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Nineteen-year-old union organiser Harry Simms is shot near Brush Creek in Knox County, Kentucky, USA, by a sheriff's deputy who also worked as a mine guard for the local coal company. Simms will die of his wound at Barbourville Hospital the following day. Simms story is told in the song The Death of Harry Simms by Aunt Molly Jackson and Jim Garland, which is perhaps better known in a version by Pete Seeger.
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