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TIL - Henry Ford's chief strikebreaker/union buster, Harry Bennett, was immediately fired after Ford's retirement in 1945. Bennett drew a gun on Jack Bugas who delivered the news. Bugas, a former FBI agent, then took out his own gun and threatened to shoot Bennett in the heart.

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