In one of The Dollop's darker episodes, Dave Anthony and Gareth Reynolds examine political boss Tom Dennison and The Omaha Race Riot.
This is an unofficial transcript meant for reference. Accuracy is not guaranteed.
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old, sixties, music and then there are genuine banging on the side of there's. A bank party was a bank part outside by bank party. We're not talking about the pool party.
Yeah, I know, but now the pool party then just turn it on october, twenty sixth eighteen, fifty eight that might be a little loud. How long you think that's going to go on okay, so we have moved
we are away from the room with a bang on the window. Huge thing
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you re tom denizen, was born in delhi, our daily nice. He was the third of eight children of irish irish immigrants, John and Anna Denison.
Eighteen, sixty the denizens moved to a farm in dakota, counting nebraska. The elder, Dennis
There remained there the rest of his life. During that time, you took an active part in the life of this community.
owning a modest but successful farm and serving in several minor elective posts. Well, thank you for a story. Davis
to have me round listening one of our best yep Tom Tom.
Two fifteen and return to our tom spent six years
as a farm labour in montana and mills counties there? He wants one, a contest for the county corn husking championship. What what
don't even meet that. What is it it's just? Removing the pieces of corn or no that's just taking the has gotta get more husk off, and that makes sense why they call it that yeah, it's essentially cleaning the corn, the fast it's right in the name cornhusking. You don't need to look at me like that,
in nice in eighteen, seventy nine denison left iowa inside adventure farther west. He worked at a blacksmithing establishment in Kansas.
Prospect in colorado and railroading in new mexico. My living at the cocoa
oh colorado, mining camp. He shot and wounded a man for any particular reason confined up Jesus. The guy deserve it
it sounds like you're, a little gung ho, he then move to leadville and became a floor. Walker at the texas, okay guy,
alright? So we know what cornhusking is
for walking
was the town's largest and most most notorious gambling hall. Oh okay, so floor walking would be kind of just like managing the floor, a little bit, keeping an eye on the field making sure no one's doing like a pitbull. The business may get a pet shitty yeah shitty much shadier. During this period, Denison showed a knack for taking advantage of business opportunities and, within a short time rose from bouncer to owner of a quarter interest in the texas. He then saw that using his prophets to purchased part ownership.
Let those opera house next, he started the old arcade in denver, which would be the first of a chain of gambling houses in the rocky mountains area in nitrogen in aid,
Ninety two at the age of thirty four he settled in omaha denison, was an imposing figures, six feet tall into interpol
always immaculate dressed and usually wearing large flawless diamonds. Woe there's just thing: it is a pimp
die. The diamond look really just screams, I suppose a straight up to four
ass of denison, show man with cold penetrating eyes, who often have to
I smiled playing at the corners of his mouth. He had a deep voice with a slight speed,
impediment then only surfaced when he was tense. That's interesting
fuck you you look around here, that's great right to just be like you, I can't I don't like the way that guy's look at me. Excuse me for a second tv show
It is therefore a problem you have with me this. Did you wanna tatum either? If you keep look at me,
for me. What you deal is I told you to do it. If you look at anyway,
Sorry about that aiming to lose my cool, it's just that finance all with the problem of the guy. I don't like the way
looked at me: oh my hard recently going through an economic boom and was on them was
was that one of the new leading agricultural and meet packing towns in the mid west to her, but most
only for tom, the city had a semi side, this activity,
was centred in the third ward and was responsible for the sick,
Being called the wicked is sitting in the united states Jesus and a wide open town.
The third more gain notoriety through its saloons gambling den street games and brothels. Drifters swim.
There's gamble as prostitutes and criminals compromised.
Significant segment of its population, the police, with the exception of a rare obligatory crackdown, generally ignored the districts activities,
city fathers looked upon, the area as a necessary evil sounds like peaky blinders. So far I haven't seen that
well you're here and about it a little girl just an area where
just seems. Lawless and yet you can do whatever the fuck. You want
because the third word so goes. The city was the sang. The war games
Daniel more majorities to candidates and elections, can its mother precincts of the city could rarely match the votes.
The third ward Denison only needed to further so consulted
it and organize the ward and it's activities under his control to make himself supreme and that's what he quickly did K. A power vacuum had recently been created when the big four charles gibbons harem kennedy, charles white and jack Morrison, who had run the third ward for years, suddenly disappeared after a police crackdown.
Denison was there to fill the void point diamond denison in november of nineteen. If surf november. Eighteen, ninety two denison established a gambling house in an alley near fourteenth and dodge from which he ran it.
