On November 9, 1908, five shots rang out near the Tennessee capitol building in Nashville. Two shots came from the pistol of U.S. Senator Edward Ward Carmack; three came from the gun of Robin Cooper, who had leaped in front of his father, Colonel Duncan B. Cooper, Carmack's target. When the shooting was over, Senator Carmack lay dead on the streets. Neither Duncan nor Robin Cooper served time in jail. Colonel Cooper was pardoned by Governor Malcolm Patterson; Robin was acquitted in a retrial. Through trial documents, the papers of Colonel Duncan Cooper and Carmack, and extensive research, the background, political intrigue and consequences of this pivotal event in Tennessee politics are studied.

The Carmack-Cooper Shooting: Tennessee Politics Turn Violent, November 9, 1908

History

Summerville, James

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McFarland Publishing

Late on the afternoon of November 9, 1908, five shots rang out from the corner of Seventh and Union in downtown Nashville. As the echoes faded, former U.S. Senator Edward W. Carmack lay dead and Robin J. Cooper, son of prominent businessman Colonel Duncan B. Cooper, reeled from the impact of a bullet intended for his father.  Was it a planned assassination or just an unfortunate incident in an old friendship that politics had turned into bitter enmity?  Through extensive research, including a study of actual trial documents and the papers of both Cooper and Carmack, this account explores the events leading up to this deadly encounter and the resulting murder trial that has gone down in history as one of the South's most famous.

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The Carmack-Cooper Shooting: Tennessee Politics Turn Violent, November 9, 1908

The Carmack-Cooper Shooting: Tennessee Politics Turns Violent, November 9, 1908

America: A Photographic History

Educating Black Doctors: A History of Meharry Medical College

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Colleagues on the Cumberland: A history of the Nashville legal profession

Southern Epic: Nashville Through Two Hundred Years