The Franklin Cover-up
This documentary was made by Yorkshire Television but it got pulled when lawyers won a court battle on behalf of those accused. All copies of the film were ordered to be destroyed too, but this rough unedited version later turned up on YouTube.
To be accused of a terrible crime you didn't do is a horrendous thing, so you always have to be careful about this sort of thing.
John Decamp - who was a Republican politician and a lawyer - did all the original research.
I think you will find it to be one of the most fascinating and disturbing documentaries you've ever seen.
Nebraska, what do you expect :(
ReplyDeleteThe Greek Town riot was a race riot in South Omaha, Nebraska on February 21, 1909.[1] A mob of 3,000 men killed a Greek boy, displaced the entire population of Greek Town, and burned down the Greek neighborhood in South Omaha.[2]
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greek_Town_riot
I think the protestants were afraid that the Greek men were going to defile their women, or something like that.
The Italians didn't fare much better either:
The March 14, 1891, New Orleans lynchings were the murders of 11 Italian Americans in New Orleans, Louisiana, by a mob for their alleged role in the murder of city police chief David Hennessy after some of them had been acquitted at trial. It was one of the largest single mass lynchings in American history.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/March_14,_1891_New_Orleans_lynchings