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The Lattimer Massacre

Season 10 Episode 6 | 7m 10s

The film reveals how rising union pressure, anti immigrant hostility, and unchecked power collided on September 10, 1897. What began as an unarmed march for fair working conditions ended in gunfire, a whitewashed trial, and decades of collective amnesia, until the graves make the story impossible to ignore.

Aired: 03/24/26
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See strange concrete bunkers hidden in wooded central PA and the forgotten town that came before.
The Stourbridge Lion became the first steam locomotive to operate on rails in the U.S.
Experience works of art that capture the daily lives of coal miners and the coal industry.
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