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Joseph Albert Yablonski

Case from Clarksville, PA dated Jan 01, 1970

Victim Details

Joseph Albert Yablonski

Male

Clarksville

PA

1970-01-01

59

Joseph

Albert Yablonski

07/21/2026

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On the cold New Year's Eve of 1969, a chilling silence fell over the farmhouse of Joseph Albert 'Jock' Yablonski, a 59-year-old male and a prominent figure in the United Mine Workers of America. In the early morning hours of December 31, while he, his wife Margaret, and their 25-year-old daughter Charlotte slept in their Clarksville, Pennsylvania home, three hired assassins crept inside and brutally ended their lives. The discovery of their bodies by one of Yablonski's sons on January 5, 1970, u ...
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  • TribLIVE.com: 50 years later, wounds remain from Yablonski family killings
  • Smithsonian Magazine: Fifty Years Ago, the Murder of Jock Yablonski Shocked the Labor Movement
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