On the evening of November 5, 1934, in the small coal-mining village of Kelayres, Pennsylvania, a politically charged atmosphere turned deadly, claiming the life of Frank Fiorilla, a 65-year-old male. Fiorilla was participating in an election-eve parade and rally for the Democratic party when gunfire erupted from the home of Joseph James Bruno, the local Republican boss widely known as 'Big Joe.' The parade, a lively procession of political hope, was tragically ambushed as it passed Bruno's resi
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