Kevin Strickland Lights Mayor’s Christmas Tree

The Kansas City Globe e-Edition
Recently exonerated Kevin Strickland (center) flips the switch to light the Mayor’s Christmas Tree, Nov. 26 as Kansas City, Missouri Mayor Quinton Lucas and others look on.
Recently exonerated Kevin Strickland (center) flips the switch to light the Mayor’s Christmas Tree, Nov. 26 as Kansas City, Missouri Mayor Quinton Lucas and others look on.

If you would’ve told Kevin Strickland a year, matter of fact, a month ago, that he’d be flipping the switch for Mayor’s Christmas Tree in Kansas City, he’d probably think he was in a dream. Well, that dream came to fruition on November 26 as he flipped the switch following his exoneration on November 23, after spending 43 years in prison for a wrongful triple murder conviction. Despite growing up …