Ben Montgomery
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first heard Jul 2026
last heard 17 Jul
Ben Montgomery’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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If they've got a gun, they squat and fire right at Denning's house.
His children would later testify, a couple of them, that they witnessed bullets sail through the air through their cabin.
Denning's 12-year-old daughter would testify in court that a bullet went through her hair.
And as soon as the gunshots started, he went for his own rifle.
Not far away in Memphis, Tennessee, Ida B. Wells, the black journalist, was shot.
was writing right around this time about the importance for black people in the rural South to arm themselves because lynching was so common and was getting, it seemed to her, more frequent.
She said famously, a Winchester rifle should have a place of honor in every black home and it should be used for that protection which the law refuses to give.
So whether Denning had a rifle for hunting, which was common, or for his own protection, which may also have been common, I don't know.
But he grabbed his rifle and he started making his way upstairs.
And as he passed a window on the east side of the house, he felt pain in his arm, in his left bicep.
and looked down and saw blood, but he was on his way up the steps.
So he continued up the steps.
The top of the steps were a window with wooden shutters.
The window did not have a glass pane, just these two wooden shutters.
And as he reached the window, he threw it open and leaned out with his gun at his shoulder.
And just as he squeezed off one shot of birdshot from a double-barreled shotgun,
He took a bullet right in his forehead.
What we know is the bullet entered his skin at his forehead and traveled up under the skin, but above his skull.
It didn't penetrate the skull, but traveled under his skin and then came out about three inches from where it had entered his forehead.
He immediately retreats back into the house, the bullet wound to his head and a bullet wound to his left arm.
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