Scarlet Skiftu GORDON'S GRANDDAUGHTER ...7/00...Scarlet Skiftun, been married five years this month... ...my name is the first chapter, but the name is Christina my sister...Bruce Boals met us and decided to tell it thru us...no, she was fourteen or fifteen, he used her perspective...she was fourteen or fifteen...8/30...   ..I read most of the book I have not read the whole thing... I thought it was a very good documentary, I enjoyed it, it uplifted the family...   ...9/11...eighteen...I was in Odessa, tx,...I was a senior in highschool, I lived with my mother and sister...   ...yeah, I know ...9/42...the shootout happened on a sunday evening...I got up the next morning and my mother and stepdad said this happened and we're going to ND...I was in shock. I loved him very much...it was a tragedy, I was hurt by it...   ...10/34...must have been when I was about six or seven,...my sister and mother and my natural dad...my sister and I were jumping on the bed...her earlobe was ripped off...she took me to my grandparents, he was a lot of fun...he was real concerned about Christina...nothing was ever any different...he was a really loving grandfather...that's my first recollection of him... 11/50...I grew up in Odessa, TX...   ...12/16...okay, grandpa gordon, my mother was the oldest daughter linda...Christina is four years ytounger, she's 22...   ...13/03...my mother and my natural father divorced when I was five years old and there was another man in my mothers live at that time and I guess you would call him my stepdad...   ...13/35...well, we were at bud and Alta Brakels home. That's where my Aunt Loreen and her fiance were. and Janice and the two kids, the little boy had not arrived yet...the first person I saw was my aunt loreen and there were a lot of tears...   ...14/40...yea, for many years they were there year around,...we looked forward to be there for two weeks, we spent the summer there, ...it was always such a big thrill...I guess we had that one on one...whereas with your own parents...   ...16/05...that's the same time he was sent to leavenworth, I was a bout ten or eleven...   ...16/27...I remember just before he was sent to springfield...grandpa and grandma have a birthday right together...Loreen and I got a dolly madison cake and put it in a pan...it was the day before grandpa was to be sent away and I remember that's one incident I remember. He come in and we had a birthday party...I don't remember him letting us see any sadness.   ...17/13...oh yeah, I remmeber his music...it was wonderful, you could sit and listen to him all day...it would be like he was reading it off the ceiling...I really enjoyed it...   17/52...Grandpa had a wonderful sense of humor...very easy going, he laughed a lot...   ...18/21...I was in odessa, that was in May of 83...   ...no, I didn't forget about it, my mother was gone for several weeks, it was a worry...18/53...just a constant worry as to what was going to happen to grandma and Yori's future...   19/38...oh I was bvery sad. Yori and I were very close. He waslike the big brother I never had...(choked up) it was really hard... ... ...(Yori)...19/57...very protective, very fine, YOri stayed with us several diffent times...I guess he was better than a big brother, cause I didn't get picked on...I'm six years younger than Yori, he was very caring, very warm...very protective... ...I've not met anybody that is quite like Yori...   ...20/47...oh I see several I guess, they're both very strong willed, very strong minded. They're both the kind of individuals who are so caring that they'll give you the shirt off their back and whenever it comes to children or somebody in need or hurt, Yori and Grandpa have the same compassion. and the genlte spirit, just a gentleness about them...now being incarcerated I'm sure has hardened that a bit...there's just a gentleness about them that you don't find with many men...21/25...   ...22/01...well, theree were a lot, course I wsn't around when grandpa was fighting this...he didn't share this with his granddaughter...so there was a lot of things that I was in question about, there were a lot of things I was in doubt about, cause I just could'nt believe that all those things being said could be true... (CUT W/CORCORAN) ... ...I was in Odessa, ...on the news, my mther and stepfather, ...   ...23/45...it was extrememly hard on her (Linda), I don't feel that she ever accepted that this could happen to her dad...mom and I never really discussed how she felt , other then what was obvious, the tears, the depression, the anger...24/13... (LINDA'S SUICIDE) ...24/23...well, that's what's been said...I feel she did, there are those that have different ideas. I feel she did, becuase from the time that happened till the time that she was gone, there was a halo of depression and it just got worse and worse...24/45...   ...June of '83 to March of '84...eight months from the death of grandpa...   ...25/24...no,...there were many other factors in my mother's life at that time....I don't think that was the cause, I don't think that alone caused the suicide...25/40... ... ...25/49...well, I, this fellow that I called my stepfather, there are those that think he is capable of murder, he and my mother were in the midst of a divorce at that time...and uh, there was friends that we had had, there was one in particular, that his body was found about a year prior to then, and he been in his younger days been heavily involved with drugs and there was a murder, that was murder,...and mom claimed that she knew who committed this murder. Well, when you link that, there can be the possibilibty in somebodies eyes that whoever committed that murder would also be capable of this...I don't know ,,,there was much unhappiness in my mother's life at that time...I guess that I feel that she did committ suicide...26/52... (CUT W/JOAN'S COMMENTS ON SUICIDE)   27/12...I would say Loreen, ...we're one year apart and we're extremely close...   ...27/44...well, I guess I'd have to say Mom, considering the fact that the suicide did happen following this...However Lonnie who has had complications dealing with several things in years...I guess obviously, other than Yori, I'd say mom. Lorna seems to be doing okay. Loreen seems to be fine. and freddie is distant, he's chose to be distant. He's chose to be distant. I don't know if that's a sign...I don't know how to answer that , except for the fact that mom's gone... ...process of elimination you see, he's chose to be distant...maybe this is his way with dealing.   ...29/35...um, until I moved up here and if you know anything about rural communites you walk into a place everytone says I'm so and so, who are you. and the next question is where are you from? how do you link up? then it comes into play, I'm Gordon Kahl's granddaughter...29/50...   ...30/43...You know, ultimately it is my heritage. and I'm not the least bit ashamed of what happened. I'm saddened that it had to happen. Cause we lost a very wonderful person...30/55... ...31/32...I think he was very courageious. I think he was very wise...umm, there are a lot things that I'm uncertain about yet, to find out what's really what he says. I tend to trust and belive him because of the love that I have for him...31/55... ...32/41...PHOTO OF SCARLET AND FAMILY) PHOTO OF JOAN ALONE ON MANTEL. END SCARLET'S INTERVIEW END TAPE @ 12:33:06 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?