THE FILM THAT EXPOSED A MEMORIAL DAY MASSACRE

Story ID:	2184
Written by:	Dick Meister (bio, link, contact, other stories)
Story type:	Story
Location:	Chicago Ill. USA
Year:	1937

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Posted 05/28/2007 10:06 by Nancy J. Kopp | Reply

Very interesting piece, and appropriate for this particular day. I was born and raised in Chicago area and did not know about this event. The Valentine's Day Massacre is the one usually brought up in Chicago's dark past. But the one you wrote about today happnened two years before I was born, so that's my excuse for not knowing about it. :)

Posted 05/28/2007 22:30 by Dick Meister | Reply

Thanks for your email, and don't forget those other bloody anti-labor events in Chicago's history, at Haymarket Square in 1886.

Posted 05/29/2007 11:11 by Dick Meister | Reply

PS: I wrote of the Haymarket Square violence in the OurEcho piece, "The Real May Day."
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