June 18 1954-----gangsters murder Alabama Attorney General Albert Patterson in Phenix City.
The Alabama Department of Archives and history has just obtained papers from a group of Phenix City residents who documented the illegal activities going on in town and met to discuss ways to end the gambling and prostitution. (Some of the pages are reproduced below). All of that was before Patterson's murder. His son John became the Democratic Party nominee for Attorney General and was elected, later winning election as Governor. He was a staunch segregationist.
John Patterson is still living.
He will turn 98 years old on September 27th. He lives on his family's land in Goldville.
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| Some of the papers of the group that monitored illegal activities in Phenix City. |
The crime ridden Alabama City became the subject of a movie by the same name, and this photo was taken during filming. I found it on a website that shows old movie filming locations, than and now.
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