Bloody Thursday
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Bloody Thursday (July 5th, 1934) street fighting
Photo: San Francisco History Center, San Francisco Public Library
Tear gas flying at Bryant and Beale Streets, July 1934.
Photo: OpenSFHistory.org wnp33.00021
Howard Sperry and Gene Olson, fatally shot by police on Mission Street at Steuart during Bloody Thursday, July 5, 1934.
Photo: San Francisco History Center, San Francisco Public Library
July 5th saw a pitched confrontation between workers on one side and scabs and police on the other.
Bloody Thursday newsreel, Pathe News, 1934
Video: Prelinger Archive
