victor809 wrote:Shouldn't his innocence/guilt be a kind of important fact considering he was lynched by a mob which eventually became the KKK?
Yes
Scratch that... guilty/innocent, the mob took it upon themselves to lynch a guy which the government had deemed didn't have enough evidence to put to death.
Yes
The irony in the whole thing is that apparently a number of historians believe the evidence points to some black guy.
So they say . . .
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If you're trying to bait me into an argument over a crime that was committed 100 years ago, it wont happen.
Again, just discussing history.
Not taking *any* side in that of which I do not have a part of.
It happened. And it happened here.
If you really want to get in the meat of the story of the lynch mob, it is quite interesting how they pulled it off.
I've heard from some people that they swear he molested some boys, too. But I've never read anything in regards to that story . . .