Margaret Yablonski

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 ...Read More

TribLIVE.com: 50 years later, wounds remain from Yablonski family killings

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