Helen Matlack Wilson

Death by Force

Helen Matlack Wilson, a 37-year-old white woman, spent the morning of September 6, 1949, going about ordinary errands with her family, unaware that her name would soon be bound forever to one of America’s earliest modern mass shootings. She had been born in February 1912 and, by the late 1930s and 1940s, her life was rooted in southern New Jersey, where she married Garland Groves Wilson and raised their young son, John. That Tuesday she rode through Camden with her mother, Emma Matlack, the th ...Read More

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