YESTERDAY’S NEWS --Tales of classic scandals, scoundrels and scourges told from historic newspapers in the golden age of yellow journalism...The Herrin Coal Mine Massacre___Episode 136 comes by way of a request from Herrin, Illinois, where a True Crime Historian listener Chris Baines wanted to know more about some hometown dark history, about the time a local mining company imported 50 guys from Chicago to bust a strike, 25 men to ship the coal that had been dug, and 25 men to stand guard with rifles and a machine gun to make sure the work got done. Yeah. That’s not gonna end well.___PlaylistIf you liked this episode, here are a few others about social unrest and/or rivalries gone too far.Revenge of the Anarchists (Part 1: Crime)Revenge of the Anarchist (Part 2: Punishment)A Deadly Family FeudMystery at the American SaloonThe Demented Dynamiter of Bath___Theme Music by Dave SamsMedia management by Sean R. JonesProduction assistance by Emily Simer Braun___bit.ly/1922herrin