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Posts Tagged ‘1906 Springfield MO Lynching’

The Story of Fred Coker, Horace Duncan, and Will Allen – 1906 Lynching

By History Museum | 10/20/2021

Current Setting Just as there is with every town, Springfield has both great and unsavory aspects of its history.  On Saturday, April 14, 1906, three innocent men, Fred Coker, Horace Duncan, and Will Allen were brutally murdered and hanged in Springfield’s public square.  This is the same public square that the History Museum on the…

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