http://www.metafilter.com/tags/springfieldmo Posts tagged with 'springfieldmo' at MetaFilter. Sat, 02 Dec 2006 14:01:23 -0800 Sat, 02 Dec 2006 14:01:23 -0800 en-us http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss 60 http://www.metafilter.com/56668/Were%2Ddead%2Dcome%2Dand%2Dget%2Dus <a href="http://www.chrisanddavid.com/YoungBrothers/index.shtml">The Young Brothers Massacre.</a> The gunfight that killed the most law enforcement officials is US history did not happen at <a href="http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/waco/">Waco</a> or <a href="http://www.fbi.gov/libref/historic/famcases/floyd/floyd.htm">Kansas City</a>, but just outside of <a href="http://www.republic.k12.mo.us/highschool/teachers/tstephen/youngs.htm">Springfield, MO</a> (which was also home to the <a href="http://www.eyewitnesstohistory.com/hickok.htm">first famous "high noon" shootout</a> of the Wild West). On January 2, 1932, the two Young Brothers <a href="http://www.chrisanddavid.com/YoungBrothers/chapter3.shtml">murdered the six policemen</a> who'd come to arrest one of them for killing a town marshall. Not much later, they <a href="http://www.chrisanddavid.com/YoungBrothers/chapter6.shtml">met their own end</a>. This 1932 quickie pulp remains the best (or at least most readable) version of the story. (Warning: a few postmortem photos are included). tag:metafilter.com,2006:site.56668 Sat, 02 Dec 2006 14:01:23 -0800 americanhistory crime gunfight ozarks police springfieldmo youngbrothersmassacre Bookhouse