On May 24, 1968, William E. Powell, general manager of Capitol Chevrolet, borrowed a black Chevrolet from the dealership and invited 72-year-old W. Haynie Gourley, Capitol’s founder, to take a
The 1968 murder of W. Haynie Gourley, founder of Capitol Chevrolet, remains one of the most notorious unsolved crimes in Nashville history. In a summer of heated conflicts, assassinations and