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Two FBI agents die in a firefight at Pine Ridge; an AIM member is also killed in the same exchange

Agents Coler and Williams drove onto the Jumping Bull Ranch on an assault case and stumbled into a gunfight; at least 125 rounds fired before it was over.

The Pine Ridge Reservation in 1975 was caught between a federally backed tribal government and the American Indian Movement, with violence running in both directions. On June 26, FBI agents Jack Coler and Ronald Williams drove onto the Jumping Bull Ranch looking for a suspect in an assault case and stumbled into a firefight with AIM members camped there. Both agents were killed — at least 125 bullets fired — and AIM member Joe Stuntz died in the same confrontation, found wearing one of the agents' FBI jackets. Leonard Peltier was convicted of the murders in 1977 and sentenced to two consecutive life terms, though his case would spend the next half-century in the courts and in the conscience of the country…

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