policy game, an illegal form of lottery, popular among low income classes and within a few years he in his brother John, had opened branch shops in south africa and across the state line east
These three dan's form the most successful enterprises of their kind in the city. During this period, denizen form connections through so
the partnerships with other, so a saloon casinos cliff causes brought by Billy nestle house and was it was renamed budweiser,
Whoa Jesus on a bar named cliff calls, which is a good name for a bar yeah and he renamed the budweiser. Well, I mean in red
it was a brilliant name for a bar. We know the fucking deal would be crazy if it was before Budweiser yeah that'd be just a budweiser served as Denison's headquarters by the early nineteen hundreds Dennison had established his ward machine. The key lieutenant believed nestle house became the business brains of the organization and coordinated various
Vice activities from the budweiser denizen recognise the importance of minority support made sure these groups had representatives within the machine, for instance,
unless the black man to help him purchase a brothel with denizens help. He got police protection and ran that district. If there were any disagreements, denisov europe would replace
The black man with another to run the district
So he just sounds so it gets smaller and they vote the way he wants. Yeah, it's all good to go. Jack bloomfield ran the area for many years as
This is why machine rose and power, so did the amount of vice and newspapers began to notice. Among the rogues frequently reported to be in the city where the
John c made bray gang. A group of I was swindlers, Patrick
ro a train want robert kidnapper and fainting bertha liberty,
get it was swimming in front of her unsuspecting victims and then picking their pockets when they came to our aid
mean that one has gotta get old fast. I saw you yesterday, bitch. I saw you favour yesterday, bertha between negative five and eighteen fifty noma the grace and
in training establishments of any city in the nation around fuck you
nineteen ten, there were an estimated one hundred brothels and two thousand five hundred prostitutes in the city, two thousand prostitutes
how many people there doesn't that's just so many whores, that's
and you know what else is there like? I don't want to be gross go ahead, but they're not you know clean. It's the pull out method. If anything,
and this time right, there's not lay mainly did have what they put like lead
skin on I don't of the commons at that point, but yeah. It's not that it's not a good! I'm not saying like
when the whores now is a great option. It's not a good time to put your penis in a random vagina. Nor is it a good time to have a random penis in your vagina yeah. It's either way yeah you're going to end up with syphilis yeah god
your nose, a fallen log into reality.
There was estimated the yearly average income from me
brothels was seventeen million seven hundred and sixty thousand dollars
we've just always loved to fuck,
it just in the feed
will run out of water. The one thing will be consistent were looking to fuck we're. Fucked people were fuck, we like to fuck.
On the same day, in nineteen fourteen that a grand jury reported finding no examples of harley tree in the city, a street rocker was quoted by the daily news, saying
it's a poor girl on the street, who can't make at least five dollars a night in omaha. So it's a fucked her since may you may not occupation. If you go, there is to fuck yeah, ok
denizen knew we couldn't have the police and a few city officials in his pocket. He couldn't just have a few police and a few city officials and diamonds to make this work yeah. He needed the political machine. He would throw support pine any candidate for me
party that would serve as needs. Most importantly, he formed a bond with edward rosewater. At his newspaper, the alma hobby
their water was a beau heaney. An immigrant who had built a river
taken as a man who would fight rival editors, both physically and firmly, on order to rosewater had gain control of a large section of the local republican party in nineteen o six
rosewater died and rosewater sun and successor victor inherited a strong role in republican politics and continued the bee policy of
early mentioning denizens name in print while going after his enemies, but the democratic candidates back
by the world Harold. These paper in the news were succeeding as they railed against city corruption, and vice one would have thought. Denison was losing control, but it was quietly working behind the scenes. John Denison, his brother was appointed a sidewalk inspector and well this let's go
Excuse me: I'm gonna go home at the sidewalk scares me. Are you walk? In eight years later, brother pat took the coveted post of ST department format,
You ve been watching you sidewalk guy holy shit, the denizens of control,
sidewalk industry, a boy I don't know which were anywhere you
you won't get a debt, is a territory is what's his town come into. Next pat son became a police officer and Billy nestle houses that brother
a city commissioner. Nobody then louis burma burmeister, a third war. Slim keeper was elected president of the city council, the following your johnny lynch denizens. Most
important ally. Next, the nestle house was elected to the county commission and shortly thereafter became a chairman
Let's election was important desert because it gave him control over juries. Suddenly, no one was being convicted, get tat a man does this is peaky
in nineteen o six james cowboy Jim doll
when was elected mayor a mayor cowboy yeah. He had a cowboy hat and the horse. The whole thing is a cowboy
My men, I'm noticing a lotta commonalities between then and now
guard saloons gambling prostitution, the mayor adopted a hands off policy which is the best we need it.
Government, not a government, a key better mother fucker, the fuck did you run for them to get no power areas
and smoothly the machine rolled on and Denison brought in the money until nineteen eighteen, when it all fell apart. First in nineteen, sixty nebraska passed a state constitutional amendment allowing for prohibition. Next, the state passed an election law, making it much more difficult to stuff ballot boxes, good order there too, and finally, the military barred all servicemen from the third word: wow, that's fucked. It's not good for business, not get for fuck business
and that's not good for the military, guys, it's no good. Lord yeah, all all Jim wanted was a little syphilis. Just a little teary just want to dip his fucking just dip in the surf and just do a safe dip cheese lumps if deaths
in the nineteen agent election doesn't last five of the seven city. Commissioners.
Well, as mayor dormann is political powers wiped out overnight.
Is that the people at omaha wanted to reform or were tired of the scandals in county government, the corrupt police department and the sanctioning of ridiculous city contracts. A new era was starting for omaha, edward p smith.
Yes, well, I was chosen to be new mare.
John ringer was selected, please, commissioner, and was given the task of cleansing the police department and putting a tight rein on the cities vice ring. It was around
who saw election as a moral crusade so funny one
A radical as someone who's just gonna do the thing: that's things that are legal like
me, and with some like this guy's, a real radical, no veracity. He doesn't want corruption, no murder and the peoples is kind of a lunatic. Now that power dense and looked around at the state of omaha and the country to fix this problem, o mohammed changed significantly. Since nine
in one hundred the world war. One era created a demand for labor. In america's industrial regions, beyond the south, a time to move she driving the company move, immigration was drastically curtailed during the war and close to five million americans enlisted in the
there are huge job vacancies. The massive labour
which was at hand, so northern factories and industries actively recruited southern african american labors after the thyssen them to move north by offering to pay their train fair.
