Salt Lake City History Minute - Joe Hill

In 1915, the State of Utah executed labor icon and folk singer Joe Hill for a crime he may not have committed, putting Utah in the center of a media storm that's lasted a hundred years.

Here's the history minute version of that story.

Photos courtesy the Utah State Historical Society and the Salt Lake Tribune.

[IndepIndepWALT]

I'm just learning of him love his music

[jaredwhite]

He was executed at currant Day Utah State prison in Draper.