While his friends and classmates were wearing caps and gowns and receiving high school diplomas on graduation day 1977 at Gainesville High School, David Dukes wasn’t there. He hadn’t earned the credits needed to graduate. “I was just a knucklehead to tell you the truth,” Dukes said in an telephone interview with The Times this week.
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