News of the jobs available, northern city circulated via mouth and through african american newspapers, omaha
I've had a labour shortage with upwards of twenty five
an army hans enlisted during world war. One african americans want
skip the nightmare of and Jim crow laws in favour of the urban north foreign and fifty thousand
Blacks migrated north during what came to be called the great migration
almost african american population changed dramatically? The railroads and packing plants offered a wide range of unskilled job opportunities and economic prospects from nineteen, ten and nineteen twenty one mas black population, more than doubled to ten thousand three hundred and fifteen of a total population of one
ninety one thousand, while at the same time many ease we're going on strike because wages were so horrible. Many african americans, coming in on trains, had no idea that are being shipped to take others, jobs, blacks, quickly,
learn. The exact thing they escaped from was being recreated in places like omaha. By their very presence. It's gotta be a great situation, yeah just a great time to be black. It's a great time is probably the best time to be black lot of good times. I mean got a great lot of great times. I think that this is what the song good vibrations is about by the beach boys yeah. No, exactly now soldiers began returning from the warfront they found. Black communities have grown throughout northern cities, often in areas that had been inhabited once by one
it's so tell me how they calmly handled this predicament a lot of handshaking a lot of talks at the guy in the eyes and go let's sit down and talk about. Why don't we talk about this over a nice cold? But let's right, yeah right
on the grass ever built up as job a village veil Billy became a scarce for returning veterans, many of whom resent in africa. Marathons who occupied formerly white, held jobs and to top it all the
Unions wouldn't take black members, so black workers would just say fuck it and take the jobs they otherwise may have passed on weight. What's the union time, the ease wouldn't take back members so that, but then they would
oh so then it left them fewer opportunities, use any airline than they have no choice, but to be scared right right. Yet it was your idea. You shouldn't even be called the scale
at that point. You're, just a guy human
option was human options: zoom
and you're, one of them optional as human guys. I can tell by your skin color. Yes thank you for finally calling us that good lord, so you got like no options, although
and being called a scab for black people was probably like. Thank you. That's a nice work and finally, usually get ah what a relief you have: a packers clock, yeah, yeah bay, packers clock like you're, five or something I haven't tattooed on
I do too. What do you want from me the year I like the green bay pack, I get it, I get it. It's a great clock. Thank you! The year
The lynchings was upon us, it's not a good start, but I mean that's a terrible start to a sentence. Good does me great paragraph
lynchings killed. Seventy eight black people and nineteen nineteen emerges from forty eight in nineteen eighteen.
even worse. The chinks thomas doubled, but it's crazy
even worse. The lynchings had a carnivalesque atmosphere dave what's up,
Is that a weird word to yeah put with lynchings Yeah popcorn?
get your pop concert do so lay presents see the black I swing come on. My kid has never seen this before you get knowledge
after a year, but my boy watch
like mine in the south, violent mobs of hundreds, if not thousands, gathered with advance notice of lynchings,
There were often advertised in their local newspaper. Wait a white people are black people. Why people would get would gather the crowds, because the lynching would be advertised in this huge huge show.
This is not a, I will say this is now. Did you not know that we advertised lynchings and newspapers? I guess I didn't realize it was like a carnival yeah
Yeah I'd, really interventions coming to realise that was the gladiator of lodgings
or else mississippi, the linen
and burning of a suspected black rapist. John hartfield was advertised by the northern states
headline then read: three thousand
will burn negro three. That was the headline. That means like three thousand people. Will be there to watch him burn.
Why do you know I don't wanna Jamieson analysts has important time
I point out that america is really great place, terrible,
of people arrived to witness the spectacle
odds, assembled and attacked african americans throughout that summer, without fear of government reprisal mobs, feared little recourse, we're actions and gladly posed for lynching pictures. This lack of punishment tag me
let the more attacks and finally riots selfie obtained selfie with a dead guy. We go this.
known as the red summer.
Most because it was hot mud. I figured in most instances white attacked blacks. In some cases, blacks fought back the first bert right
in charleston south carolina on may the tent. It was begun by sailors in the. U s navy three black men were killed, then smaller riots broke out in
in sylvester Georgia, putnam county georgia modesty mississippi in june,
new london, connecticut, Memphis, tennessee annapolis maryland and make it mississippi. Then, in July.
I brisbane arizona where a white police attacked the buffalo soldiers of the tenth cavalry then in norfolk, virginia a white mob attacked a homecoming celebration for african americans veterans of world war. One I mean I like
yeah. I mean how do you in that time, at least not to thank you would like.
like. How did I mean it
wearable, regardless yeah. But how does the? How do you? How do you bridge that gap mentally for like bewildering because they were marching through town in a parade and they're? Like you can't march
black bastards game archer. Our time I've always said, I'm down for beating the shit,
people having parade, but that is not race related. That is just literally anybody. You think that's a good call! Maybe that's what it was me they just do my praise. I don't think that was the case. There. Eight more
it's in July the further washington dc their blacks. Far back because watching people watching the watching police refused to intervene. The writing went on for four days. A week later was the worst of all in chicago the rights they are less. It.
thirteen days, she's thread summer hit twenty five cities and nineteen nineteen and tom
Listen was listening to the news from around the country and he saw the change that was occurring in alma and he went to work using is for
I don't like what that means that he went to work
using his friend rosewater and they will not be. The b was a very bad newspaper that practice the yellow journalism, biased
is using language in town in
to arouse passions. Fox knows the alma lobby newspaper published a series
sensational stories of racial incidents from late june until early september, throughout its summer riots coverage to be accentuated the increasing black and white casualties around the country in early june
in an article about a young white girl and council bluffs, who said she was robbed, throttled and assaulted by a blackmail. Next to be reported, a woman was attacked by an undefined and identified man suspect
as either being a negro or mexican. It's hard to.
