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Tuesday, January 24, 2017 9:47:28 PM
JD - So sorry to hear of your loss, but be comforted by knowing your excellent scholarship and contributions to this board (and others) honors him and all his fellow miners. These are the men that had to defy private "detectives" and federal troops just to organize the UMW for a living wage. They were assassinated for their efforts.
"... on August 1, 1921, unarmed and accompanied by their wives. Several Baldwin-Felts men (private "detectives") shot them on the McDowell County Courthouse steps. Hit in the arm, and three or four times in the chest, Hatfield died instantly.[5] Chambers was shot several more times, as his wife tried to defend him, and finished off with a bullet in the head by Charles Everett Lively.[6] None of the Baldwin-Felts detectives was ever convicted of Hatfield's assassination: they claimed they had acted "in self-defense..."
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sid_Hatfield
"... on August 1, 1921, unarmed and accompanied by their wives. Several Baldwin-Felts men (private "detectives") shot them on the McDowell County Courthouse steps. Hit in the arm, and three or four times in the chest, Hatfield died instantly.[5] Chambers was shot several more times, as his wife tried to defend him, and finished off with a bullet in the head by Charles Everett Lively.[6] None of the Baldwin-Felts detectives was ever convicted of Hatfield's assassination: they claimed they had acted "in self-defense..."
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sid_Hatfield
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