The Walsh Commission and the Ludlow Massacre

The Ludlow Massacre happened in 1914 which was smack in the middle of the hearings. John D. Rockefeller Jr. had denied under oath that he knew anything about it. The Walsh Commission spent three days with Rockefeller and held 154 days of hearings total over the course of two years. Along with Guggenheim, Carnegie and Rockefeller, critics like labor activist Mother Jones, future Supreme Court Justice, Louis Brandeis,. journalist Ida Tarbell and Stan's grandfather-in-law took the stand.