I've been there. That is that's how you know your racist, its
It was one of them. I e I mean that the original the original report said it's one of them. How can you not tell well
brown brown? I wasn't in miami once and I was therefore hip hop weekend. Endless hip hop weak.
it's a great weekend of here, there is a crazy weekend to be there and it was like late at night and this black chick is walking down the street and she put her arm around me and she goes. I need to find a final
mexican dude like this guy and I was like ma'am. You are shit. You do you drink yourself to the point where I look, mexicans slick, fucking irish reports of alone.
assaults against white women by blackness dominated the bees headlines, creating the perception that violence was a real
atlas problem in omaha in mid august, a white mob,
most apprehended a man named johnny, more suspected of assaulting for white girls between the age of nine and fourteen upon word of moors capture, a mob wielding corn, knives and firearms attempted to detain the prisoner themselves before detector.
Wished him away. There be report on august seventeenth, another story of an unidentified one. Armed negro who
trained and saw that a twelve year old girl named anna glass man,
the ended of the month be reported. Yet another incident where black man named Robert king, a recent immigrants from arkansas was alleged to have assaulted a white woman and was nearly lynched by a mob before police officers arrived with growing violence. The be then began to place.
squarely on mere smith and the omaha police force Eric of african americans and arrogant there. We go from at least it
about what's right, get nearer the god damn good either.
Here here up their focus on what matters getting prostitution
back to this area from june seventh to september
My seventh year must be reported. Twenty one alleged attacks by black man upon white women, the beans.
I recently reported that african americans were either suspected or arrested for the alleged crimes when police and prosecutors could not convict any of those.
rested. Some alma citizens became even more critical the police department in mayor Psmith, because none of them have done it yeah. That's why I couldn't convict yeah, of course, the paper it'd editorials on the front page assailing please, commissioner reding, for ringer for practically practicing tyranny and abuse and complained that a carnival of crime is being visit upon the city with assaults, robbery and violence. The consequences of incompetent police then came September, twenty fifth nineteen, nineteen million hoffman and agnes lobo.
we're assaulted at bancroft street and scenic avenue, as they were walking home after a late movie. My guess is there why it really yeah? I think you are correct. They set their sale at random at gunpoint, taking hopkins watchman
and billfold, plus a ruby ring from agnes, he ordered hoffman to move several steps away then drag nineteen year old low back
her hair into a nearby ravine and raped her well. Okay, sorry not to jump in, but then this white guy is a fucking bitch.
I miss in this story. It's it's a weird thing to figure out how someone can do physically, but what I mean
Oh shit, agnes that sucks, so I buy it.
We ran the obvious, get ahead, you're, all right boy girl. I hope it's.
Fast, agnes I'll, be here a further twenty six at Omagh be headline red black beast. First, stick up couple
I mean that sounds like the bee needs to got a headline school black beast. I mean that's awful, but it's all. What's the rest of it first stickup couple, I don't even know what that means time. It meant something it doesn't make sense to me. Yeah I mean. Maybe he was the first black man to stick up.
Couple. The most daring attack on a white woman ever
traded norma, occurred, one block south of bank of street near scenic avenue and gibson last night, the article states that the black beast had assaulted the white girl. Please search too
hours joined by four hundred armed men under the leadership of James low back agnes, his brother and frank rom,
a neighbor told searchers of a quote suspicious negro living in a house at too for one eight south.
Story, isn't any negro how suspicious people are those time they're saying so that there is very little while just means negro those incur a black person in some ngos I nor a black person leah a suspicious one,
well, of course, he's suspicious he's black. While this suspicious black man was
living with a white woman, virginia jones and another black man say so that's what we know of the suspicion
yeah, oh, that ray of hope. Either rules yeah well he's clearly hypnotized whitey naughty negro
in four of his men, found forty one year old, william brown at the house and held them with a shotgun awry.
on the same police found brown hiding under his bed. They took him to low backs home near by bringing with them
was found in brown's room, so I just want to break this down. So there's a guy just living in a house with a white woman and people are searching.
black eye. So someone says: hey. I know a black eye was the white lay in clear that guy's p,
alum, and then they go to the house and they capture the guy, and then they take him to the woman's house. Who said she was raped and they bring his clothes from the closet. They bring his clothes yep
why fashion low back and enhancement identify brown as their assailant agnes also identified the clothing, including a white.
That had been worn by a man seen in the gibson neighborhood. So it's not a hat that he was wearing when he collar crime, its
had that a black guy was seen wearing.
Around the neighbourhood, also when, when when you're racism is so impenetrable, what is the point of identifying like the eu? Its inherent
that they all are the same to you. You ve already said that they all basically look the same. What is the point mean any any you bring, there's there's gonna be like that. Was him these black and breathing? That's the one phase,
as of anywhere with two hands and shoe eyes is brown eyes linking just like the man who is say, assaulted may lack ere. I told you black, hair hoffman identify brown quote with not the least bit of doubt, but what he is, the negro who held him at gunpoint while he raped later. However, agnes stated that her attacker was black, but quote I can't say whether he is,
man or not. It's gotta be a lot of pressure to not even to like take the side of, I mean, obviously, it's terrible what happened to her? If that's actually what happened to her but to you know to have like
nine foaming white dude at your house with a black beard with clothes. What we're just like with hard arms for the conviction you know
I'm sure that point you're,
July was the one you want, but yeah exactly and it's a weird line up but yeah that guy at my living out of all the guys here, the nine white guys and the one black guy he's the closest man. We know
just traumatized by rape. Organ to bring your rapists into your house. That's comfortable and smart is, is europe is a what
back to is this. Your rape is, if I say,
is we stop bringing rapists into my house? I can't make any promises map bandeau, no large crowd of some
Fifty men and women are gathered around the house shouting that brown should be lynched. They struggled with the police and twice
seated in putting a rope around browns neck, the standard lasted for an hour. Despite slashing of tyres and beatings, the police took brown first to the new douglas counting courthouse jail, their police,
chief of police Marshall ever seen said he did not know of brown was guilty and that further investing
It was necessary, like a police officer, sets think of how fucked up a time it is when black people are dying to go to the prison with the car
like when that was this is a time that was the best option. This is the time when black people were like. Please take me to the prison by god into the prison.
