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PREVIEW: EUGENE V. DEBS: JAILED CANDIDATE: In "1920: The Year of Six Presidents," historian David Pietrusza recounts how President Wilson imprisoned socialist leader Eugene V. Debs for opposing America's entry into World War I after April 1917. Despite hi

The John Batchelor Show

John Batchelor

Society & Culture, Arts, News, Books

4.52.8K Ratings

🗓️ 29 November 2024

⏱️ 4 minutes

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PREVIEW: EUGENE V. DEBS: JAILED CANDIDATE: In "1920: The Year of Six Presidents," historian David Pietrusza recounts how President Wilson imprisoned socialist leader Eugene V. Debs for opposing America's entry into World War I after April 1917. Despite his cell in an Atlanta prison, Debs managed a vigorous presidential campaign. More later.

undated Eugene V. Debs of the Socialist Party of America

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slash go for $1,000 off. This is John Batchel, speaking with the author David Petrucia, his book

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1920, the year of six presidents. Eugene V. Debs was a candidate in 1920 from jail.

0:56.4

David Petusha describes why he's in jail who put him there,

1:00.2

and it doesn't in any fashion inhibit his supporters from running him for president.

1:07.2

He did very well in 1912.

1:10.0

Eugene V. Debs, and why was he in jail? He protested Wilson's

1:14.7

decision to enter in the first war. He said that it was none of our business. He said war is

1:20.1

not the future. Sound familiar? Eugene v. Debs, in jail running for president, 1920, the year of the six presidents.

1:30.1

More of this later. He's in the pen. He's in Atlanta penitentiary. And the reason is

1:37.1

because he had spoken out against the war. The mother of the Socialist Party during World War I was anti-war.

1:47.9

He had spoken out against the draft, and I think they got him on the Sedition Act,

1:53.3

prosecuted him.

1:55.6

Wilson was, as I said earlier, not used to brooking opposition.

2:01.6

And he was determined that as long as he was president, Eugene V. Debs, even though the war was over, was never going to be granted clemency or be led out of jail.

2:13.5

He's pretty popular.

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