{"id":2230,"date":"2010-05-12T15:20:02","date_gmt":"2010-05-12T20:20:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.discoverclarksville.com\/articles\/?p=2230"},"modified":"2010-05-12T12:31:32","modified_gmt":"2010-05-12T17:31:32","slug":"remembering-our-fallen-officers-kermit-leonard-nipple","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.discoverclarksville.com\/articles\/2010\/05\/12\/remembering-our-fallen-officers-kermit-leonard-nipple\/","title":{"rendered":"Remembering our fallen Officers &#8211; Kermit Leonard Nipple"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><em>Clarksville&#8217;s first Police Officer killed in the line of Duty<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft\" title=\"Clarksville Police Department Logo\" src=\"http:\/\/www.clarksvilleonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/02\/clarksvillepolicelogo.jpg\" alt=\"CPD Logo\" width=\"200\" height=\"200\" \/>On or about February 5th, 1943, Leonard Nipple was appointed patrolman with the Clarksville Police Department under Chief John Balthrop.\u00a0 Officer Nipple came here from Kansas. He was considered a good officer, fearless, dependable and had the respect of the entire police force, receiving the nickname of \u201cCowboy\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>The morning of August 9th, 1945, a fire broke out at the Clarksville Laundry which became so intense it melted and shattered windows of a number of other businesses across 3<sup>rd<\/sup> Street.\u00a0 Officer Nipple responded with firefighters to the scene. \u00a0He was standing with the firefighters in the doorway of the laundry\u2019s boiler room when a wall collapsed and Officer Nipple and Firefighter Marshall Hodge were struck by falling brick. \u00a0Officer Nipple succumbed to his injuries and died.\u00a0 Firefighter Hodge was taken to the hospital, treated and released.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>In an editorial from The Clarksville Leaf Chronicle, it was said of Officer Nipple:\u00a0 \u201cHis last act was typical of him, a willingness to do his duty, regardless of risk to life.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>He was buried in Medicine Lodge, Kansas. One of the first acts under new Chief Al Ansley, the family of Leonard Nipple received recognition of this officer\u2019s last act as a police officer.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Clarksville&#8217;s first Police Officer killed in the line of Duty On or about February 5th, 1943, Leonard Nipple was appointed patrolman with the Clarksville Police Department under Chief John Balthrop.\u00a0 Officer Nipple came here from Kansas. He was considered a good officer, fearless, dependable and had the respect of the entire police force, receiving the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[5],"tags":[2058,2054,2056,294,2053,2052,2055,2057],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4xGYI-zY","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.discoverclarksville.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2230"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.discoverclarksville.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.discoverclarksville.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.discoverclarksville.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.discoverclarksville.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2230"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.discoverclarksville.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2230\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2233,"href":"https:\/\/www.discoverclarksville.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2230\/revisions\/2233"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.discoverclarksville.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2230"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.discoverclarksville.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2230"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.discoverclarksville.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2230"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}