The Good O' Boys Roundup
by Charles Overbeck
Matrix Editor
PSCPirhana@aol.com
In the summer of 1995, Americans were shocked by testimony before the Senate Judiciary Committee regarding the "Good O' Boys Roundup," an annual law enforcement gathering in the Tennessee hills which was notorious for racist and lewd activity. Registration fees for the Roundup were sent to Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms agent Gene Rightmyer, who organized the gathering from the BATF office in Greenville, South Carolina, and later from an office in Knoxville, Tennessee, from 1980 until the Roundup was exposed in 1995.
But the story of the Good O' Boys Roundup may never have come to light without the determined efforts of Alabama militia members and a videotape filmed by a David Duke supporter who shot the footage of the Roundup as an attendee in 1990. Although the "Good O' Boy" allegations were originally mocked by the mass media, many of the claims were later verified.
(c) Copyright 1996 ParaScope, Inc.
