Fremont Older and the 1916 San Francisco Bombing
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Fremont Older and the 1916 San Francisco Bombing

A Tireless Crusade for Justice

  1. 192 pages
  2. English
  3. ePUB (mobile friendly)
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - ePub

Fremont Older and the 1916 San Francisco Bombing

A Tireless Crusade for Justice

About this book

On Saturday, July 22, 1916, as "Preparedness Day" parade units assembled south of San Francisco's Market Street, a terrorist bomb exploded, killing ten people and wounding forty. San Francisco was outraged. Instead of searching for the perpetrators, however, the district attorney used the bombing as an excuse to arrest, try and convict two obscure labor figures without evidence. Author John C. Ralston chronicles the dramatic events following the initial tragedy as newspaper editor Fremont Older discovers the case is based on blatant perjury and exposes the secondary crime to the public. What became known as the "American Dreyfus Case" led to an international outcry, finally resulting in one defendant's pardon and the other's parole--but only after both men had been imprisoned for twenty-three years..

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Table of contents

  1. Front Cover
  2. Title Page
  3. Copyright
  4. Contents
  5. Preface
  6. Introduction: “The American Dreyfus Case”
  7. San Francisco in 1916
  8. War Abroad, War at Home
  9. Billings and Mooney
  10. Saturday, July 22, 1916: Preparedness Day
  11. Arrests
  12. Trials
  13. The Oxman Letters
  14. Billings-Mooney Becomes International
  15. The Densmore Report
  16. The Cases Drag On and On and On
  17. The Newsboy Who Became a Lawyer
  18. 1939: Free at Last
  19. Epilogue
  20. Bibliography
  21. About the Author