Decades after he was hanged for murder in Quebec, family hopes his name can finally be cleared [Video]

Jim Coffin’s mom wouldn’t buy newspapers and kept the radio station fixed on the country music channel.

She would keep her son away from the small black-and-white TV and sneak him out of the house using the back door.

For the first 11 years of Jim’s life, he had no idea reporters would stand on his lawn, waiting to ask questions about his father who was found guilty of murder in a high-profile case and subsequently executed in 1956. 

He knew his father was dead, but was told he had died in a car accident. It was only on a trip back home to Gaspé, Que., when that version of events was shattered.

“Some of the kids were teasing me about my dad dying and hanging,” said Jim, 77, who now lives in Sechelt, B.C.

“I just lost it… that’s when my mother told me what had really happened. She …