Joe Hill Film Show

Tuesday evening, January 24th, at the Electron Club, Centre
 for Contemporary Arts, Sauchiehall Street, Glasgow, the Clydeside General
Membership Brach will be showing the 1998 US documentary 'Joe Hill',
dir. Ken Verdoia. It's an 87-minute feature on the life, trial and
death of Joe Hill/Joel Emmanuel Hägglund (1879-1915), Swedish Wobbly
songwriter (one of the best-loved contributors to the Little Red
Songbook) and cartoonist, shot by firing squad in Salt Lake City on a
highly questionable (to put it mildly) murder charge.

Discussion to continue in the café downstairs afterwards, including
an update on the case, since new evidence was published only last
year re: Joe's alibi, the mystery girlfriend, and on the career of
the real chief suspect, Magnus Olson, aka Frank Z Wilson (and at
least a dozen other aliases).
best wishes for the OBU,
Marianne

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