In 1975: Two FBI agents shot dead on Pine Ridge Reservation
On June 26, 1975, FBI Special Agents Jack Coler and Ronald Williams were shot and killed on Pine Ridge Indian Reservation in South Dakota; Leonard Peltier was convicted and sentenced to two consecutive life terms in 1977, though co-defendants were acquitted and the case has been disputed for decades, culminating in a presidential commutation of Peltier's sentence.
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