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Ray Snow, son of Sam Snow, offers remarks at the Ft. Lawton ceremony.

Mr. Sam Snow and other African American soldiers were wrongly convicted of participating in a 1944 riot at Seattle’s Fort Lawton that resulted in the lynching of an Italian prisoner of war.  They were dishonorably discharged from the service, several were imprisoned and their lives were forever changed over a crime they did not commit.

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