On the night of November 27, 1963, 42-year-old off-duty New York City Police Detective Donald Rolker was riding a Lexington Avenue IRT subway train home to Brooklyn after finishing his shift with the Midtown North Squad in Manhattan. As the train neared the last stop at Nostrand and Flatbush Avenues, he found himself in a nearly empty car with four young men who had set their sights on robbing him. When three of the men demanded his money, Detective Rolker, a veteran of the force since 1946, rea
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