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Margaret Yablonski

Case from Clarksville, PA dated Jan 01, 1970

Victim Details

Margaret Yablonski

Female

White / Caucasian

Clarksville

PA

1970-01-01

56

Margaret

Yablonski

07/03/2026

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In the quiet, pre-dawn hours of New Year's Eve 1969, a brutal act of violence shattered the peace of the small town of Clarksville, Pennsylvania, snuffing out the lives of Margaret Yablonski, her husband, and their daughter. Margaret, a 56-year-old woman, was shot and killed in her bed, a victim of a carefully orchestrated assassination aimed at her husband, Joseph 'Jock' Yablonski, a prominent and defiant figure within the United Mine Workers of America. Their 25-year-old daughter, Charlotte, w ...
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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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    Has anyone else looked into the ongoing impact that Charlotte Yablonski’s murder had on local comm... ...Read More
    03/23/2024
    Has anyone else been struck by how swiftly justice seemed to work here, despite the chaos surroundin... ...Read More
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