John B. McLemore

John Brooks McLemore (born March 15, 1966 in Bibb County; died June 22, 2015 in Woodstock) was a noted horologist and the subject of a popular podcast.

McLemore was the son of Thomas and Mary Grace McLemore of Green Pond.

In 2012 McLemore contacted Chicago Public Media, producers of the program "This American Life," suggesting that they look into the possibility that a murder had been committed in Woodstock and covered up by officials. After several e-mail exchanges, producer Brian Reed visited McLemore and recorded numerous conversations with him and other people in town. Reed concluded that the murder McLemore had invited him to investigate had never occurred. In the course of conducting those interviews, however, Reed became intrigued by other aspects of McLemore's life.

McLemore died from suicide in June 2015. He is buried at the Greenpond Presbyterian Church Cemetery. Reed completed production of a 7-episode podcast entitled "S-Town" in 2017.

Examples of clocks restored by McLemore were exhibited in 2023 by the National Watch & Clock Museum in Columbia, Pennsylvania and published in a book by Philip Morris Jr and William R. Tatum

References

• Powell, Jacob (March 28, 2021) "Four years later: How ‘S-Town’ impacted an Alabama town." The Crimson White
• Thornton, William (July 18, 2023) "S-Town’s John B. McLemore clock restoration work gets spotlight in book, exhibit." AL.com