Scott County
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Oct 23, 2026
Mike MalloryHOST
Maddow was returned to the Marshall County Detention Center.
Mike MalloryHOST
Crews in Scott County, Missouri, faced a large fire at a commercial property near the town of Minor yesterday.
Mike MalloryHOST
Photos from the scene show hundreds of tires on fire with thick black smoke billowing out.
Mike MalloryHOST
So far, no injuries have been reported.
BirdGUEST
Uh, in March, local prosecutor David E. Blanton announced a grand jury's decision that there would be no indictments in the Cleo Wright case.
BirdGUEST
Blanton had positively identified several of the lynching suspects, uh, but the Scott County grand jury and himself had suffered injuries while attempting to stop the lynching.
BirdGUEST
He still did not press any charges for any of the people involved.
BirdGUEST
There was a article in The Courier that responded to the tragedy with a follow-up editorial entitled Remember Pearl Harbor and Sikeston Too.
BirdGUEST
Uh, in May, a federal grand jury convened for the first time ever in a lynching case, and it failed to bring any indictments to any of the Sikeston residents.
BirdGUEST
Unable to end the practice of lynching in the United States, US authorities instead continued to investigate the political disquietness among Black Missourians and other Black dissenters across the country.
BirdGUEST
US Attorney Harry Blanton, who was a native of Sikeston, uh, and his elder brother was the Scott County prosecuting attorney, David Blanton.
BirdGUEST
They came to assume a prominent role in the investigation of these pro-Japanese sentiments in the St. Louis and East St. Louis region.
BirdGUEST
Uh, in March, local prosecutor David E. Blanton announced a grand jury's decision that there would be no indictments in the Cleo Wright case.
BirdGUEST
Blanton had positively identified several of the lynching suspects, uh, but the Scott County grand jury and himself had suffered injuries while attempting to stop the lynching.
BirdGUEST
He still did not press any charges for any of the people involved.
BirdGUEST
There was a article in The Courier that responded to the tragedy with a follow-up editorial entitled Remember Pearl Harbor and Sikeston Too.
BirdGUEST
Uh, in May, a federal grand jury convened for the first time ever in a lynching case, and it failed to bring any indictments to any of the Sikeston residents.
BirdGUEST
Unable to end the practice of lynching in the United States, US authorities instead continued to investigate the political disquietness among Black Missourians and other Black dissenters across the country.
BirdGUEST
US Attorney Harry Blanton, who was a native of Sikeston, uh, and his elder brother was the Scott County Prosecuting Attorney, David Blanton, they came to assume a prominent role in the investigation of these pro-Japanese sentiments in the St. Louis and East St. Louis region.
BirdGUEST
And as a result, a two-count indictment was filed in East St. Louis in early 1943 against David Irwin and General Lee Butler, who were leaders, Black leaders, of a pro-Japan organization known as the Pacific Movement of the Eastern World.