Was Joe Hill, a famous American socialist songwriter, guilty of the murder for which he was executed in 1915? William Adler, an investigative historian, delivers a controversial verdict. Hill, he declares, was probably innocent, but came to welcome a dramatic death—by a firing squad in Utah. By then Hill had concluded that he was worth more dead than alive to his friends in the Industrial Workers of the World (iww), a revolutionary labour movement known as "the Wobblies", and so spurned all chances of a pardon.
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