Wyoming's Casper Star-Tribune, April 2, 1996:

An article about Rodney Skurdal, a leader of the Montana Freemen, claims that he was involved in an accident in 1980 "when a rig tower collapsed" and fractured his skull.

According to U.S. District Court records, several witnesses were prepared to testify that Skurdal's behavior changed drastically after the accident.

Leonard Atkins of Billings, Mont., his gunnery sergeant in the Marines, told Skurdal's attorneys that after the accident he was "preoccupied with constitutional rights."

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