In the fall of 1963, a dedicated federal agent met a violent and untimely end in rural Bibb County, Alabama. Joe Brooks Cooper, a 36-year-old Special Agent with the Alcohol and Tobacco Tax Division was a White male and a veteran of the U.S. Marine Corps. On October 25, 1963, he and his fellow agents were executing a federal search warrant at a dance hall known as Club 92, located a few miles southwest of Brent. The club's operator, Tod Tidwell, was the target of an investigation into the illegal
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