Please you're the only people who turned you right now. The level headed cops when he was taken to the
out of jail. Brown said it was working as a call hustler, which meant he would carry call from trucks to sellers and limping because of
It is an official examination showed brown was quote two twisted by rheumatism to assault anyone.
On the whole world reporter interviewed brown in jail and quote confirmed by his observation. The man's crippled condition his crime,
rheumatism met. Brown would be unable to overpower low beckoned hoffman concluded Jim mickey lincoln journal writer yeah, it's not surprising
don't stand by the fact that agnes should not have gone out with such a pussy. Also, ironically, hoffman of the pussy was also in a broken leg. When he was
it and it healed incorrectly sweater limps on all the newspaper reports. They referred to him as the cripple hoffman the cripple. Meanwhile, the dude with the rheumatism is in jail. Excuse me,
who's the cripple storyline in this
ironically, hoffman was repeatedly mentioned- is the cripple he denied that description, saying
a disability because of his broken leg that never mended comment about the cripple here.
about to be able to focus on the right things, their path. That's two p m. On september, twenty eightth hoffman got about two hundred, mostly young people at bancroft school, to follow him to the courthouse and try to seize brown. Detective John done told the martyrs to halt, but they ignored him. Their numbers increasing as they passed
by four p m, several hundred people had gathered at the south side of the courthouse, with three policemen cordon off the building thinking. There was really no threat. A police captain sent home fifty officers who had been summoned to police headquarters,
as a reserve, and this year's shit head of the year award goes to work
what are you guys doing here? Captain callers now now we're good,
nah, even though there's two hundred people out there and a lynch mob we're calling it a slow sunday, why don't you guys call it act,
the bulgaria can I delete. The word today gives the only their bags under your eyes. Please get some sleep, gentlemen, the man this you'll be fine.
this is like thirty of us in five hundred of them. Do the math don't do that. Take care inside chief ever seen called
So while that guy's sending him home she's ever seen called the council bless ilo police chief.
Jason jensen for assistance, jetsam replied. He had no right to send his men out of the state. They then asked the lancaster county home guard for help, but were told the right would be over before they could respond.
I mean that that is the that is like the I'm washing my hair use. For a day you got, you know
get the fuck and run around when you hear that yeah we were making a tuna catches.
Scroll over. You know find a shoe, so I how we can do it. Shirts are in the wash and
The shoes are shiny, so what and I'm thinking about the time we get down there after the shirts go to the wash and dry them and
it's gonna be over. I got my most rights go for an hour for
five: when was the last place, we saw our shoes if we could figure that out we're going to get back to you I'll. Tell you what we're exhausted good luck with all that when lieutenant colonel
Jacob west at fort omaha, received the report that a right was under way. He told almost policed.
if that federal troops could not get involved in less ordered by the war department, the milk
It's a good thing, there's not a lot of levels and hopes to go through. This is when it's there's just paperwork, and it just I mean it's literally like everyone's like. Let me call headquarters years to get that you guys are getting attacked by a giant mob, but I get good stuff.
signed when we floated up the chain but from the talked to some fellows, please hold the military chain of command had to be initiated. Delaying action well can be
patient passed from secretary of war, newton de bigger down to the forts commanding officer within an hour police were confronted by some five. Forty five thousand angry people throwing rocks at the court have forty five thousand.
yeah, due to fear that, if you're, if you're in the cell, I mean, if I were you
I want to fuck you just hang yourself. Just did not give them the satisfaction but play the reality. Right is that you're pretty far you're pretty fucked the north doors gave way.
and the police chased the mob from the building several times they attack the place a little after five pm, one officer was pushed through a plate, glass door to others became
targets when they drew their clubs. Fire hoses were turned on the mob, with no effect stones and bricks broke almost every window. On the south side of the courthouse, the police tried to discourage the assault by firing their revolvers down elevator shafts. I feel like that's, not good police work.
were there unless there's hundreds of people in the elevator shaft that's useless,
elevators aren't attacking anyone. Why think? I think
it is that they are trying to make it sound like they were shooting out and the place they issue that
I think something was down in the elevator shaft. It just shows you the quot, like the valid like it. Just that there's a disparity but
queen the value of life of a white person and a black person it in order to dissuade the way,
people from murdering the black eye, they'll create the illusion of violence. Meanwhile, they're going to fucking hang this man. This is lucky yeah.
The shots only made the crowd angrier. Well, that's crazy effect that shocking didn't see. They seem pissed
deems it seems like the be reasonable and go home at that point, or at least that you don't
more angrier. Instead, the crowd battered it.
Mere smooth and please you ve ever seen arrived and entered the building to restore order, the crowded.
