Bloody Thursday

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Bloody Thursday (July 5th, 1934) street fighting

Photo: San Francisco History Center, San Francisco Public Library

Tear gas flying at Bryant and Beale Streets, July 1934.

Photo: OpenSFHistory.org wnp33.00021

Howard Sperry and Gene Olson, fatally shot by police on Mission Street at Steuart during Bloody Thursday, July 5, 1934.

Photo: San Francisco History Center, San Francisco Public Library

July 5th saw a pitched confrontation between workers on one side and scabs and police on the other.

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Bloody Thursday newsreel, Pathe News, 1934

Video: Prelinger Archive

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