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Word: hillstrom (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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Twenty-two months later, Joe Hillstrom was taken out like Don Jesse Neal, and the firing squad's bullets were plugged into the target over his heart-and a ballad was born that has warmed the hearts of millions of union...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: UTAH: Tales of the Firing Squad | 7/11/1955 | See Source »

...most celebrated of Neal's predecessors was Joe Hillstrom, writer of ballads and doughty organizer of Utah copper unions for the I.W.W. before World War I. Joe Hillstrom was convicted of murdering a grocer in a holdup, but the comrades of his union insisted to the end that he was framed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: UTAH: Tales of the Firing Squad | 7/11/1955 | See Source »

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