Item
Bibliographic Resource
God Bless You all I’m Innocent
- Title of the Document
- God Bless You all I’m Innocent
- One Line Summary
- This newspaper article is from a local Chattanooga newspaper and came out the day after the lynching of Ed Johnson.
- Author
- Michael D. Webb
- Date Created
- 1906
- Location
- Chattanooga, Tennessee
- Type of Document
- Newspaper Article
- Publisher
- Chattanooga Daily Times
- Transcription
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“‘God bless you all— I am innocent.” Ed Johnson’s last words before being shot to death by a mob like a dog. Majesty of the law outraged by lynchers.”
- Related
- Sheriff Joseph Shipp & Nevada Taylor
- Provenance
- Webb, Michael D. “‘God Bless You All—I Am Innocent’: Sheriff Joseph F. Shipp, Chattanooga, Tennessee, and the Lynching of Ed Johnson,” Tennessee Historical Quarterly 58, no. 2 (1906): 156–79. http://www.jstor.org/stable/42628468.