Flip to The H.C. Frick Coal and Coke Corporation's Edenborn Mine after shooting of 12 coal strikers, outside Brownsville, PA., November, 1941.Close Window
Credit: Capitol Preservation Committee, http://cpc.state.pa.us and John Rudy Photography, www.johnrudy.com
In 1940, Pennsylvania Governor Arthur H. James was nominated as a dark horse candidate at the Republican presidential convention. After six ballots, James withdrew this name. "I was convinced that we were going to have a war." He would later explain. "I didn't want to be a war President."
