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
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