On a summer evening in 1929, the quiet of Franklin County, Alabama, was shattered by a violent encounter that would ultimately claim the life of a dedicated lawman. Deputy Sheriff D. E. Tidwell, a 39-year-old officer with the Franklin County Sheriff's Office, was a man committed to his duty. On Saturday, July 20, 1929, while on patrol along the Jackson Highway, he and a fellow deputy stopped to assist three men whose vehicle had reportedly run out of gasoline.
What began as an apparent ac
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