Archive Record
Images
Metadata
Catalog Number |
1984.002.278 |
Collection |
American Red Cross |
Object Name |
Clipping, Newspaper |
Date |
10/14/1921 |
Scope & Content |
Newspaper clipping from the Chicago Defender (Chicago, IL) published October 14, 1921 and entitled "Ex-Police Bares Plot of Tulsans." This article states that Topeka, KS attorney Elisah Scott, retained by victims of the Tulsa "riot" has obtained a signed affidavit containing a twenty-one-page confession of former Tulsa policeman Van B. Hurley, a Caucasian. In the affidavit, Hurley states that during the "riot" several prominent Tulsa officials gathered and orchestrated an attack on the African American community with the use of airplanes. He states the airplanes dropped nitroglycerin on buildings to set them ablaze. Hurley's affidavit also claims that Captain George G. Blaine [sic, George H. Blaine] rode in one of the airplanes during the "riot." Blaine later was appointed Tulsa Police Chief after the suspension of John A. Gustafson. |
Search Terms |
air raids airplanes Boy Scouts of America fires Greenwood District nitroglycerin Tulsa Police Department Tulsa Race Massacre |
People |
Blaine, George H. Gustafson, John A. Hurley, Van B. Roland, Dick Scott, Elisah |