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1961 Ozark Breakaway: The Year McDonald County Seceded From Missouri
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About 1961 Ozark Breakaway: The Year McDonald County
On April 12, 1961, exactly one hundred years after the start of the Civil War, McDonald County, Missouri (named after Revolutionary War hero Pvt. Alexander B. McDonald) submitted legal papers on the floor of the Missouri Senate at the State House to secede from Missouri and form a fifty first state of the union to be comprised of McDonald County Missouri, Benton County Arkansas and Delaware County Oklahoma. The decision to secede from their home state of Missouri in 1961 was not a publicity stunt when it began. It was the result of people whose livelihoods were compromised and forced to take matters into their own hands. Nevertheless, it was to be a good-natured fight with no animosity against the State of Missouri. Through an adroit use of humor and whimsy the news spread literally overnight to become a national sensation with international exposure. Even the Kennedy Administration took notice when it informed popular The Ozark Mountaineer magazine, “in the interest of national security to withdraw support and thus prevent the separation movement from becoming nationwide in scope and unmanageable.” Learn the documented story behind this extraordinary event. For the first time in sixty years this factual story is told by one of the few remaining players, when the author was sixteen years old in 1961 and owing to his family’s weekly newspaper found himself an active participant with a front row seat before, during and after the secession.
