Blame the Immigrants

Years later, as Will Taft is on a meteoric rise through the ranks towards US President and Supreme Court Justice, he reveals that all he learned from the Cincinnati National Guard Massacre was that when the working class rise up in protest, soldiers need to mow them down in the streets. But in 1884, the last chance to hold any of the people responsible for the massacre accountable is squandered by the County Coroner for blatantly and shamefully partisan political reasons. The Coroner’s “Inquest” becomes the coup de grace.