Commission on Industrial Relations

Rockefeller Testifies Before Walsh Commission: Three Days of Public Humiliation Over Ludlow Massacre

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John D. Rockefeller Jr. endured three days of grueling public testimony before the U.S. Commission on Industrial Relations, chaired by Progressive lawyer Frank Walsh, regarding the April 1914 Ludlow Massacre in which Colorado National Guard troops and private guards employed by Rockefeller’s …

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