Lindsey Graham
speaker
15,077 appearances
196 recordings
52 series
first heard Aug 2024
last heard 16 Sep
Lindsey Graham’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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Imagine it's June 1902.
You're the chief U.S.
Marshal in Indian Territory, and you're sitting in your office in Muskogee, catching up on paperwork.
For two days, a warrant for the arrest of Benjamin Reeves, the 21-year-old son of Deputy Marshal Bass Reeves, has sat on your desk.
You know you need to bring Benjamin in, but you also know that none of your deputies want to go after the son of a man as well-liked as Reeves.
so you're caught a little flat-footed when the elder Reeves enters your office.
You gesture to the seat across from your desk, but he ignores your request.
Reeves' eyes blink rapidly as he processes this news.
You've never seen him so shaken.
You avert your gaze, staring down at the arrest warrant on your desk.
Reeves takes a step forward, his posture stiffening.
Reeves takes the arrest warrant from your desk and stares at the name on it, shaking his head in disbelief.
You'll almost reach back for it, but truth be told, you're relieved you won't have to assign the job to someone else.
Without another word, Reeves walks out of your office, clearly determined to honor his commitment to the badge.
When Bass Reeves learned that a warrant had been issued for his son, he insisted on making the arrest himself, causing the local newspaper to commend Reeves' devotion to duty above all else.
After he was brought in, Benjamin Reeves was tried and sentenced to life in prison.
But Benjamin's imprisonment was not the first hardship to strike the Reeves family.
Two of Reeves' sons had already found themselves on the wrong side of the law, sentenced to prison for perjury.
By 1903, his eldest son had been killed in a railway accident, and his wife Jenny and two other sons had died of disease.
Despite this string of personal tragedies, though, by the time Reeves was in his late 60s, he was still a formidable force in Muskogee.
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