Daniel Masse Interview, February 14, 1988
Daniel Masse talks with Jon Jerome Warman about his early life in the military abroad as well as his political activism in Missoula and the surrounding area after he returned to the states. He remembers the absolute poverty and fear of citizens in Japan and Germany where he served and traveled shortly after World War Two. He then transitions into speaking on his work in local politics in Missoula in the 1970s. He details his time in leading Citizens against Mansfield in order to retain gun rights, as well as his struggle in court about the state encroaching on his property for public works projects. He also recalled working as a part of the Posse Comitatus, an armed citizen-organized militia, which advocated for the rights of citizens to arrest citizens as well as operate as a checks and balances system to local sheriff's offices. ; https://scholarworks.umt.edu/mtpolitics_oralhistory/1012/thumbnail.jpg