John Yancy Hilton was a 56-year-old male police officer in Haleyville, Alabama, working what began as an ordinary October evening. Around 9:00 p.m. on October 6, 1964, he was seen at a local spot called the Rebel Restaurant, then drove patrol for a while before separating from the radio operator who had been with him. Not long after, the calm of routine duty broke into urgency over the police radio�Hilton�s voice, strained and unmistakable, calling for a doctor because he had been shot, and then
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