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PREVIEW: #WILSON: #DEBS: Excerpt from a two hour conversation with historian David Pietrusza re his study of "1920: The Year of the Six Presidents -- and this detail of Indiana born Eugene Debs,1856-1927, nominated five times for president by the Socialis

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John Batchelor

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🗓️ 21 February 2024

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PREVIEW: #WILSON: #DEBS: Excerpt from a two hour conversation with historian David Pietrusza re his study of "1920: The Year of the Six Presidents -- and this detail of Indiana born Eugene Debs,1856-1927, nominated five times for president by the Socialist Party of America, camaigning for the 1920 Election from his cell at the Atlanta Federal Prison because of his conviction under the 1917 Sedition Act.

1894 Harper's Weekly, Eugene Debs

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Conversation with David Petrucha, the historian, for his book

0:36.4

1920, the Year of the Six Presidents.

0:40.1

In this particular section, we discuss Eugene Debs, who was running for president,

0:45.8

nominated five times by the Socialist Party of America.

0:50.4

What is striking about how he ran in 1920, he would die in 1927, born 1856 in Indiana.

0:58.0

What is striking is that he ran for president from the Atlanta Federal Penitentiary.

1:03.4

He'd been convicted under the 1917 Sedition Act.

1:07.3

He refused the war.

1:09.3

He spoke against the war.

1:10.8

He spoke against the patriotism that surrounded the war. He spoke against the patriotism that surrounded the war and for that he was

1:15.8

jailed and Woodrow Wilson was glad for it and kept him in jail even though the war

1:21.1

was over. David Petru, the year of six presidents.

1:25.0

He's in the pen.

1:27.0

He's in Atlanta Penitentiary, and the reason is,

1:31.0

because he had spoken out against the war.

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