In the summer of 1940, a violent confrontation in the hills of Marion County, Tennessee, led to the death of Investigator Samuel Leeper, a 50-year-old male agent with the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives. On July 31st, Leeper and his fellow agents were conducting a raid on an illegal liquor still, a common enterprise in the region during that era. The operation took a deadly turn when they were ambushed by members of the McNabb family, who were well-known local bootleggers.
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