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When Good Men Do Nothing:
The Murder of Albert Patterson
By Alan Grady
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article is a reprinting of a piece that appeared in issue
39 (Winter 1996) of Alabama Heritage, pp. 6-21.
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Abstract:
On the
night of June 18, 1954, Alabama Senator Albert Patterson left his
law office in Phenix City and headed home. Patterson, then the Democratic
nominee for state attorney general, never reached his destination.
As he approached his car, parked in a downtown alley, he was shot.
Stumbling from the alley, Patterson collapsed in front of a dress
shop and died. His son, convinced that the murder was due to his
father's involvement in running the gangsters out of Phenix City
and Russell County, embarked on a crusade to solve the mystery of
his father's death. The trials that followed did little to convict
a killer, although the publicity surrounding the case helped in a
general clean-up of Phenix City.
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