Charlotte Joan Yablonski

On the cold New Year's Eve of 1969, a brutal act of violence silenced a voice of reform within the United Mine Workers of America and tragically ended the lives of three family members in their Clarksville, Pennsylvania, farmhouse. Charlotte Joan Yablonski, a 25-year-old white female, was found murdered alongside her parents, Joseph 'Jock' Yablonski and his wife, Margaret. The discovery of their bodies on January 5, 1970, by one of Charlotte's brothers, Kenneth, unraveled a conspiracy of corrupt ...Read More

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