A Molly Maguire Story: Revised Edition

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On June 21, 1877, ten Irish-Americans were executed in the mining areas of Pennsylvania. All were accused of being members of a terror-ist group called the Molly Maguires, and all were convicted of planning and carrying out the murder of a variety of mining officials. Ten more Irish-Americans were executed in Pennsylvania in the next 18 months on the same charges. One of the crucial men executed on June 21, 1877, used to be Alexander Campbell, grand-uncle of the writer. The Molly Maguire executions generated a substantial amount of contro-versy in Pennsylvania from the 1870s to the present, with Irish-Americans claiming the Mollies were framed by the mine owners, at the same time as some other ethnicĀ· groups consider that they were guilty as charged and deserved the punishment they received. The writer first heard about the execution of his grand-uncle back in the late 1940s in Dungloe, County Donegal, Ireland, and in the early 1970s, at the same time as living in New Jersey, began a fifteen year investiga-tion into all the Molly Maguire controversy to be able to resolve if Alexander Campbell used to be guilty or innocent. A Molly Maguire Story is an account of that investigation.

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