Death
Lt. Matt Rice of the Faulkner County Sheriff's Office reported that Johnson was found dead about 10 a.m. Saturday, February 13, 2010, at his home off Beaverfork Lake with a self-inflicted gunshot wound to the chest. Rice said a rifle was found, and authorities had no reason to suspect foul play. Johnson reportedly had ongoing medical problems. The Johnsons had three sons, Mark of Little Rock, John David of Fayetteville, and Joseph Daniel of Conway.
Johnson's life story and death were remarkably similar to that of an unrepentant segregationist leader in Louisiana, William M. Rainach of Claiborne Parish, a state legislator and an unsuccessful gubernatorial candidate in his state's 1959 primary election.
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