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Lynching in San Jose, 1933

In 1933, in San Jose, California, a young man named Brooke Hart was abducted while leaving his father's department store.

Brooke Hart was the 22-year-old son of Alex Hart, owner of San Jose's second largest department store. A recent graduate of Santa Clara University, he had just been made a ... [More]

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