{Political_Views} History: The Battle of Athens, Tennessee

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> The video clip I'm sharing with you today is from a made-for-TV
> movie titled "An American Story" (1992).
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> It's based on the true story of the 'McMinn County War' which took
> place in Athens and Etowah, Tennessee on August 1st and 2nd 1946.
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> There had been long-standing concern in McMinn County about
> political corruption and possible election fraud. At citizen
> request, the U.S. Department of Justice had investigated
> allegations of electoral fraud in 1940, 1942, and 1944, but had
> done nothing.
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> In 1946, as Sheriff Paul Cantrell tried to steal another election,
> the residents of Athens and Etowah, including a group of G.I.'s
> having just returned home from the WWII, took up arms and refused
> to allow the fraud to continue.
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> This is a piece of Second Amendment history that I was totally
> unaware of until a subscriber at 2nd Amendment TV pointed me in its
> direction. Thanks Al...
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