Every now and again, as I’ve written about him a few times in the past, I get an odd call about infamous Ford enforcer Harry Bennett, who built a fortress not far from here in 1930 to protect him from his many enemies. Not too long ago, as you might recall, a man contacted me […]
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If all goes well, in a few days, I’ll be meeting a man whose father built the secret tunnels beneath Harry Bennett’s castle on the Huron River
Posted in Ann Arbor, Corporate Crime, History, Uncategorized, Ypsilanti Also tagged anti-union, Arthur Brisbane, Battle of the Overpass, Benjamin Stolberg, Black Legion, Ford, Ford Service Department, Gestapo, guns, Harry Bennett, Hitler, intimidation, KKK, labor history, lions, murder, paranoia, Rouge plant, The Black Legion Rides, tunnels, union busting, unions 9 Comments
Walking the secret passageways of Harry Bennett’s heavily-fortified Ypsilanti castle
I just received a note from Nathan Ayers, the guy who won the first $1,000 grant from A2Awesome. He wanted to let me know that, back in 1984, the television program PM Magazine ran a feature on Harry Bennett’s fortress on the banks of the Huron River, in Ypsilanti. Bennett, for those of you don’t […]
Posted in A2Awesome, History, Ypsilanti Also tagged anti-Semitic, automotive industry, Battle of the Overpass, Charles Coughlin, Communism, exotic animals, FDR, fear of Communism, Flint, Ford Hunger March, Ford Motor Company, Ford Service Department, Ford's Service Department, General Motors, Great Depression, Greenfield Village, Harry Bennett, Harry Bennett's Castle, Henry Ford, Hilter, Huron River, industrial revolution, labor history, lions, mansions, manufacturing, middle class, murder, Nathan Ayers, New Deal, PM Magazine, private armies, race baiting, River Rouge, safe house, secret passageways, strike breaking, threats to the middle class, tigers, turrets, union busting, Walter Reuther 36 Comments