Who Is The REAL Billy Gohl, and What Does His True Crime Story Have To Do With Labor History? With Aaron Goings and Connor Casey

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On this special episode, we're taking a deep dive into "True Crime" territory... Billy Gohl was called "The Ghoul of Grays Harbor" in the early 20th Century when he was accused of being the murderer who dumped several bodies into the canals around Aberdeen. Was he one of America's first serial killers? 

Find out when Shannon and Harold talk with author Aaron Goings (https://www.stmartin.edu/directory/aaron-goings-phd) about who the REAL Billy Gohl was, and why his story is actually a Labor history story.

You can buy Aaron's book about Billy Gohl, The Port of Missing Men, online at Powell's Books - and you can support Powells' union by purchasing it through ILWU Local 5's "partner link" - https://www.powells.com/?partnerID=35751

Then Conor Casey (https://labor.washington.edu/content/conor-casey) from the Labor Archives of Washington (https://www.lib.washington.edu/specialcollections/laws/) drops by to tell Harold and Shannon about some more Washington Labor history, why it needs to be preserved, and what he'd like to do to help ensure Labor history is taught in schools.

Some of the resources Conor mentions include:

The Labor Archives of Washington Virtual Reading Room: https://cal.lib.uw.edu/space/123219

The Wing Luke Museum: https://www.wingluke.org/

The University of Washington's Labor Studies Minor: https://labor.washington.edu/labor-studies-minor

The Society of American Archivists Labor Archives Section: https://www2.archivists.org/groups/labor-archives-section

The Seattle Civil Rights and Labor History Project: http://depts.washington.edu/civilr/index.htm

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