This still-notorious lynching — America’s seminal lynching for the broadcast media era — has been portrayed several times on the silver screen.
On this day..
- 1954: Jonas Žemaitis, Lithuanian Forest Brother
- 1766: John Clark and James Felton
- 1736: James Matthews and Elizabeth Greenley
- 1936: Vladimir Mutnykh, Bolshoi director
- 2009: Hu Minghua and Su Binde, child abductors
- 1948: Hans Karl Möser, for rocketry
- 1678: William Staley, "the prologue to the bloody tragedy"
- 1937: Peljidiin Genden, former Mongolia Prime Minister
- Daily Double: Stalinism east to west
- 1940: Jilava Massacre
- 1600: Hansel Pappenheimer, following his family
- 1849: Sheikh Bouzian, defending Zaatcha
- 1919: Felipe Angeles
JCF, I highly recommend you read the book about the case: “Swift Justice” by Harry Farrell.
I’m a native Northern Californian, and I’ve never heard of this case before! Utterly disgraceful. The governor should have been hung…in effigy.