Pulaski, Tennessee the vicinity of Pulaski was the site of a number of skirmishes during the Franklin–Nashville Campaign. Union troops occupied the state from 1862. In 1863, Confederate courier Sam Davis was hanged in Pulaski by the Union Army on suspicion of espionage. In late 1865, during the early days of the Reconstruction Era, the city was the site of founding the first Ku Klux Klan (KKK) by six Tennessee veterans of the Confederate Army. John C. Lester, John B. Kennedy, James R. Crowe, Frank O. McCord, Richard R. Reed, and J. Calvin Jones established the KKK in Pulaski on December 25,
Pulaski Skyway radio, film, television, and at least one video game. In the 1938 radio drama "The War of the Worlds", one of the Martian machines straddles the skyway (a scene replicated in the 2005 film wherein the first machine appears in the shadow of the bridge). It was featured in the 1979 film "Hair". Alfred Hitchcock's 1943 film "Shadow of a Doubt" and the 1999–2007 television drama "The Sopranos" include shots of the bridge in the opening montages. Clutch included the track "Pulaski Skyway" on its 2005 release "Robot Hive/Exodus." Footnotes Works cited Pulaski Skyway The Pulaski Skyway is a four-lane