Federal William Frank Porter

Death by Force

In the pre-dawn hours of June 20, 1925, Federal Prohibition Agent William Frank Porter, a 39-year-old White/Caucasian male, was part of a team of federal officers preparing to raid a suspected still operation near Camp Creek, West Virginia. Unbeknownst to them, a separate group of state prohibition officers was converging on the same location with the same objective. The rural, wooded landscape and the darkness of the early morning set the stage for a tragic misunderstanding that would prove fat ...Read More

William F. Porter | Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives