The guy was, at his time considered almost a Christlike figure who would give you the shirt off his back. He was just an incredible human being. He [Debs] goes to jail in, I think it was Atlanta Federal Penitentiary with hardened criminals. And three years later, he's released from jail, and all of the prisoners start banging on their cells and on the windows and thanks them, because while he was there, he educated them, you know, helped them read and so forth and so on. (00:11–00:51)
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Asserts that Eugene Debs was imprisoned in Atlanta Federal Penitentiary.
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