John Wayne Brought a Broken Watch to a 1960 Kentucky Shop — Then Left the Owner in Shock

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September 1960. Berea, Kentucky. A small clock and watch repair shop on Main Street, run for forty-three years by the same family. Across the road, a new bank annex is going up, and the bank wants the lot for parking. The owner is a sixty-seven-year-old watchmaker named Robert Patton, who has worked