A Thanksgiving Mutiny At Folsom Prison

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The Trial Of The Big Beef Sextet

Episode 424 takes place on Thanksgiving day, 1927, but it’s not your typical heartwarming holiday tearjerker. Rather, it’s the story of a pack of Folsom prisoners carrying out a long-laid plan to make a big break from the big house. Needless to say, it doesn't end particularly well for any of them when two guards and ten prisoners meet their deaths as a result.

Culled from the historic pages of the San Francisco Examiner, Sacramento Bee, and other newspapers of the era.
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