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Death & Taxes (1993)
I was involved....
I was working as a police officer many miles from this incident, and stood a road block for a day and a half before it was called off. Later I transferred to a nearby city, where I became friends with many of the Law Enforcement Officers who were involved in the build up to this incident.
What many do not know, months before this incident, a teletype was issued that Gordon Kahl was wanted by the US Marshall's Service. Gordon crashed his small aircraft, and was hospitalized in a nearby town. This was a county seat, the Sheriff of Foster County at that time notified the Marshall Service that Gordon was in hospital and could easily be taken into custody with no chance of gunfire. The Sheriff was told to mind his own damn business and leave Federal Law to the professionals. Had the Marshall acted on this information, this gunfight would probably never have happened. The wife of one of the Marshall's who was killed at the scene reviled that there was a political fight, and the recent election of a new president lead to the demotion of the Republican Marshall, and appointment of his deputy, who hated his boss, this also had a lot to do with the shootout, the killed Marshall had told his former deputy, now US Marshall that there would be big trouble if you try to arrest them at the meeting, or on their way home because they were known to be heavily armed when traveling to these meetings. The cop from Medina was at the meeting, and tipped off the Kahal's that there may be trouble.