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Witness at Hawks Nest

A riveting story of friendship betrayed, love across the color barrier, and a whistleblower’s stand against corporate deciept and murder.

1930

Twenty-five cents-an-hour jobs attract thousands of men, two-thirds of them black, to dig and drill Union Carbide’s Hawks Nest (WV) tunnel…at least 800, possibly over 1,500, workers die of acute silicosis in America’s worst industrial disaster. The company covers up the

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Praise for Witness:

“Witness at Hawks Nest is a welcome addition to literature about that horrific incident. Harshbarger gives faces and voices to the victims – the men who dug the Hawks Nest tunnel and fell victim to one of the worst industrial disasters in the nation, and the families who loved them.”

Denise Giardina, author of Storming Heaven and The Unquiet Earth

“In the plain-spoken language of the people he writes about, Dwight Harshbarger has written a compelling tale of disaster and injustice. Harshbarger’s respect for the history and for the comman man shines through in Witness at Hawks Nest. What the book reveals is shocking and deeply relevant to our discussion of America’s future in the twenty-first century.”

David Huddle, author of Paper Boy, Only the Little Bone, and Glory River

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