All those harsh things I said about Anniston AL the other night? Phenix City makes Anniston look like Berkeley. It was taken over by the National Guard in the 50s when the crime-driven murder rate got out of hand.

“The 1955 film The Phenix City Story (directed by Phil Karlson) is a biopic film noir focusing on the rampant crime and corruption in the city (then called “the wickedest city in the United States”) and the 1954 murder of newly nominated Alabama Attorney General candidate Albert Patterson.”

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