As a native Kentuckian, I'd never even heard about this before...
https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/ne...y-sin-city
Wow though...
This footballer George Ratterman became the face of the movement to reform Newport and take out all the corruption...
Long story fricken short?!
What a story!!!
That's some Old West kinda shit right there, lmao!!!
Damn dude. I'm glad his name was cleared and the plot was outed...
These days, pft. He'd be thrown in a cell and never be a free man again, and the corruption would continue.
Hats off to Ratterman!!! That's a legitimate American hero right there!!!
https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/ne...y-sin-city
Wow though...
This footballer George Ratterman became the face of the movement to reform Newport and take out all the corruption...
Long story fricken short?!
Quote:On May 9, 1961, while campaigning as a candidate for sheriff of Campbell County, Kentucky, he was drugged with chloral hydrate and put in bed with stripper April Flowers in an attempt to blackmail him and force him to drop from the race. The plot was uncovered, and publicity from the botched frame-up attempt catapulted him and his party to victory in the election. While sheriff, with cooperation from federal agents and personal interest of then-U.S. Attorney General Robert F. Kennedy, he was able to rid the county, and particularly the city of Newport, of gambling, prostitution and vice businesses that had dominated the area since the Civil War.
What a story!!!
That's some Old West kinda shit right there, lmao!!!
Damn dude. I'm glad his name was cleared and the plot was outed...
These days, pft. He'd be thrown in a cell and never be a free man again, and the corruption would continue.
Hats off to Ratterman!!! That's a legitimate American hero right there!!!
