Tuesday, February 09, 2016

Col Sanders was a Shell gas station manager in Nashville in the 1920s, and got into a gunfight and shot a rival gas station manager. That's a fact.

Harland Sanders was managing a Shell gas station in Nashville during the late 1920s and was at war with a competing Standard Oil station down the road.

Matt Stewart, the owner of the Standard Oil station kept painting over a sign that was advertising Sanders' business. Sanders and Stewart were both hot tempered men, and pretty soon Sanders threatened to shoot Stewart if he kept messing with his signs.

Sanders was meeting with two district managers from Shell one day when they saw Stewart painting over the sign yet again. Sanders and the two men rushed down to stop him. Stewart saw the men coming, jumped off his painting ladder and started shooting. Robert Gibson, one of the Shell managers, was killed in a hail of Stewart's bullets. Sanders grabbed Gibson's gun off his dead body and returned fire along with the surviving manager, H. D. Shelburne.

"Don't shoot, Sanders! You've killed me!" Stewart reportedly said. Obviously, Sanders hadn't killed Stewart but he was indeed wounded. And in the wake of the bloody mess all the surviving men were arrested. The case went to trial and both Shelburne and Sanders got off without serving any time. Matt Stewart on the other hand received 18 years for murdering Shell manager Robert Gibson.

http://factually.gizmodo.com/no-colonel-sanders-never-killed-a-man-in-a-shootout-1651797965

The 2012 book Colonel Sanders and the American Dream by Josh Ozersky tells the real story of the shootout in riveting detail.




Wow, Never thought that would be a play, acting out the situation, on You Tube... what a strange thing

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