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The Molly Maguires, a feature film starring Richard Harris as James McParland and Sean Connery as Molly leader Jack Kehoe was released in 1970.
Decades of research suggest that the Pinkerton National Detective Agency and a hostile press used this pejorative term to persuade a credulous public that a gang of Irish outlaws—the so-called “Molly Maguires”—had banded together in the 1870s to terrorize the Pennsylvania coalfields.
Dec 18, 2008 · On this date in 1878, John “Black Jack” Kehoe was hanged in Pottsville — as Pennsylvania’s anthracite trusts took a victory lap around the corpses of the Molly Maguires. Even to say what the Mollies were is to take a side in their life-and-death struggle.
In a revenge attack ordered by Jack Kehoe, three Mollys shoot "Bully Bill" Thomas and leave him for dead, though Thomas survives. McParlan had advance knowledge of the attack, but is unable to warn the victim (for fear of blowing his cover).
Mar 18, 2021 · Those 10 men were accused of being Molly Maguires, members of a secret society of Irish-American coal miners who believed violent rebellion was the only way to obtain justice from their cruel and greedy bosses. John “Black Jack” Kehoe, who newspapers called “King of the Mollies,” was spared the Day of the Rope.
Jack Kehoe, leader of the Molly Maguires in Girardville, Pa. In 1875, a writer of the time observed, there came from coal-mining district of Pennsylvania "an appalling series of tales of murder, of arson, and of every description of violent crime."
In Audenried, Carbon County, Pennsylvania, at an Independence Day celebration, several coal miners considered members of a group called the Molly Maguires, expressed their opposition to the war. Kehoe allegedly participated by spitting on the American flag.
