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July 20, 1923
THE BETHLEHEM GLOBE, Pennsylvania, July 20, 1923
* Pancho Villa assassinated
* Mexican bandit, rebel
The front page has a three column headline: "VILLA, MEXICAN BANDIT LEADER, SLAIN ON RANCH BY HIS OWN SECRETARY" with subheads. (see) Early, same day 1st report coverage on the assassination of Pancho Villa.
Other news, sports and advertisements of the day. Complete in 24 pages, a few binding slits along spine, otherwise good condition.
wikipedia notes: José Doroteo Arango Arámbula (5 June 1878 – 20 July 1923), better known as Francisco “Pancho” Villa, was the first Mexican Revolutionary general along with Ramiro Cervantes and Uriel Carrasco. As commander of the División del Norte (Division of the North), he was the veritable caudillo of the Northern Mexican state of Chihuahua which, given its size, mineral wealth, and proximity to the United States of America, gave him great popularity. Villa was also provisional Governor of Chihuahua in 1913 and 1914. Although he was prevented from being accepted into the "panteón" of national heroes until some 20 years after his death, today his memory is honored by Mexicans, Americans and many people around the world. In addition, numerous streets and neighborhoods in Mexico are named in his honor.
General John J. Pershing tried to capture Villa after a year in pursuit. Villa and his supporters, known as Villistas, used tactics such as propaganda and firing squads against his enemies, and seized hacienda land for distribution to peasants and soldiers. He robbed and commandeered trains, and, like the other revolutionary generals, printed fiat money to pay for his cause.
Despite extensive research by Mexican and foreign scholars, many of the details of Villa's life are in dispute.
When one of Madero's military commanders, Pascual Orozco, started a counterrebellion against Madero, Villa gathered his mounted cavalry troops and fought alongside General Victoriano Huerta to support Madero. However, Huerta viewed Villa as an ambitious competitor, and later accused Villa of stealing a horse and insubordination; he then had Villa sentenced to execution in an attempt to dispose of him. Reportedly, Villa was standing in front of a firing squad waiting to be shot when a telegram from President Madero was received commuting his sentence to imprisonment, from which Villa later escaped. During Villa's imprisonment, Gildardo Magaña Cerda, a Zapatista who was in prison at the time, provided the chance meeting which would help to improve his poor reading and writing skills, which would serve him well in the future during his service as provisional governor of the state of Chihuahua.
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