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Saturday, October 17, 2026 at 1:45 PM

Looking back at the Ludlow Massacre

By Robert Forrant/The Johnstown Breeze

On a spring morning in 1914, miners in Ludlow, Colorado, were celebrating Greek Easter when the Colorado National Guard and a private security agency opened fire on their camp with a machine-gun-equipped armored car called the Death Special.

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