James H. Jenkins, a 57-year-old male, was a Craighead County deputy sheriff in Jonesboro, Arkansas, when his final call unfolded on December 11, 1928. He approached three youths suspected of liquor violations amid the Prohibition-era tensions that made even routine arrests volatile. What began as an attempt to take them into custody erupted into gunfire. Jenkins was shot and mortally wounded in the line of duty, leaving behind a department he had served for two decades and a family of a wife and
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