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It had been a long year for Jock Yablonsky, maybe the longest year of his life.

And it had come at the end of a long and tumultuous decade.

It was November of 1969.

Jock was tired, so he did what he always did at 11 p.m.

He sat back in his recliner, closed most of the curtains in his Pennsylvania farmhouse,

and he turned on the evening news.

This is Barry Burns in the KDKA television news role.

Jock was so immersed in the news that he didn't notice the man lurking outside his house,

the man who had been sent to kill him, a man named Paul Gilly.

He'd been hunting Jock Yablonski for weeks by then, And now he'd made his way to Jock's home, isolated in rural Clarksville, Pennsylvania.

This is from an interview I did a few years ago with Paul.

I drove into Clarksville, a little town there where he lived.

I parked up on that hill just above his house, just up on the hill above it.

Holding a World War II rifle, the hit men crept up Jock's porch, watching him through the window,

taking in his mark.

Jock looked exactly as he'd been described to Paul.

He was short, heavy set, and big bushy eyebrows.

And he was gray-headed, mostly gray.

The two men had never met.

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