Eighty six years ago, the Chicago Police Department shot 40 striking workers at the Republic Steel plant on the south side. Then the Paramount film company buried the newsreel footage. Documentarian Greg Mitchell talks about the streaming release of his latest film, “Memorial Day Massacre: Workers Die, Film Buried.”

 

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