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Paramount news special! Lynchings shock nation!

This newsreel covers the mob violence that led to the lynching of Thomas Thurmond and John Holmes on the evening of November 26-27, 1933, who had been convicted in the killing of Brooke Hart. It is followed by news coverage of a mob in Salisbury, Maryland on November 28, 1933, that clashed with the state militia that was attempting to arrest four men who had been accused of lynching a man.

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