Lynching of Olli Kinkkonen

Olli (Olof) Kiukkonen Kinkkonen (June 10, 1880 – September 18, 1918) was a Finnish-American dockworker and logger. He was lynched in Duluth, Minnesota, by the Knights of Liberty on September 18, 1918, for renouncing his American citizenship because he wanted to avoid fighting in World War I. == Death == On September 11, 1918, Kinkkonen (who also went by the name Olli Wirta) and five others renounced their rights to U.S. citizenship because they did not want to fight in World War I. The night of September 18, a small vigilante mob formed and went searching for him, one man dressed in a military uniform.

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