Showing posts with label Harry Bennett. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Harry Bennett. Show all posts
Sunday, August 31, 2025

Labor strife--Walter P. Reuther Assassination Attempt Foiled

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Walter P. Reuther, recently re-elected to a second term as United Automobile Workers (UAW) president, lived with his wife May and their ...
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Saturday, August 3, 2024

Hoarders Henry and Clara B. Ford

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Clara B. and Henry Ford After Mrs. Clara Bryant Ford died at the age of eighty-four on September 29, 1950, lawyers, executors, and archivist...
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Thursday, December 30, 2021

The Tragedy of Edsel Ford - Death by a Thousand Cuts

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Edsel Ford Unlike Edsel Ford's children, Edsel was not born in the lap of luxury. His father and mother, Henry and Clara, lived on the c...
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Wednesday, September 15, 2021

"We Never Called Him Henry"-- Harry Bennett Polishes His Own Apple--Part Two

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Harry Bennett with Henry Ford in Willow Run. Much of Harry Bennett's "tell-all" memoir of his time with Henry Ford reads like ...
Wednesday, September 8, 2021

Harry Bennett "Tell-All" Book About His Boss Henry Ford

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Reprinted 1987 paperback edition. Harry Bennett officially joined the Ford Motor Company (FoMoCo) in 1917 at the Highland Park plant where t...
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Tuesday, December 1, 2015

Henry Ford's Tough Guy--Harry Bennett

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Harry Bennett Harry Herbert Bennett was born in Ann Arbor, Michigan on January 17, 1892. At the age of seventeen, he joined the United ...
Tuesday, September 15, 2015

Harry Bennett's Role in the Ypsilanti Torch Murders of August 11, 1931

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Torch Murderers Frank Oliver, Fred Smith, and David Blackstone protected from the lynch mob outside by Washtenaw County Police and Harry ...
Tuesday, September 18, 2012

Ford Henchman, Harry Bennett, and His Hidden Estate in Ypsilanti

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Harry Bennett and Henry Ford During the turbulent 1920's and 1930's, the automobile manufactures stood firm against trade union...
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