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(Pt. 1) The Greatest Generation: Lt. Lester Campbell
The following is an excerpt from “The Hall County Gangster:The Greatest Generation” by John R. Ballew.December 1945. Raymond Ballew steeped out of his House of Quality appliance store. He sold radios, refr igerators and the occasional used car out of the front door and the best factory whiskey available out of the back door. He walked across the bricks on Main St. in downtown Memphis...

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