The Battle of Athens was an armed rebellion led by WWII veterans and citizens in Athens and Etowah, Tennessee, United States, against the tyrannical local government in August 1946.
My mother heard this on the radio the day after the elections in the 1930s. The night before the Democratic primary in Tennessee a local politician challenged an incumbent politician.
He said that his opponent and his wife were doing evil things in Washington DC. He was a heterosexual and his wife was a practicing thespian.