Hi everyone, Losselman Cummary here with a bonus episode.

This is meant to accompany the CHP 285 episode where I told the story of this event that

happened 150 years ago on October 24th, 1871.

Right now I'd like to read an article entitled Chinese Massacre at Los Angeles in 1871

that appeared in the Historical Society of Southern California Journal on January 7th,

1894. 23 years after the event took place. The piece was written by C.P. Doerland and excerpts

have appeared over the years in various publications. I'm going to read it to you here in its entirety.

23 years is a long time by most reckoning, but I think compared to where we are today in 2021,

these words were much fresher with respect to the telling of the story of the L.A. Chinatown Massacre.

The name most people familiar with the Massacre remember was Dr. Jean-Gilong Tong, who served

the Los Angeles community as a local herbalist and physician. It was noted that he was a respected

and admired Angelino who was among the victims senselessly murdered on that terrible night.

If you'd like to read more about this event of 150 years ago, I suggest a title written by Mr.

Scott Zesh, called the Chinatown War, Chinese Los Angeles and the Massacre of 1871,

and was published by Oxford University Press in 2012. Thanks for listening, and I hope you will

kindly reflect for a moment on this past history and say a prayer for the innocent souls who

perished in this tragic event. This is L'Asla Montgomery signing off from Los Angeles,

California. Thanks for listening. The history of the Chinese Massacre that occurred in this city on

the night of October 24, 1871 is a recital of one of the most bloody and barbarous tragedies in the

annals of this state. The trouble originated among the Chinese themselves. Yo-Hing was the leader of

one faction and Sam Yun of another. The cause of the outbreak in the beginning was the possession of

a Chinese woman named Yat Ho, young and attractive, and from a Chinese estimate of female worth

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