In the early 20th century, the city of Joplin, Missouri, was the setting for a violent series of events that began with the death of a local law enforcement official. On April 14, 1903, Theodore Leslie, a 35-year-old White male officer with the Joplin Police Department, was investigating a reported theft from a local hardware store. The inquiry led him and other officers to the Kansas City Southern Railroad yards near Broadway, where they believed the individual responsible for stealing pistols
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