There was a movie, probably in the early 50s called “The Phenix City Story”.
Phenix City, Alabama was under the control of a crime syndicate. It was wide open with all the vices. A citizens committee organized to clean up the city.
One of the members was attorney, Albert Patterson who got elected attorney general of Alabama with the intent of cleaning up the city.
Albert Patterson was murdered before he could take office but his son who had returned from WWII took up the cause. Eventually the publicity caused the governor to declare martial law. He sent in troops who dismantled the gambling machines etc and burned them in the streets.
The gang was run out of town and supposedly were the same group which Buford Pusser ran into in Tennessee.
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***were the same group which Buford Pusser ...***
I worked for a supervisor who had family in that area. He said the reason Pusser went on a rampage against the mob was...He wasn’t getting his share of the “take”.