Jack Miller JACK MILLER Tape #13 2/36...I had never met him. I had heard about him just several days prior to this incident from a US Marshal who was coming thru Jamestown, who stopped and informed us that they had a misdemeanor warrant for this gentlemen. That he was travelling about the country and that they would like to be kept posted if we saw him...Carl Wigglesworth...2/58... ...I got this directly from Carl because I'd known him for years...he was relating to us about the warrant and things...3/15...   ...I'd heard that he headed up some of the farm meetings, ...but as far as having some good intelligence on the guy I can't say that I did...3/35...   ...3/47...I hate to say he was one of my deputies, he was a stutsman county deputy, a veteran deputy, Bradley Kapp, yes... JACK MILLER Tape #13 ...4/00...yeah, he called me I don't remember what time it was, but he told me that there was a meeting going on in Medina and that he was sure GK was going to be there or GK was there, I can't remember exactly what he said. I basically told him at that point that we ...4/16... ...I'd not seen the warrant, that Carl had not shown us the warrant , or we didn't have the warrant in hand, so that I didn't feel that it was appropriate for our office to attempt to arrest at that point in time without a warrant...4/26... ... ...4/32...well, not necessarily, was the next best thing, he called the people with the warrant and then the people with the warrant then came to effectively arrest him and Bradley helped them and I'd of done the same thing, if I'd of been there...   ...5/10...when the FBI and US Marshals took over we offered to help them. ...I worked on several different teams during this investigation...   ...6/10...well, see, after I was at the crime scene, actually my wife had recieved a call from Vernon Wagner that he was at the crime scene there, he and David Broer both......Jim Lobsinger, an agent with the bureau of criminal investigation and I, we then went to Streeter to interview these people...and we did, at vernon wagners home. Lobsinger who is also a police artist, as I interviewed them he made a big sketch of what occurred...6/57...   ...7/05...I knew vernon, yes, I didn't know Broer, I knew of him... ...well, I'd been doing investigations for a number of years... ...8/02...very quiet lady, she was nice to visit with...(re: Joan)...   ...8/35...Brent Frost and I talked with Yorie at the hospital, I'm trying to remember without reports in front of me it's hard to remember, but I think we talked with him twice...8/45... ...both times, asked him what occurred at the shootout...well, he ahh, he, was pretty sure he was the one that fired the first round, I'm pretty sure I testified to that in court...He seemed to be very comfortable with what occurred, comfortable with himself, to the point of feeling good about it...9/20...   9/50...well, obviously it had a devastating effect on the community of Medina, of course, and of course that went thru the whole county, it was a very black day for us...   ...10/15...I know our deputy Bradley Kapp was very much traumatized by this, but came out of it very well...   ...10/45...some of the things that I liked about the book thought he was very objective...most people thought of it as a novel. Some of the things that the author said that I said are not correct because I never talked to the author personally...11/09... ...well, after we interviewed Broer and Wagner in Streeter, drove back and called Rodney Webb and he told us to go back and arrest them...   ...12/46...well, I was very happy with Judge Benson and the way that the trial went. I think that justice was served... CREDITS with interviews of... Joan Kahl Yorie Kahl Lynn Crooks Toots Mathis Dennis Fisher John Noah Irv Nodland Bill Kennelly Prof. Ed Gran Jack McLamb Delores Everts Scarlet Skiftu Herman Widicker August Pankow Victor Seil Marlys Klimek Ron Perleberg Len Martin Brad Kapp Robert Holiday Tom Lee Ed Fitzpatrick Gene Nail Buford Terrell Marlene Gaysek Bob Ralston Darrel Graf Steve Schnabel Jack Swan Loreen Dyck Lorna/Loreen Mark Stagg Sheriff Ray Weatherby Jack Miller cinematography Tracy Adams Allison Hoffman Jeffrey F. Jackson production design Jim Haddon Peter Lloyd film editing Tracy Adams Martyn Hone Jeffrey F. Jackson original music by Tracy Adams sound department Tracy Adams Jeffrey F. Jackson stunts Rex Reddick produced by Jeffrey F. Jackson Angela Kaye writing by Jeffrey F. Jackson directed by Jeffrey F. Jackson CHRONOLOGY A timeline of the life of Gordon Kahl, from early childhood interests, to his marriage to Joan Kahl, his decorated military experience, his outspoken tax protest, the Medina shootout, and his unusual death in Arkansas in 1983. REVIEWS VARIETY /   Indie documaker Jeffrey F. Jackson sticks it to the IRS and the Feds in "Death & Taxes," a hard-hitting reinvestigation of the 1983 Gordon Kahl case, about which questions still linger. Jackson's unfazed, investigative reporting-style approach and inventive handling of familiar material make this a controversial item for fests and progressive webs. Non-U.S. viewers will also get a charge out of its conspiracy theme. read more CHRONICLES MAGAZINE /   Gordon Kahl was a simple farmer who became famous for not filing income tax returns. Imprisoned and hounded by IRS agents who never did prove he owed any amount of money, Kahl and his son were involved in a shootout with police. The son is still serving a prison sentence, but the father was surrounded and shot in Arkansas by police officers who mutilated and burned his body. read more GUNS & AMMO /   A new video documentary, Death & Taxes, details a case of government murderously out of control that was briefly mentioned in the October 1994 Guns & Ammo article "The Ugly Truth About Gun Control." Death & Taxes is the story of Gordon Kahl, a North Dakota farmer and decorated World War II veteran, and his apparent death at the hands of federal agents. read more

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This set of 6 DVD's comprises over 13 hours of uncut footage, including a 2+ hour prison interview with Yorie Kahl, and candid interviews with wife Joan Kahl. In this rich stockpile of research, you'll find many more threads than could reasonably be pursued in the final feature. A little-known fact regarding Death & Taxes is the surprising connection to Timothy McVeigh and the ATF / Oklahoma City Bombing. Here's a clip of Jackson sharing the story during a director's commentary on his film Postal Worker. The story of Gordon Kahl so captured the attention of mainstream America that it was turned into a highly-rated made-for-television movie titled In The Line of Duty - Manhunt In The Dakotas.

DEATH & TAXES is the story of Gordon Kahl, a North Dakota farmer who became America's "most-wanted" fugitive. How had a WWII war hero become the target of one of the largest manhunts in FBI history?

Was Kahl a racist, gun-toting fanatic? Or a victim of an IRS policy of harassing vocal tax protestors into silence to keep the rest of us intimidated? Did Bill Clinton conspire to cover-up the torture and execution of Gordon Kahl in Arkansas? Did federal agents mutilate and burn the body to cover-up the murder of the wrong man? DEATH & TAXES follows the trail of Gordon Kahl as his body is exhumed for a new autopsy. Building on newsreel clips covering two fiery shootouts and hundreds of interviews -- with IRS agents and federal prosecutors as well as Kahl's family and supporters -- D&T explores the myths and controversies surrounding a man who dared to challenge the federal income tax system. Some revile Kahl as a cop killer. Others revere him as an American patriot. Which was he?