In the late summer of 1922, a dedicated Prohibition Agent by the name of Joseph Perry 'Little Joe' Owen Jr., a 48-year-old white male, found himself in the line of fire in Kosciusko, Mississippi. Having joined the Prohibition Unit on January 2nd of that year, Owen was committed to his role in enforcing the nationwide ban on alcohol. On a fateful day, he accompanied fellow agents and local law enforcement on a raid of an illicit still operating in the vicinity of Kosciusko.
As the officers
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