history – Page 4 – The Coal Speaker

It was fresh after a new attack on our nation, 60 years after Pearl Harbor. More veterans were still alive, they were ready to lament the new brutal deadly day of 9/11 and compare and contrast it to what they lived through, then 60 years prior..

October 27, 2021 THE COAL SPEAKER

Skooky Things Season 2 Episode 4: Murder of a priest

On Tuesday, September 18, 1990, various news sources began reporting on the murder of Ashland priest Father Leo Heineman..

His case made history and is still being discussed today.

October 14, 2021 THE COAL SPEAKER

Skooky Things Season 2, Episode: And you thought politics was bad today!? Welcome to the Kelayres Massacre

The eve of election day, November 5, 1934, a political feud in the coal mining town erupted into violence. Five died, and dozens were injured in an event that would forever become known as the “Kelayres Massacre.”