Campaign stop in Campbellsville precedes election unrest, assassination
photo/SUBMITTED This print, "Hon. William Goebel, Our Martyred Governor," was given to the Taylor Regional Archive Center by local historian Steven Wright, of Hodgenville. photo/SUBMITTED Shown is a sketch of the Goebel assassination in Harper’s Weekly, 1900. In the waning days of the 19th century, Kentucky’s gubernatorial race between Republican William Taylor of Butler County and Democrat William Goebel of Covington was unbelievably bitter. Taylor was the current Attorney General of Ken...
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