The Carmack-Cooper Shooting

<p> Late on the afternoon of November 9 1908 five shots rang out from the corner of Seventh and Union in downtown Nashville. As the echoes faded former U.S. Senator Edward W. Carmack lay dead and Robin J. Cooper son of prominent businessman Colonel Duncan B. Cooper reeled from the impact of a bullet intended for his father.</p><p> Was it a planned assassination or just an unfortunate incident in an old friendship that politics had turned into bitter enmity?</p><p> Through extensive research including a study of actual trial documents and the papers of both Cooper and Carmack this account explores the events leading up to this deadly encounter and the resulting murder trial that has gone down in history as one of the South's most famous.</p>