California lynching - kidnapping
Digital Commonwealth — Boston Public Library

California lynching - kidnapping

Jones, Leslie, 1886-1967 · November 27, 1933

CC0 — Public Domain
Digital Commonwealth — Boston Public Library

Jail After Lynch Mob Breaks In. Police officers look at the 30 foot lengths of pipe that the lynch mob used as battering rams to break down the two iron doors of the jail, San Jose, California, November 27, 1933. The officers' efforts to save the kidnapers, John Holmes and Thomas Thurmond, from the mob were futile.

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