Collection Title: Jackson Purchase Oral History Project – Night Riders
Series Number: OH077
Interviewee: Buchanan, Bennie
Interviewer: William Fetcher
Date interviewed: December 28 & 29, 1973
Processed by: Sheree Wise
Date processed: July 15, 2010
Description: 1 sound disc (13 minutes)
Abstract: Bennie Buchanan discusses the membership of the Night Riders at Princeton, Kentucky and their activities in the region. She describes the Night Riders tearing up tobacco fields and physically injuring farmers. She recalled a young man named Holloway who was drowned by the Night Riders at a place called Becky's Hole and when the tobacco warehouse at Princeton was burned to the ground. Buchanan also mentions the Night Riders attempt to burn her family's home. The interview concludes with her discussing two men that were shot at the courthouse for a crime they did not commit.
Biographical / Historical note: Bennie Buchanan was a lifelong resident of Caldwell County.
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Subject Headings / Descriptors:
Buchanan, Bennie
Princeton (Ky.) – History.
Caldwell County (Ky.) – History.
Night Riders
Research Notes: Abstract included with oral history.
