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Salt Lake City’s history is full of bruising fights between ...
Clash of the Titans
On March 21, 1960, then-Salt Lake City Mayor J. Bracken Lee introduced a motion to fire the city’s chief of police, W. Cleon Skousen. After just three months of working together, tension between the two men had become untenable. Both Lee and Skousen were conservative iconoclasts who had spoken highly of each other.
But they reportedly came into conflict as Lee endeavored to tighten city finances and push back against what he saw as an escalation of police power. Skousen’s ousting took the city by storm and threatened Lee’s political standing as protesters revolted against his administration.
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