At her down a door and a six year old boy on a horse, William Francis appeared with several men hanging onto the horse's tail as he rode through the entryway. I mean that's just awesome. Mia now, disagree,
running a horse into a building at amazon is dale. Sixteen he's,
every is already on the varsity for bulgaria skis, gavi, yeah, shit, it and halfway through his life, with the courthouse rather than breached. Please
chief marshall ever seen climb to a second story window to speak. To the mob he got on the window sill and the crowd begin cheering and shouting and throwing rocks and ever seen was forced to retreat next city, commissioner harry be Zeman trade
To talk to the growing mob only to be drowned out by shouts of lynch that day,
Jus was that person
They used why there were there ever steam, neither gone after the jew.
Look, I mean you gotta billing surrounding my so call minorities, not that I'll make you like. Ditch the like, don't kill this black man
through the night and the jew do about it.
The black guy get him out here. Now that I'm thinking about it, I kind of see their side a little bit more. Now that I'm thinking about it and suffered a few blows from rocks before being helped inside by friends outside mechanic, John Thomas, lauded the protection of white women, he lauded the protection of what do you mean if we were saying that you know it's great, that women white women should be protected, and this is what we're doing here- we're taking care of white one man this mop?
It just sounds like a very chaotic mofo is an idiot party. This is a giant idiot party. I mean for someone to just in the middle of it just be like you know, it's great we're defending women. Just like did not
That's not bottom line right now, we're all little fired up, let's eat them,
broke through the police barrier and officers, caps, badges and revolvers were taken from them. Most of the police retreated inside the.
By my sevenpm joining sheriff clark and his half dozen deputies, half dozen pawnshops, and they walter g clark and townsend gun company were broken into four revolvers.
it rifles by eight pm. The mom had begun firing on the courthouse with guns. Mayor smith came out of the east doors on seventeenth street to confront the mob. He asked them to forget the prisoner and allow the fireman to put out flames that were beginning as they were starting to set the building on the kid more emergencies it is. The cause is terrible, but it is. It does seem, like all the shit
that we get fucked with today. You'd think we would be able to have some sort of reaction like this. They do and now we are doing. But now we don't do shit now we're just so apathetic, and here it is just to kill a black eye. You ve galvanise ten thousand
people, say you're saying that the that the hardening part of this story, if you dig that deep enough care, if you did
deep enough. What you can say is that people united for a cause
sadly, in those circumstances, discuss the horrific could
in this day and age like I could never like. Literally if we got rid of
can fries is the only way that I could see like people acting like that's like we have this shit that we give up
it's about now. It's just you would to see this where it would just walk. What would it take? Oh no you're right, yeah anyway, so the mayor's outside talking to the people. He was then hit with a baseball bat. Oh
an attack by the mob? No, I will not give up the man. Smith said: I'm going to enforce the law. Even with my own life. The crowd took his words to heart,
hang on a string em up
with a noose around his neck. The mayor was dragged to the sixteenth street traffic signal. What a rope was throughout the rope.
Over a bar and tighten around my neck,
Then a man named Russell nor guard save the mayor's life by removing the rope police reinforcements arrived withdrawn pistols they took. The unconscious merit, afford hospital
budget a mayor fuck and the switch and positions a little there. You don't do whatever you don't go the black eyed stuff, because I'm talkin about starting to sink in the mob rushed back. You gonna be fuckin impressed with the
White guy invited here to give up his life to totally dude totally. I am very glad that we have
euro. Will anyone like, I think we ve been talked about this before, but like it so
Hard to know like you know how much of just the culture forms your mind like to be an independent thinker.
Not even that this guy is doing an image. I'm sure you would be fine to hang this dude if he was proven wrong, but the idea
You could actually like take a stance.
If that really is yeah, that's that's some fucking backbone. That is the mob rush back to the courthouse and the right escalated as gasoline was thrown into the building spreading flames. Forced the police to retreat to the second floor
firemen fought farm about who brought hoses, which the crowd quickly had to pieces? What's good as when there's a fire and you're going upstairs,
that's the one way to go. Yeah writers took the firebug ladders and use them to enter the courthouse. His brow
and second story. When we get like I mean literally, if you're in the building you have to be like, it was a bad thing. The fire department tame it was bad.
yeah, the guys I gave you had a good idea in mine, but the shit is so fucked when you wish. The fire department never showed up to your fire
while leading a charge up the stairs to reach brown sixty year old louis young was shot and killed. Please
an sheriffs Debbie's took to the fourth floor, with flames and angry man below them. Some
shout em shouted let
one leave no by the modest
asian armed men at every exit door, sheriff clark, led brown and is hundred and two
one fellow prisoners to the roof, but bullets fight. That's the other thing. I gather prisoners like what the
I'm just not tomorrow, is genuine
you guys, I sub sleeping, went off
I'm here to alert you drugs? It is sheer session regular with alcohol
So one hundred and twenty one prisoners are on the roof. Then bullets were fired from nearby buildings and they had to run back down the stairs clerk. Convinced the writers on the stairs to allow female prisoners to leave.
officers and deputies began telephoning their wives with their final words. Sorry, that is a sentimental part. It is funny to think of them.
Meant when you are negotiating with these guys for them to actually have a moment to be like who show that the women
There really is a goal, that of what are the level and which today is what it is now vital: guy ladys black ladys on. Ladies, just the ladys, you guys got the flies. Ladies night, ladies night, ok,
I was going to become another dimension tonight, it's ladies night and then at the bottom of their there's almost like about through to the outsiders. I gave a two more at the coming before you can go out. Lady sorry about that. Just doing ahead,
Ok, so is the cops are called their wives.
Saying by deputy clerk of the court. Asshole steer realising that several large record books were threatened by the fire made his way through an entrance and went to his office where he care carried several district record books to evolve and safety. He along the way he found three wounded police officers.
then he took them into the vault, and then someone slammed the door behind them far thick trapped in the blazing building. What's a form
broke through a wall and escaped while being shot at bad vault. That's fucking, amazing, amaze
think not a good quality vol, not a good vault. It's just a door that will use the side hey. You know what let's put a big vault a door on this closet yeah.
