THE NEW YORK TIMES, ​Aug. 2 & 3, 1946  

* Ballot Box Standoff in Athens, Tennessee
* Veterans fight Government Corruption at the Ballot Box

The front page of both issues have coverage including Aug. 2 with an incorrect story: "Tennessee Sheriff Is Slain In Primary Day Violence", with more coverage on pg. 6. Aug. 3 has "Armed Veterans Run Town After Tennessee Bloodshed" with additional coverage on pg. 3.

Both issues are in very good condition, printed on rag paper with small binding holes on the spine.

Background: The Battle of Athens holds profound historical significance as a rare, successful instance of armed domestic insurrection in 20th-century America where citizens used force to violently overthrow a corrupt local government and restore democratic integrity. For years, the entrenched political machine in McMinn County had weaponized law enforcement, subverted elections, and systematically extorted returning World War II veterans. When these veterans turned to the ballot box to enact peaceful change, only to face armed intimidation and overt ballot-stealing, they viewed taking up arms not as a rejection of American democracy, but as a last-resort defense of it—interpreting their actions as a literal fulfillment of the Second Amendment and their patriotic duty to overthrow tyranny at home just as they had abroad. The event captured national headlines on August 2 & 3rd, 1946, serving as a jarring wake-up call regarding the volatility of post-war veteran reintegration and proving that the combat-hardened generation of WWII would violently resist systemic corruption rather than allow their constitutional rights to be stripped away on American soil.