They Called Him America’s First ‘Right Wing Domestic Terrorist,’ But What’s the Real Story?

Forty years ago, the FBI and U.S. Marshals were encircling fugitive Gordon Kahl in rural Lawrence County, Arkansas. A tax protestor who killed two U.S. Marshals in a shootout, Kahl would purportedly be classified as America’s first right-wing domestic terrorist by the FBI. The bureau certainly treated him as such on June 3, 1983, when agents poured thousands … Continue reading They Called Him America’s First ‘Right Wing Domestic Terrorist,’ But What’s the Real Story?