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Part Two: The Haymarket Affair: The Bomb & the Eight-Hour Workday

Cool People Who Did Cool Stuff

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The Anarchists

A grand jury indicted ten of them to stand trial. None of the eight defendants were accused of actually throwing the bomb. The judge who oversaw it was completely committed to conviction, rather than obeying the law. And we know all this because later, the governor of illinois wrote a pardon for everyone who left any just it's a 17 thousand word pardon.

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