“The only limit to our realization of tomorrow will be our doubts of today.” -Franklin D. Roosevelt Always FREE! Your source for local news and entertainment INSIDE... June 24 - 25, 2020 • Vol. 1, Issue 102 Daisy Award: Cox Branson recognizes three nurses. Page 2 Frogging season: Starts June 30. Page 8 Demonstrators clash on Hwy. 76 in Branson on Sunday afternoon. (Branson Globe photo by Jay Mejia) Black Lives Matter clashes with Dixie defenders on 76 Strip By Jay Mejia Special News Correspondent Two steel rails of a handicap ‘God help us’: Act against Wallace at Talledaga. Page 12 WEATHER...page 12 Highs around 90. Chance of showers and storms on Sunday. ramp outside the Dixie Outfitters store on Father’s Day became battleground central for race relations between blacks and whites in Branson, and America at large. On a Sunday marked to honor men who raise families, tensions boiled. Demonstrators stood on both sides of the steel rail barriers taunting counter demonstrators. A video captured a woman, Kathy Jenkins of Branson, spewing hateful words and invoking the Ku Klux Klan. The video has since gone viral on social media, painting Branson, a tourist mecca, as a racist town, Jenkins’ Facebook page is still up. She’s been receiving dozens of hate posts from across the country. Apparently her daughter tried to apologize, saying their mistake was saying anything in front of a camera. “Although occasionally emotions were raised, demonstrators were cooperative with Branson Police in efforts to maintain a peaceful event,” a City of Branson spokesperson for the police department said. “There were no arrests made during the demonstration.” On the sidewalks and grassy slope overlooking the store in the 1800 block of W. 76 Country Blvd. about 100 demonstrators made a cry of protest for Black Lives Matter, chanting slogans, banging drums and using bullhorns to argue loudly for social justice. “It’s time for change,” said Charlie Bahn of Aurora. “I am a white person who supports Black Lives Matter.” Protesters, one who declined to be identified, said they came to Branson to protest against the appearance of the Confederate flag and sales of its likeness on other items. SEE PROTEST, PAGE 3
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