George Bankhead

Released
Gender:Male
Race:White
Era:1930s
State:Kansas
Support
Labor Organizing
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Biography

George Bankhead was one of ten CIO Mine, Mill and Smelter Workers charged with murder after a vigilante attack on their union hall at Galena, Kansas in 1937.

Case

Charges: Charged with murder.
Arrested: 1937
Sentence: Held for trial; defended by the ILD. Charges as recorded: Charged with murder after a vigilante attack on the Mine-Mill union hall at Galena, Kansas.
Convicted: Held on murder charges, 1937

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