How do you know your “witness” is telling the truth? I’ve read articles about the riot, but nobody has yet determined how many people were actually killed. The old guy’s statements sound like the ones made after Hurricane Katrina where people swore the dikes were dynamited by Bush and Cheney. Sorry, we’ll need more data than the “testimony” of a single person who admitted he didn’t see a lot of the purported violence.
I have no idea if he was telling the truth or not but I am pretty sure he was there.
I have no idea what a turpentine bomb is either, maybe something they made up but that was the story going around. He was not btw trying to make it look like the Blacks were in the right, just saying how much killing was going on.