Today in History: Eugene V. Debs arrested
- Posted on June 30, 2025
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Today in History: Eugene V. Debs arrested

On June 30, 1918, labor activist and socialist Eugene V. Debs was arrested in Cleveland, charged under the Espionage Act of 1917 for a speech he had made two weeks earlier in which he denounced U.S…