Memories of North Dakota gunfight still linger after 20 years

Mpls (red)Star Tribune / AP ^ | 2/9/03 | James MacPherson

[Valin]

HEATON, N.D. -- A set of footprints leads to Gordon Kahl's snow-covered grave, adorned with freshly planted plastic flowers that battle a bitter wind. It has been 20 years since Kahl was buried in Heaton, N.D., the town where he grew up and farmed. People around these parts can't forget what put him here for good.

[Valin]

Do you have a link?
Or better yet post it.

[Red Jones]

I'd be interested in reading the other side too.

[Jack Black]

There is actually a full length book on this. I read it many years ago, unfortunately I can't remember the name. Anybody else?

[Jack Black]

Bitter Harvest: Gordon Kahl and the Rise of the Posse Comitatus in the Heartland by James Corcoran

This is the book. It was re-issued in 1995 with a slightly different title like Bitter Harvest: The Rise of the Militia in the Heartland.

It's a good book. Not sympathetic to Gordon Kahl, but not written as if he was a bank robber either. His motivations and ideology are well explained. Worth a read if you can pick it up.

[Red Jones]

thanks.

[Dalite]

Death and Taxes was the name of the movie. It is being distributed privately; pulled from being released to the public.

What are the chances that Fahmy Malek was the coroner who pronounced death?

After they tried to burn him out (concrete block doesn't burn) they apparently tried to coax a confession out of him by cutting off his hands and feet. A reporter found one of the limbs after he had been buried.

There was an "In the Line of Duty" TV movie made about Kahl. They are the international film group that takes government atrocities, researches the mistakes that government made, and then make a movie atound those points, playing up how well government had performed the duties that they actually had screwed up on. They count on the court of public opinion not ever hearing the true story, and doing the admin's missionary work for them after viewing these fluff pieces of propaganda. However. "Death and Taxes" is the real deal. I am not sure, but I think Yuri Kahl may still be a political prisioner. I haven't kept up...

[JudyB1938]

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[archy]

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'preciate it!

[Alamo-Girl]

Thanks for the heads up!

[JudyB1938]

Thank you for letting me know. People with high profiles like you sometimes get pinged to death. But I can't forget the Chief, and I rest comfortably knowing you and a couple of others don't either. Thank you.

[archy]

...But I can't forget the Chief, and I rest comfortably knowing you and a couple of others don't either. Thank you.

You're very much welcome, but you're doing your part too, as by pinging me in this instance, and I hope you'll have no doubt or hesitation in doing so again when you next feel it might be worthwhile.

As for the continuing effort to resolve the matter of the murder of Chief and at least one other FReeper, see the FReep bookmarks in the lefthand column of my FReeper profile; though many of the FReepposts relating to his death and the subsequent investigation have since been pulled.

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