The horrible tragedy sparked a movie and books about that horrible day. How a farm crisis, anti-tax, anti-government movement forever changed North Dakota, in a 30-second shootout.
Watch, listen and read exclusive reporting 40 years in the making as Forum Communications Columnist Jim Shaw looks back at the infamous Medina, North Dakota, shootout and tells where it stands today.
Five law enforcement officers were injured and another was traumatized by the horrors of the 1983 Medina shootout. Surviving officers and family members share their pain.
In this first installment of a three-part series, police officers who were at the scene of the shootout with Gordon Kahl, Yorie Kahl and Scott Faul offer a glimpse of the harrowing experience.
Kahl, along with Scott Faul, are serving life sentences for the shooting deaths of a U.S. marshal and a deputy marshal outside Medina, North Dakota in 1983.
Jim Corcoran's coverage of Gordon Kahl and the right-wing group Posse Comitatus for The Forum evolved into a book, "Bitter Harvest," which stemmed from a deadly shootout between Kahl and U.S. marshals near Medina, North Dakota, in 1983.
