Hal Jake Allison died on December 7, 1941 when the battleship USS Oklahoma was bombed during the Japanese attack of Pearl Harbor. His remains will be returned to Paducah for burial on April 8th after over 80 years of being unaccounted for and classified as missing in action. For a more detailed report of his life and the process of identification, please refer to the Louisville Courier-Journal article by Berry Craig online at https://www.courier-journal.com/story/opinion/2022/04/06/hal-jake-allison-pearl-harbor-marines-remains-identified-return-paducah/7267575001/?fbclid=IwAR3klFzlCAvSLsG1Jq09xJzW5AEMiDbxEizPbrYDSSBB4JEf_jtiNqATJKY
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The Jackson Purchase Historical Society (JPHS) will meet on Saturday March 19 at 10:30 am at the Emerging Technology Center, West Kentucky Community and Technical College on Blandville Road (US 62). Our speaker will George G. Humphreys who will discuss his recent book The Fall of Kentucky’s Rock: Western Kentucky Democratic Politics since the New Deal. The publisher describes the book as (an) “in-depth study offers a new examination of a region that is often overlooked in political histories of the Bluegrass State. George G. Humphreys traces the arc of politics and the economy in western Kentucky from avid support…