Thanks for this link. Fascinating! I've wondered how often
public corruption gets into noir fiction. Some obvious
examples, like L.A. Confidential (or the movie Chinatown)
come to mind. Any others?
Lawrence
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>From: "Mark R. Harris" <
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>Subject: Re: RARA-AVIS: large-scale
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>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!
>>
>>
>>
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Bowling Green State University
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