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64 Years Later, Army Repays Wrongfully Convicted Veteran

More than six decades after Samuel Snow was court marshaled for the lynching of an Italian prisoner of war, imprisoned for the crime, and then dishonorably discharged from the Army, his family today received what he wanted all those years: justice. It came in the form of a check for $27,580 - the pay he lost compounded 64 years at six percent interest - after the Army Board for Correction of Military Records found last year that his conviction, and those of three others charged in the same...Full Story
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