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Blogs Liberty and Power Fifty Years Later: The Murder of George W. Lee

May 18, 2005

Fifty Years Later: The Murder of George W. Lee

by Liberty and Power

George W. Lee is not as familiar to our readers as Benjamin Tucker, Rose Wilder Lane, or Herbert Spencer but he was a fighter for liberty who deserves recognition. Today is the fiftieth anniversary of his tragic, but now generally forgotten, murder. We discuss's Lee and death in an article for HNN. For the rest, see here .