Crud_Taylor
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- Joined
- Jun 6, 2015
- Location
- Lawrence, KS
I came across this fantastic picture of a unionist riot in San Francisco in after Lincoln's assassination [here is the link] while doing some research for my dissertation. A line of police can be seen standing between the rioters and the offices of a pro-Southern newspaper. Apparently they couldn't keep the mob at bay because the presses were destroyed and "salvaged" by Charles and Michael De Young, who used the equipment to start the Daily Dramatic Chronicle. Michael De Young eventually became the director of the Associated Press.