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This is the home page for the law office of John M. Eagleton, a Tulsa Attorney and Counselor at Law. Contact Mr. Eagleton at 918-584-2002.
Mr. Eagleton served as a Tulsa City Councilor for District 7 from April 2006 to December 2011. Visit the Tulsa City Council District Finder for the name and contact information for your current city councilor.
Quotable
"If we raise taxes we will drive business and industry away from Tulsa."
-- Councilor John Eagleton, January 26, 2010
"It is impossible to introduce into society a greater change and a greater evil than this: the conversion of law into an instrument of plunder."
| The Battle of Athens: Veterans stand against government corruption | | Print | |
| Wednesday, 14 March 2012 13:48 | |||
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Here is an inspiring story of courage in the face of corruption and oppression. In August 1946, in McMinn County, Tennessee, a group of GIs recently returned from World War II determined to overthrow the county's entrenched, corrupt political machine by winning at the ballot box. They put together a non-partisan slate of veterans to run for office and campaigned on a well-received platform of county reform. The machine tried to protect its power by cheating, stealing the ballot boxes to "count" votes behind the closed doors of the jail, out of public view. The veterans responded by going to the jail. When the deputies inside fired at the GIs, the GIs returned fire, ultimately using dynamite to drive the sheriff and his men to surrender. Miraculously, no one was killed or permanently injured during the confrontation, which came to be known as the Battle of Athens. Here is an excerpt from An American Story, a 1992 Hallmark made-for-TV movie which presents a fictionalized version of the Battle of Athens. More about the Battle of Athens: Battle of Athens, Wikipedia article The Battle of Athens, American Heritage magazine, February-March 1985 Contemporary press reports and chronology of the battle, by Don Hamrick
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