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In 1952, the Army disregarded the advice of a top officer and decided to hold open-air biological warfare tests at Fort McClellan in Anniston, Alabama. In those tests the Army used two different bacterial agents that seem to have led to elevated rates of pneumonia cases among Anniston residents that winter. The bacterial agents were delivered in gaseous plumes and bacterial-filled bombs. But no one in the general public knew about it -- until a reporter for The Anniston Star newspaper used the Freedom of Information Act in 1981 to get declassified documents and publish these astonishing details.
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An introduction to Annie’s Town, a new podcast about Anniston, Alabama, a quirky and frustrating Deep South city and its historical cast of characters and catalog of stories.
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The story of Anniston’s role in the Freedom Riders civil rights story is well known. But while racial violence was taking place in the city on Mother’s Day 1961, many Annistonians were oblivious and attended church, played golf and visited with their families.
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Historians don’t know much about Annie Scott Tyler, who gave her name to the city of Anniston, Alabama. But we can learn snippets about her life by examining her background, her fascinating Confederate father and her social circle.
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In 1888, William Edmonds, editor of The Hot Blast newspaper in Anniston, Alabama, began a scorched-earth editorial crusade against vice and bootlegging in the city. He didn't make friends with the police (who were corrupt) and the bootleggers (who didn't want their revenue curtailed by a journalist…
The founders of Anniston, Alabama, installed the city’s first 24 ordinances in 1877 and designed them to shape behaviors, uphold morals and keep rotting animals from fouling downtown. (Seriously.)
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