Book description
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…
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1 author picked A Conspiracy of Silence as one of their favorite books. Why do they recommend it?
I love this nonfiction book because it reveals much about the history of Jackson County, Georgia, that I did not know when Floyd Hoard moved there in the 1950s.
Mike Buffington gives details of the corruption in the county, which was much deeper than Hoard knew when he continued making efforts to clean out the bootlegging and car theft rings in the area. Those criminal rings would later become known as the Georgia Dixie Mafia, the group that would order and carry out Hoard’s car bombing death in 1967.
From G's list on Southern rural crime.
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