Ten officers in court room. One on the fourth floor were threatened by the flames, but their call for help was refused with calls. Let em burn brain out with you and you, a letter from the west side of the building. Three slip of paper floated
scrawl on one of them was come to the fourth floor of the building and we will hand the nigger over to you. Ah, my cat ladder
replace against the west side of the burning courthouse and two men, one with a rope and the other carrying a shock on rushed up the ladder to the second floor from there they performed and aerobatic climb to reach brown and its defenders to force up
but by not was dark and the automobile headlights illuminated the window ledges as they
sir shouts and shots came from the bill
south side they yelled brown was in the hands of his executioners sheriff clark claim
he surrendered brown to say the lies of the police officers and deputies ferret fearing they would be killed. If the struggle continues he's right, he is right. He is right, but it's still fox. It's the most horrific horrific decision yet and make you have to give up an innocent guy yeah so that other innocent people can live because there's insane people outside inside
we'll brown moaned to sheriff might clerk. I am innocent. I never did it my guide away, I'm innocent!
By the way I mean that's the elephant in the room that would probably not have almost forgotten about at this point is that this guy didn't even do shit didn't do anything. He was just
The house is just a guy, yet a white room gate, a white roommate white roommate white room
made red flag. The day after the riot, the extra said he read the note that urged others to come to the fourth floor and get the nigger with two friends. He followed the instructions and somebody handed brown over to thirty men who had come up the stairs. They tied a rope around his neck and dragged him to the south side of the building. He was beaten into.
consciousness, his clothes were torn off. By the time he reached the buildings, doors bloody. He was taken down the stairs and handed over to the waiting hoard. To hang him. Several men pull browns body into the air, as the crowd cheered there he died.
Swinging by the traffic sign the swaying body then became a target for gunfire. He was riddled with bullets law
after twenty minutes. Brown brows remains were tied to the end of a police car that the mob had seized and dragged to the seventeenth and dodge streets there. He was burned with fuel
From the red signal lanterns used for street repair- haider, not good
brown tried remains, were then dragged behind the automobile through downtown streets, Nebraska born actor
Henry fonda was fourteen years old when the lynching happened. His father owned a printing plant across the street from the courthouse
Henry fonda watched the riot from the second floor window of his father's shop quote. It was the most horrendous sight. I'd ever seen. We locked the plant went, downstairs and drove home in silence, my hands were wet and there were tears in my eyes. All I could think of was that young black man dangling from the end of the rope estimates of the crowd, vary from five thousand to twenty thousand as it dwindled us troops began. Finally, arriving in response to requests for assist I'll, get get. Colonel west ordered two companies to the courthouse to restore order and if,
and a third company to the black district as a precaution, while the troops marched, brown was being lynched Berne and his body dragged around the city's downtown streets. The next day, special trains brought reinforcements from army camps in ilo kansas south.
to eventually sixteen hundred troops were on duty in omaha are going to talk about the packer clock anymore. Can I can I just say that when people talk about horror, ice horrible isis is yeah. This is not that long ago to serve, but he knows well that I mean honestly that I, the problem, is that yeah exactly there's no perspective no perspective
it may. If you'd like. I always think that about like the Middle east, like it's terrible when somebody is killed, it's terrible when anything like this happens, but you also have to think that, like we there's like a generator
in the babies in Iraq who have like enormous heads because of us so, and we and we like in this period until the nineteen thirty, we killed thousands of black people yeah
and we really don't. We really just have no interest in railways and it's not taught in their history right, fucking disgusting, and you would think like any just shortly,
It really is true that, like the path, I guess the problem with
Racism in this country is that it, it is, it's like
drinking problem in a relationship where you just don't want to talk to you, don't wanna rock the boat, because you don't want to
not lived together anymore. You just don't talk about the drinking.
Really. What you need is the therapy to be like holy shit,
We ve got a lot of problems here, purge them, and then you can move forward. If you think about the ship of the car,
now, even the reaction of the copse. Now it's
same sentiment, different title, we're still killing black people just legally gap, which is the fucking. The courthouse was in ruins, completed in nice
in twelve, at a cost of one million five hundred thousand dollars. The damage to the building was estimated at one million tax records were burned, as were land indexes in the office of register of deeds. The county clerk's office was gutted and furnishings, and equipment and other offices were in shambles. Plus you need to fucking. You know fire the vault guy right, the volga, as many as three men were killed as victims of the mob's fury. Will brown teenager louis jan,
and each J hidell, a businessman who was walking down the street two blocks away when he was shot in the afternoon.
They just random you
I got you son of a bitch. Fifty some individuals were injured, with cuts, bruises beatings and smoke inhalations
without think about the initial crime, and now three
the people of your own race, who matter are dead. What two people of your is now coming attorney able shotwell proclaim. The law would be enforced in the rioters press,
you. Did the army began to rest mob ringleaders on the basis of photographs. Confiscated from the public general would pay
interviewed several suspected more participants. The army confiscated photographs of the riot.
public and began identifying and arresting a hundred men accused of taking part. So they would all take pictures with the body. There was a big as a big thing back then you would take pictures.
It's a bunch. It's a bunch of people, smile at and hanging out with a body. It's really cool. It's it's a good time. The police compiled their own list of three hundred alleged participants. One of their names high on the list was milton hoffman.
