Ludwig P. Johnsen, 44, a White male, was a federal Prohibition agent working a backcountry lead near Leavenworth, Washington, when a routine search for a hidden still turned deadly on July 28, 1928. He and fellow agents Arthur Means and Gerald Church had trekked into the woods outside town to check on reports of an illicit operation. In the dim cover of the timber they encountered two armed men on a trail—men they believed might be moonshiners. Johnsen announced himself as a federal officer an
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