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Concert, Radio Show To Honor Labor & Songwriter Icon Joe Hill
['Steve Baker', 'Kvmr Board', 'Kvmr Broadcasters']
KVMR Community Radio
Exactly 100 years ago this month, iconic labor activist and songwriter Joe Hill was killed by a firing squad in Salt Lake City for the murder of a grocer and his son.
That came after appeals for clemency from the American Federation of Labor, U.S. President Woodrow Wilson, the ambassador from Sweden (where Hill was born) and many others, according to musical historian and social justice activist George Mann.
“There is little doubt today that Joe Hill was framed for the crime because he was a foreigner and a well-known labor activist,” Mann says.
They’ll join Mann, Rovics and Chandler for a 6:30 p.m. show and the first live radio broadcast of the tour Sunday 7 p.m. to 9 p.m. on KVMR.
The tour ends up, well, when and where else but Salt Lake City on November 20th, the day after the execution anniversary.
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