1879-1915

Reviews five trials in which people were wrongly convicted of serious crimes, including manslaughter, murder, and conspiracy.

Follows the story of one European immigrant who arrived in New York in 1902, was a hobo, and became a labor organizer and song writer.

In 1915, after being asked to sing at the funeral of executed songwriter and member of the international union, Industrial Workers of the World, Joe Hill, eighteen-year-old Utah coal miner Tommy Quinlan begins to accept his past and make decisions about his future.

Chronicles the life and legacy of Joe Hill, a labor activist, songwriter, and member of the Industrial Workers of the World--the radical Wobblies--before he was convicted of murder in 1914 and sentenced to death by firing squad, examining the murder trial, and discussing the controversy surrounding Hill's death, public response to his death, and Hill's legacy.