Joe Hill, a labor radical convicted in the 1914 murder of a Salt Lake store owner, is the topic of a brown bag lunch lecture presented by Joe Hill biographer and publisher Gibbs M. Smith on Thursday, Nov. 18, at noon in the White Memorial Chapel, south of the state Capitol, 150 W. 300 North.
Hill, a native of Sweden, came to Utah in 1912 to work in the mines in Park City. Hill was arrested in the murder of John Morrison, a grocery store owner who was killed during an armed robbery. Although there was no direct evidence against Hill, circumstantial evidence and a poor defense contributed to his conviction.The monthly lecture series is jointly sponsored by the Utah State Archives and Records Service and the Utah State Historical Society. For more information, see (http://www.archives.state.ut.us/EVENTS2.HTM) or call 533-3545.