03-29-2022, 12:59 PM
(03-29-2022, 12:01 PM)Sled21 Wrote: Sounds more like something that would happen in Jackson, in Breathitt County than Jackson County, Ky, but I wouldn't put it past either place. They don't call it "Bloody Breathitt" for no reason.
My cousin is actually from Breathitt County. That is where my Dad was from. But he had gone to another county to watch the basketball game.
I have actually done a good bit of research on "Bloody Breathitt". It is quite fascinating that a tiny rural county n Kentucky could get a nationwide reputation like that. The killing was all politically motivated based on the divisions from the Civil War. But it was framed as a "feud" because defending family honor sounded better than "political assassinations".
The guy who wrote "Hillbilly Elegy", J.D. Vance, is a great grandson of Judge William Blanton who was behind many of the murders.
