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Vor 5 Tagen · Still, I did not know of his intimate connection to one of the most shocking historical incidents in his Chicago until I began research for my new PBS film and companion book, both titled, Memorial Day Massacre: Workers Die, Film Buried. They explore the 1937 tragedy in South Chicago near the old Republic Steel plant when police shot forty strikers and their supporters (hitting most of them in ...
Vor 5 Tagen · As I have written in the past: It explores the murder of ten steel strikers and labor activists (most shot in the back) during a Memorial Day march in Chicago in 1937. And then, how the only film footage of the tragedy was suppressed until a muckraking reporter and crusading U.S. Senator brought it to light.
Vor 4 Tagen · Proto-Germanic, in fact, had two nouns derived from this word, later merging into the modern English noun: *murþrą "death, killing, murder" (directly from Proto-Indo-European*mŕ̥-trom), whence Old English morðor "secret or unlawful killing of a person, murder; mortal sin, crime; punishment, torment, misery"; and *murþrijô "murderer; homicide" (from the verb *murþrijaną "to murder ...
Vor 2 Tagen · Greg Mitchell, who has made a film about this massacre, further explains that a wave of labor actions swept through the country beginning in 1935. The largest steel company, U.S. Steel, had been able to avoid a strike, but workers in the “Little Steel” companies – more than 70,000 of them, declared a strike in late May, 1937. One such strike was brought against Republic Steel in South ...
Vor 4 Tagen · Shubhabrata Dutta. Updated May 28, 2024. Injustice revelations, corrupt systems, politicians, and plot twists can make you rewind the entire film to a certain point because you missed one tiny dialogue. Courtroom movies are like that.
Vor einem Tag · Don King killed two men. The first case was ruled justifiable homicide. Then in 1967 he was found guilty of stomping to death an employee, Sam Garrett, on the street. Garret owed him $600 ...
Vor 2 Tagen · A Cook County Coroner ’ s Jury ruled the deaths that day as justifiable homicide. Not only was no action taken against any of the police involved that day, but senior officers were commended and promoted. The truth about what happened was very nearly suppressed, as so many atrocities committed against working people had been.
