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August Vincent Theodore Spies

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American upholsterer, radical labor activist, and newspaper editor (1855-1887)

United StatesJournalistsLived 1855 to 1887 · aged 31
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August Vincent Theodore Spies was an American upholsterer, radical labor activist, and newspaper editor.

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The last photograph of August Spies at his prison cell in County Jail on May 3, 1887 (photographer: John Joergen Kanberg).The last photograph of August Spies at his prison cell in County Jail on May 3, 1887 (photographer: John Joergen Kanberg).Spies' final words are engraved on the Haymarket Martyrs' Monument, the Forest Park, Illinois, gravesite of the executed defendants.Spies' final words are engraved on the Haymarket Martyrs' Monument, the Forest Park, Illinois, gravesite of the executed defendants.

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August Vincent Theodore Spies was an American upholsterer, radical labor activist, and newspaper editor. One of the most prominent German-speaking anarchists in America during the decade of the 1880s, Spies was found guilty of conspiracy to commit murder following a bomb attack on police in an event remembered as the Haymarket affair. Spies was one of four who were executed in the aftermath of this event.

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United States
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Journalists
Type
Journalist
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deceased
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Lived 1855 to 1887 · aged 31
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