Episode 12: Rebellion in Jackson County
Oregon v. Llewellyn and Edith Banks
In 1933, a populist uprising in Jackson County, Oregon, threatened to overthrow the county government. The escalating violence reached its peak when one of the group's leaders, Llewellyn Banks, shot a police officer who had come to arrest him for election interference. Would Banks's murder trial extinguish the burning ember of insurrection in Jackson County…or fan the flames into an inferno?
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Joe R. Blakely, Rebellion, Murder and a Pulitzer Prize (Createspace, 2015).
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"California, County Birth and Death Records, 1800-1994", database, FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:QGLW-F297 : Thu Mar 07 20:29:05 UTC 2024), Entry for Ruth May Banks and Llewellyn Alba Banks, 7 January 1921.
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"California Death Index, 1940-1997," database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:VP45-1Y8 : 26 November 2014), Edith R Banks, 10 Nov 1967; Department of Public Health Services, Sacramento.
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“Civilian Conservation Corps 1938, 468th Company, Camp Prescott, Medford, Oregon”.
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Elise Tam Cooc, “Prescott Park Development–Medford OR,” Living New Deal, January 10, 2014.
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”Find Mrs. Martin Guilty; Sentence Given Wednesday,” Medford Mail Tribune, October 10, 1933, page 1.
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“Judge Norton’s Decision,” Medford Mail Tribune, October 12, 1933, page 6.
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"Illinois Births and Christenings, 1824-1940", database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:H9LZ-823Z : 13 February 2020), Edith Robertine Ward, 1881.
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“Jackson County History,” Oregon Secretary of State.
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Jeffrey Max LaLande, “Bonus Army,” The Oregon Encyclopedia, last updated September 12, 2022.
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Jeffrey Max LaLande, “Good Government Congress (Jackson County Rebellion),” The Oregon Encyclopedia, last updated March 16, 2023.
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Jeffrey Max LaLande, The Jackson County Rebellion: A Populist Uprising in Depression-Era Oregon (Corvallis, OR: Oregon State University Press, 2023).
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“Land Acknowledgment,” Jackson County Library Services, 2022.
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“Prescott Park brochure,” Medford Parks, Recreation & Facilities.”
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E.A. Schwartz, “Rogue River War of 1855-1856,” The Oregon Encyclopedia, last updated March 14, 2022.
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"Oregon Death Index, 1903-1998," database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:VZHF-N5F : 11 December 2014), Earl H Fehl, 29 Jan 1962.
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“Some State Comments on Award of Pulitzer Prize,” Medford Mail Tribune, May 9, 1934, page 6.
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“U.S. Census Bureau History: The Civilian Conservation Corps, 1933-1942,” United States Census Bureau, March 2020.