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A Nike Executive Told of Once Killing a Man. Here’s What He Left Out.

Larry Miller has written a book revealing that at age 16, in 1965, he murdered someone. The disclosure blindsided the family of the victim, whose name he never mentioned.

Edward David White’s sister, Barbara Mack, keeps an album with a photograph of him and newspaper clippings about his death.

PHILADELPHIA — Late at night on Sept. 30, 1965, Edward David White, 18, walked toward his family’s rowhouse in the West Philadelphia neighborhood after his shift at a suburban diner. Known as David to his family and friends, he had a son who was 8 months old, and his girlfriend was pregnant with their daughter.