Swift Justice: Murder & Vengeance In A California Town

In 1933 a nightmare shook the quiet town of San Jose California when a young man named Brooke Hart was abducted while leaving his fathers department store. In the days that followed the Harts local and state police and J. Edgar Hoovers FBI scrambled to outwit the kidnappers whose demands kept them at bay until they–and Brook Harts murder–were at last discovered. Then the unthinkable: A band of vigilantes stormed the San Jose jail and hanged the two criminals in the town square as ten thousand watched. The next day the governor hailed the lynching as “a fine lesson”. The San Jose lynching which divided the nation and haunts the city still is a chilling tale of fear fury and the collapse of justice–of a small American paradise turned inferno.