By Fred Steiner
www.BlufftonForever.com
In November 1945 Bluffton resident Betty Steinman experienced a brush with history like no other person in Bluffton.
It is one of several interesting brushes with history that Bluffton residents reported in The Bluffton News. