mountains. life is simple here. the main street has only three traffic lights. and most of the town s 750 residents know or do business with each other. alvin ridley was a well-known figure in ringgold. at one time, he ran the town s only television repair shop. in 1966, he married 18-year-old virginia hickey and almost immediately virginia cut off all contact with her family. alvin said it was because her family was too intrusive. virginia s sister says alvin forced virginia to stay away from her family. i sent them an invitation to every wedding, every death, every birthing in our family to no avail. nothing was ever acknowledged. nothing. my father s death. my father went to his grave after making every effort
new york city that jackson s medal was stolen from this room at the waldorf-astoria hotel. i had left my [bleep] medal in it blocks on the bed in its box on the bed in the room, and when i went back, that was the first thing looked to. jackson learn his medal was on display in a television repair shop in shares, the own over he shop says he bought it for $300 at a gun show and promised he would give it back to jackson. this is what was sent back to jackson. not in his met useful honor but medal of honor, but a fake. shockly insisted he did the right michigan thing, and the fbi now thinks shockley may have never had the real medal and it s still out there.