Who had worked as denizens secretary, oh fuck, in a while
when was accused of leading the mob from south Omar to the courthouse and whipping them into a frenzy, get the funds as well as regards the fact original rape and sang it had happened to him.
Denison got Hoffman out of the city to denver before he could be arrested where he worked for another gambler for seven years before, returning to omar, fifty men took the grand juries oath. On october eighth, nineteen nineteen sheriff clark selected
sixteenth Henry h done a denison loyalist and former chief of police.
Tumblr november indictments, including council,
you're, with revolvers hanging striking, beating, bruising, wounding, shooting, choking, strangling and suffocating brown, along with arson breaking and entering and inciting others to the same acts. The grand jury issued a hundred and eighty nine indictments twelve year old, sol Francis was the youngest to be arrested. Elf, he had urged other writers to follow him as he climbed the latter, but who the fuck
I mean, like I get. I've all get all the fuckers, but who you shouldn't be listening to a twelve year old during a riot while his brother, because you're the kid who rode the horse was also named francis. Who was sixteen, so I think the Francis family is pretty fucked up. Yeah they're leaders
Peter listen, a twelve year old could come and tell me anything right. Now, I'm probably not going to listen to it: okay, okay, fair one.
If you can climb this latter. Mr all, walk. Of course. Only a few of the arrests were ever pressing.
It is mostly on minor charges to exceptions where Ralph Snyder and claude net away both charge for browns murder from a top of burnt police cars.
There had shouted. We have showed the nigger. What a northern mob can do. They were found not guilty. After a brief jury deliberation, mayor smith said he was positive, that a man named Davis was one of his sails
Davis was charged with salt to murder to do great bodily harm conspiracy to murder, unlawful assembly and writing Davis claimed he was home during the riot and was not convicted
Now at home. You guys guys it's a way heard the guys at all. Well, not much
We can do here. Your story checks out. That's pretty opening shut their he's gonna grid out by taking
am a man. Sorry about that mix up we didn't realize you were at home. Oh okay! Thank you. I'll see you later, okay, take care, despite the presence of thousands of people. Few cooperated with law enforcement. A conspiracy of silence protect the
The participants, the grandeur report said people in the mob were under the influence of liquor. They ve been fuelled.
In local words, the courthouse gang
everybody just get shit faced all day during the I mean. Is that really it was based.
What would happen rival? Who on this list, of course, but in general
it seems like he was giving out free liquor, yeah, but do if you're in a riot and there's free liquor fuck. What do you think? I'm gonna fucking turn it loose. Let's fucking party bro, I'm gonna be looking for coke the cortez gang and urged the crowd to drink up and spur enthusiasm for the task at hand and, most importantly, the accounts of black rapists
are not to be white man in black face. Well, Madame
you're about to say what I think you're about to say: the only accounts of black men attacking white women in the home,
be we're just white guy investigated. It turned out that they were white guys in black face.
You can't even look at me.
people on one side pointed the finger at Denison. His supporters said
It would never do anything like this Dennis
Never had anything to do with that riot. They said dennis
stalwart, William Billy Mare denied.
The old man had anything to do with the right, but added
I'd, say, didn't get a kick out of it, the way it ruined the administration. There was, in fact I should not be talking. There was no evidence to prove Tom denizens direct involvement in brown, stuff
but his long time, relationship with the roma be his campaign to discredit the Psmith administration. His political legal influence and its connections with hoffman seems a noteworthy hoffman. The cripple whom
was, with young, miss agnes low back on the night. She was alleged, I'm glad at least he still gets called a cripple on the night. She she was allegedly raped. By will brown it turns out milton hoffman was denizens, employ
his uncle and recommended him to the old man. A few years earlier, after teenage often compete completed a business course. He worked
as denison secretary assisting with election ballots and voting before he was twenty one. Nothin hoffman disappeared,
the riot he went to denver, remarried agnes and where he worked for one of denizens, closest friends
there. They return to omaha, where they later they returned home. How are they spent the rest of their lives? Fuck? This short lived
voices of condemnation were heard, but mostly a concessions. Consensus of us acceptance of lynching, even approval, was typical in omaha and other cities. The violence did not evoke any initiatives to
major racism or improve conditions for almost african american community. Two years after the right, the coop klux clan formed in omaha, clara mayor S, smith
the politically damaged denison's machine won the next election during Henry fonda, his long career, two of his best movies, young, mister lincoln, and the oxbow incident featured link lynchings as major plot points. Jesus Christ, Ed, that's america that is fucking dark. I told you it was gonna, be dark
god, that's awful. I've been I've been avoiding the black riots in the just just straight up, horrific murder of of towns rose with towns were obliterated. Saint Louis hundreds were killed.
There's another city: I think it was an arkansas just obliterated and went on for like fourteen days, but then I was like well fucking. It's a history. Podcast, it is america,
and I think you're like like I was saying I mean you know. I think you should know that the good to know the ship. Nobody knows this scandal
that's not nice to hear, but it's good enough know it's not nice to hurt, but sorry guys, sorry about
If you look at the history next,
about balloons here, has the landmark giveth space the play, and that means a lot lighter than the one we just did. Oh yeah yeah,
Yeah. I've been for me personally the orders which would have been nice euro
the other around. I think
What a dragon with the other one probably gets a few lists. If you listen to the next one,
I don't think there's a right way to handle it probably better job at the neck. Excellent certainly doesn't seem history
Magic.
Some of that information? I was like Jesus Christ, man you're such a fucking, vile country, vile
I can't wait to see it permanently. It'll be fun when it's time just kill white people that'll be interesting.
What happens now there, when the man
atkins, committed genocide against white people and mobility.
Do they believe amnesty thanks
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