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Man Alive: The Mood of America: 2: Clarkesville, Pennsylvania

on BBC Two England

Reporters Jim Douglas Henry, Jeremy James, Jeanne La Chard, Gillian Strickland, Desmond Wilcox, Harold Williamson

Jo Yablonski, his wife and his daughter, were killed in their Clarkesville home. Yablonski, a trade union leader in this troubled coal-mining area, stood out as a lone voice against unjust management and corrupt trade union practices. He was silenced by a gang of hired killers in the most savage moment of a long and angry history of industrial strife and corruption.
Sympathisers for his cause fight on against callous employers and a suspect union. Wild-cat strikers picketing for the resignation of their own union president carry guns. Union officials protest their innocence, and Yablonski's grown-up sons insist on their guilt.
The mood on both sides is one of anger and fear; and in the middle the vast majority of mineworkers who want only to earn their money in peace.

Contributors

Producer:
David Filkin
Editor:
Desmond Wilcox
Editor:
Bill Morton

BBC Two England

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