{"id":3379,"date":"2025-02-16T19:00:17","date_gmt":"2025-02-16T23:00:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/storiesofappalachia.com\/?p=3379"},"modified":"2025-02-15T12:03:42","modified_gmt":"2025-02-15T16:03:42","slug":"standoff-in-jefferson-county-tennessee-the-haunting-case-of-w-b-johnson","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/storiesofappalachia.com\/?p=3379","title":{"rendered":"Standoff in Jefferson County, Tennessee: The Haunting Case of W.B. Johnson"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"embed-youtube\" style=\"text-align:center; display: block;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"youtube-player\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/kVVY3Vn3oOA?version=3&#038;rel=1&#038;showsearch=0&#038;showinfo=1&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;fs=1&#038;hl=en-US&#038;autohide=2&#038;wmode=transparent\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" style=\"border:0;\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-presentation allow-popups-to-escape-sandbox\"><\/iframe><\/span><\/p>\n<p>In this special YouTube only bonus episode of Stories of Appalachia, we tell the story of a shocking event in January 1927 in Jefferson County, Tennessee. <\/p>\n<p>That was when a prominent county businessman named W.B. Johnson turned from respected community member to notorious outlaw. This tale unfolds with a fateful meeting involving Johnson, two women, and a tragic dispute that escalated into a deadly confrontation.<br \/>\nThis is a story of tragedy, madness, and the dark side of Appalachia. <\/p>\n<p>Thanks for watching!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In this special YouTube only bonus episode of Stories of Appalachia, we tell the story of a shocking event in January 1927 in Jefferson County, Tennessee. That was when a prominent county businessman named W.B. Johnson turned from respected community member to notorious outlaw. This tale unfolds with a fateful meeting involving Johnson, two women, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[58,11,12],"tags":[849,368,859,852,853,625,371,698,855,846,857,856,854,858,851,850,848,847],"class_list":["post-3379","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-court","category-crime","category-the-roaring-20s","tag-1927-murders","tag-appalachian-stories","tag-community-impact","tag-courtroom-drama","tag-crime-and-punishment","tag-family-tragedy","tag-historical-crime","tag-historical-events","tag-insanity-plea","tag-jefferson-county","tag-law-enforcement","tag-love-affair","tag-mental-health","tag-national-guard","tag-standoff","tag-tennessee-outlaw","tag-true-crime","tag-w-b-johnson"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6TX4A-Sv","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/storiesofappalachia.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3379","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/storiesofappalachia.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/storiesofappalachia.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/storiesofappalachia.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/storiesofappalachia.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3379"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/storiesofappalachia.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3379\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3381,"href":"https:\/\/storiesofappalachia.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3379\/revisions\/3381"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/storiesofappalachia.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3379"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/storiesofappalachia.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3379"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/storiesofappalachia.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3379"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}