The Calumet Christmas Tragedy (1913) w/ Erik Loomis
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The Woody Guthrie Song
The violence and brutality all around, i think, is the thing that really resonates. I am curious kind of how much the fact that the central brutality of this question pany thugs actually bar the doors to create a stampede and create a tragedy, it is so at the heart of the woody guthrie song. And i wonder if the fact that that's in dispute maybe does get in the way of an understanding of all the other sort of brutality that we that we certainly know occurred and was documented. If guthrie exaggerates this, and i don't, i don't doubt that he believed it, a idon't think there's a real negative to this.
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