Category: Molly Maguires
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John Kehoe, the Last of the “Molly Maguires,” is Executed in Pennsylvania. December 18, 1878.
Image: John “Black Jack” Kehoe (Public Domain) On this day in history, December 18, 1878, John Kehoe, the last of the “Molly Maguires,” is executed in Pennsylvania. The Molly Maguires, an Irish secret society that had purportedly been accountable for some vigilante justice occurrences in eastern Pennsylvania’s coalfields, upheld their acts as efforts to protect…
History Daily With Francis Chappell Black 