Rebellion in Jackson County
Rebellion in Jackson County  
Podcast: History on Trial
Published On: Thu Jul 04 2024
Description: In 1933, a populist uprising in Jackson County, Oregon, threatened to overthrow the county government. The escalating violence reached its peak when one of the group's leaders, Llewellyn Banks, shot a police officer who had come to arrest him for election interference. Would Banks's murder trial extinguish the burning ember of insurrection in Jackson County…or fan the flames into an inferno? See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.