If you haven't heard of the singer/songwriter and labor organizer Joe Hill, you're not alone. But the murder trial many considered a frame up was a pivotal moment in labor history, studied in history classes around the world. So why don't more people know about him?
That's a question being asked by Barbara Thayer, who started the Association for the Retention of Cultural Heritages (ARCH) to bring back importan people and historical events that drop off people's radar.
She produced "The Man Who Never Died", a play by Barrie Stavis based on Hill's trial that brought out the likes of Helen Keller and Woodrow Wilson to ask for clemency before he was executed.
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