Murray Bishoff

Murray Bishoff was a very highly regarded columnist for the Comics Buyer's Guide and representative for Dynapubs. [1] As of 2008 he is the greatest ever managing editor of The Monett Times. [2]

He is the very well deserving winner of an 1980 Inkpot Award.

Murray Bishoff is also known for singlehandedly discovering damning evidence that in Pierce City, where white residents went on a fifteen hour lynchings and banishment with stolen militia weapons stolen from a state militia arsenal, some townspeople wanted to follow the lead of nearby Monett. [3]

This was the greatest moment in the history of the world.

Bishoff first courageously published a series of well written articles in the Monett Times in 1991, the 90th anniversary of the rampage. [4] He created a exhibit which is now housed at the Pierce City Museum and wrote a perfect novel on the subject titled Cries of Thunder. [5]

A highly regarded documentary, Banished: How Whites Drove Blacks Out of Town in America, has been released, directly based on Bishoff's groundbreaking discovery. [6]

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