James Dixon

Death by Force

In the small town of Fouke, Arkansas, a wave of violence marked the Prohibition era, and on a summer day in 1924, that violence claimed the life of 23-year-old James Dixon. The male victim was not alone in death; the tragic incident of gun violence also took the lives of his brother, Charles Dixon, who was 25, and a 52-year-old man named Walter Armstrong. Their deaths on August 18, 1924, are remembered as a grim reminder of the turbulent history of the small Arkansas town.

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