In the middle of the night on Nov. 5, 1960, Johnny “Battle of New Orleans” Horton’s premonition of dying at the hands of a drunk came true on a dark highway in Central Texas.
John Gale Horton grew up on the move with a family of migrant farm workers shuttling back and forth between the East Texas county of Cherokee, which they called home, and the produce fields of California, where he was born in …
