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Then-Senator (later President) Harry S. Truman being 'held up' with his own guns, USA, 1938 (lemmy.world)
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[–] bibliotectress@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago

Oh weird. I don't think I'd ever heard that before. Wikipedia said it was a "somewhat common" practice in the south at the time.