Legendary labor organizer Joe Hill was executed in 1915 after being convicted of killing two men in a holdup in this city:
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Legendary labor organizer Joe Hill was executed in 1915 after being convicted of killing two men in a holdup in Salt Lake City in 1914. Hill, born Joel Haggelund in Sweden in 1879, went to the United States in 1902 and soon joined the revolutionary Industrial Workers of the World (the Wobblies). He claimed the charges against him were trumped up and won worldwide support, including that of President Woodrow Wilson. Nevertheless, Hill was tried, convicted and executed by firing squad in 1915.
