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John M. Patterson, Segregationist Alabama Governor, Dies at 99 He welcomed the Klan and refused to integrate schools, forging a path that would be followed by Gov. George C. Wallace. Gov. John M. Patterson at his office in Montgomery, Ala., in 1961. He was the youngest governor in Alabama history, serving only one term.Credit...Horace Cort/Associated Press June 5, 2021, 7:48 p.m. ET John M. Patterson, a defiant segregationist who defeated and preceded George C. Wallace as the governor of Alabama as the South plunged into the violence and turmoil of the civil rights movement in the late 1950s ...

He belatedly said he came to regret the segregationist stances that helped him rise to power in the 1950s.

The Destin Log His swashbuckling days are over and the only treasure he’s looking to find now is fun times fishing aboard his new charter boat, the Reel Grace.   Capt. Cliff Atwell, who was Capt. Cannonball aboard the Buccaneer pirate ship for nine years in Destin, is back fishing.  “I always in my mind wanted to come back and go fishing. I love fishing,” said the 56-year-old captain. “What I love more than the fishing is I love to take people, especially the families out that have never caught fish before. I like to see them catch fish and enjoy themselves. That's t...