Publiucations #1: Kudos for "Ned McAdoo and the Molly Maguires"

I liked your story Ned Mcadoo and the Molly Maguires. Is the beginning of your story about seeing the ghost true?

Hopefully the "hovering" did not refer to way he died.

Someone claimed to have once seen Jack Kehoe's ghost as a child when they were not far from his grave.

Youtube has a song about the "ghost of Molly Maguire:
http://youtube.com/watch?v=ncOHnwW2IrE

I'm a law student at the University of Pittsburgh. This year is the 130th anniversary of the executions of Jack Kehoe, Patrick Hester, Peter McHuh, and Patrick Tully. I am including as an attachment a paper I'm submitting to Columbia County's Historical Society.

Hugh Doyle, descendant of Patrick Hester, wrote that he did not favor a posthumous pardon like that given to Jack Kehoe because he believes Hester was innocent and a pardon legally means that the person was 1) guilty and 2) forgiven. Can you tell me if there is a way to overturn a Pennsylvania Supreme Court decision and exonerate an executed person without getting a pardon?

In the Soviet Union, Khruschev legally "rehabilitated" Stalin's convicted executed victims and the Soviet government legally exonerated them. Is posthumous exoneration impossible in America?

Kind Regards,
Hal Smith

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