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Claude Hart: “I was a very young Highway Patrolman ... sent to La Grange to ensure that the Sheriff didn’t kill Marvin Zindler or kill himself.”
In 1974, a year after The Chicken Ranch closed, Houston TV reporter Marvin Zindler returned to La Grange for a follow-up on his series that led to the brothel’s shut down. Fayette County Sheriff T.J. “Jim” Flournoy was not a fan of the flamboyant newsman. Zindler’s weeklong series that aired on ABC 13 a year before caused a lot of embarrassment for “Big Jim” and the La Grange community.
Flournoy…
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