Sure it has. Phenix City, Alabama, in the mid-1950s. Martial
law, National Guard, 750 indictments, the works.
http://www.alabamatv.org/phenixcity/
Be sure to click through to pages 2 and 3 of this account.
The documentary referred to, Up from the Ashes: The Rebirth
of Phenix City, sounds interesting.
This sequence of events was memorialized in Phil Karlson's
1955 pseudo-documentary film The Phenix City Story.
Best, Mark Harris
On 11/2/07, Curt Purcell <
curtpurcell@hotmail.com> wrote:
>
> At the end of Red Harvest, the Op declares that
Personville is so
> hopelessly corrupt that the only viable option is to
request national
> guard troops from the governor and put the town
under martial law
> while rebuilding the whole legal/justice system from
scratch. Has
> something like that ever actually happened to a US
city, specifically
> due to corruption? What's the largest-scale state or
federal
> intervention into local corruption on record, and
what came of it?
> Thanks!
>
>
>
-- Mark R. Harris 2122 W. Russet Court #8 Appleton WI 54914 (920) 470-9855 brokerharris@gmail.com
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