[driftless2]

There was a segment on 60 Minutes about the incident. I remember reading accounts of the story in various leftist rags at the time. If you read the leftist rags, the citizens were all Klan members and Ken Rex was just a decent sort of a chap, a little rough around the edges, who people got all wrong. Until his civil rights were violently taken away by the HATERS!!! (grrr, hiss) in Skidmore.

But if you knew the facts, Ken Rex got what he deserved. There was another doc I saw on a cable channel about the incident that pretty much exonerated the citizens leaving no doubt that Ken Rex was a violent psychopath with an inevitable result.

[Abathar]

That’s the take I got on it too, even the cops were kind of glad it was finally ended.

They tried to find out who the shooters were of course, but it was more out of “vigilante justice won’t be tolerated under any circumstances” than out of real justice.