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Julia Ruuttila, journalist, author, and political activist whose career spanned six decades, gives a speech in Centralia, Washington, on the 60th anniversary of the massacre. In 1936 Ruuttila created a committee that worked for the release of Ray Becker, a Wobblies activist who had been convicted in the 1919 slaying of five men at a labor demonstration in Centralia, Washington. While Becker was never exonerated, his sentenced was commuted, and he was released from prison.
