallums said she gets through the day "with my belief in God." "I pray with my daughter every night," she said. She said she last talked to her father by E-mail on Oct. 31, the day before he was kidnapped. "We talked about the weather here, because it was raining, and about Sabrina -- what she was going to be for Halloween. We didn't talk about serious stuff." Her father didn't mention that he was in Baghdad, and she didn't think to ask. "I just want him to come home safe," she said quietly. "He's a true hero." |
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Anyone read in the paper or seen on tv one of our 1968 classmates being held in Iraq? Roy Hallums needs our prayers Joyce Kachenovich Wright 2-02-05 ------------------------------------------------------ we appreciate your prayers and support. We are devasted , this is just horrible beyond belief. I enjoyed your site. Kind regards for all of Roy's schoolfriends. Susan Hallums 1-31-05 ---------------------------------------- Roy was kidnapped in Iraq in November. When I heard it on Fox news yesterday and a video of him was shown, I recognized the name. Roy and I played football together at Frayser High School. I had not thought of Roy since graduation until I heard his name on the news yesterday. I thought at the time, surely it is not the Roy Hallums I knew. Turned out it was. I fear for his life and hate that he was made to denounce Bush etc. I remember him as a good boy from HS and a good ballplayer. Pray for him and his family. Tom Dunagan Hey Dear Classmates, Roy Hallums WebPage from his Daughter JIMMY, WHAT'S UP ? |
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American Held in Iraq Tells of Torture An American contract worker who was kidnapped in Iraq and held more than 10 months says in an interview that his captors kept him blindfolded and bound throughout the ordeal. Roy Hallums, 57, described his experience to "60 Minutes" reporter Lesley Stahl in a segment that will air Sunday on CBS.
On the video that was monitored in Iraq in January, Hallums
was seen with a rifle pointed at his head.
While he was missing, his ex-wife and two daughters set
up a Web site, called world leaders, raised money for information and
held candlelight vigils. The FBI has been speaking with Hallums since his return
to the United States, according to daughter Carrie Anne Cooper. She also
said that the FBI was instrumental in the investigation into his kidnapping. "I'm not totally here yet," Hallums said in the interview, "because that was my reality for 10 months." |