Constable L. R. Campbell, a male law officer serving around Barbourville in Knox County, Kentucky, was killed in gunfire during a violent eruption at the county fairgrounds in late August 1907.
The trouble started as a chaotic, close-range exchange—described in contemporary reporting as a free-for-all gunfight near the fairgrounds—where people fired at each other in the crush of the crowd. Campbell moved in to stop the fighting and restore order, but the moment he stepped into the st
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