Boston Molasses Disaster | The Legend and the Legacy | 2
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The Rise and Fall of Anarchism in Boston
After the rescue and recovery very quickly people started pointing fingers The victims eventually took the United States industrial alcohol company to court over the loss of life and property. Company's defense attorney Charles Choate tried to take advantage of newspaper headlines throughout the country about a growing anarchist movement. He pointed to anarchists across the United States but in Boston in particular too as a violent insurrectionists who could have been responsible for the destruction of the tank.
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