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WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 17, 2018
BANKS COUNTY NEWS
PAGE 9A
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TYLE KILLING OF FLOYD HOAl
G
fvudir
offic
5®l. Gen. Floyd Hoard
k,IW M.nd., . |
pod hit Automobile
The 4Gyr«r old Jof(.r*o„ t .,* , b#u1
homo on Iho QrccVtors Rood ®l 7 7S
"«*' olf (hot wot koocd m dcvnlovn J.ffr-
mile» owoy Ho died • few io<ond» Ut
Hr. Hoard wax thrown Into official*
the back 'cat i f hi* sfthn jlto u%4
the tterrinf ection atop in* i
’""I)’ Varlou* other part* «,f
he car litterril the yard Win
Ion* In the fr»*nl of In* home Sheriff L
ne to fret away, wrrv »o 12 si«k*
iroken by the Mail ippsrrnilj
The Mthntor general' old the solicit
Officers have some leads "that sound
Rood to us," Capt. J. E. Carnes, who is di-
nvcsticnlion. told The Herald
Slate Public
Herald by tele-
in Atlanta tbat there
leads, “one of
•d a few times" 'he 'aid I 'l«*<red In do the tn.*k. the |
ried to brine him hark' sheriff mntinurd One rnuld
t hut only hy chance that have >< rn the dynamitr had I
One lead is rep
•£ officers out of the state
' rr> lead is brine followed
is noted including the pot
biUty that the killing *»<
with a southern area
Onr officer
ras apparent
fn'ioml and
eh npecola-
dene by a
thee officer
Willing a <o
lieitor gtneral may run at
high as $ IS POO
Anyone ony in-
formation which mlfM b«
holpfol In Iht inveUio*-
tion of >h* Hoard daath
It asked to call 347 525 S.
No Successor
To Mr. Hoard
Appointed Yet
No onr has yet been named
to succeed Floyd llaanl a.\ so
Heitor Ccncral of ibe fNed
monl Judicial Circuit
It Is understood (hat Go*
Lolcr Maddox will appoint o
nxeruM who would serve un
til an election could be held
Mr Hoard* lerm ends Dec
The governor* office lold
Id today
Made
InM
"a larc<
eohnlle
'•The
The murder of Solicitor General Floyd Hoard
of cc
lawv
been
up or tti
111 r.v,.rd
Cos
Hoard
against
lr. Ms
intend
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fy I hi
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ward fr
An Editorial
They killed Floyd Hoard.
Or was it “they"?
death A leai
I. C Perry ;
Sol Hoard's
eight stale
1 In Sheriff
has force. U
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In the meantime, the Au
gust lerm of Jackson Super
lr>r Court—which was to h«*c
lir-un ihr Aw Kill llsard was
re-ir our children . . .
. . . To ninkc it a plncc where a child
will not hove to run out in the woke of An
cnrlh-sliAtlrrinf! blo.il nnd irr the niAnfjlcd
hodv of a fnthcr who hod tried^ too much
Mike Buffington
County Reels From Shock Mimbm of Mr. H*»nfi
than Hirv family valil h* may M«r
Ilia* of Iho Sovih **
Olhar recipient* of this
honor Irsclwda jovamorw,
US. nn*i«n and Cor*
giMimtn of tk* southarn
'sons ir« iilKl-
of 'p»»»
r*d iirvld
community. slat*
from through'
to Honda, morn.n
ini IfbC of UlC A
in ,l jacks,>n Super!
They .ssem
it Ihe couoly
in Jrffrnon
I for the open
igu«l tenn c(
ir Couit
ilrd il the
k»i known of lh» honor,
fh# announcement **•
null* In a ralaaia to Tho
Mara Id.
tsayw owr »n iramcuunble
drld to lurry II aid
-like a vwunl pieccing our
hrarl Ihe <|UC»ltM lhal hangs
—
Il «as hem In hi* chO'en field f , (f
lhal Cod worked in his Me { irJj(
and we pray i*> ht» dralh " XV(V ,
Mr llssafd wa» 40 yeao of <oft
age. • native tf Koyelte Cnorv |-^|)i
tjr He allepded the Spauld
mg County school*. Georgia , t(vbjn
Military CnllcCe and was a ,
graduate of Mmrr fnivrr* ty JiJ<c
Mr Heard laught at CroA’l* |\mer
Military Oatlefe and wo* f<*>»
ball and bavkelKall CO*h »t Mrs
Sop<rton High School
He cvmplrled the I^Salle ti ns
I'stmsion Course In I
IS6> Jelfci
atrd with prope
On August 7, 1967, Floyd “Fuzzy” Hoard, the Solicitor General in rural Jackson County Ga., got into his car,
turned the ignition switch and was assassinated with 10 sticks of dynamite that had been planted under the car’s
hood the night before. For over two years, Hoard had been prosecuting local bootleg and car theft gangs and had
gained a reputation as a crusading lawman.
But there is more to the story than just Hoard’s murder. The widespread lawlessness in the community had
compromised its voice, leading to inaction by its citizens. The result was widespread public corruption and
incompetence.
As a local attorney, Hoard found himself in the middle of the Jackson County political system long before he was
murdered. From that vantage point, he had warned numerous times about how the community was turning a
blind eye to the corruption. He wrote newspaper articles and editorials calling on citizens to take the lawlessness
seriously and to take action.
But Hoard’s warnings were ignored. The result was his own murder.
In the end, five men were convicted of the assassination, but the community’s conspiracy of silence after decades
of corruption was also to blame.
This is that story.
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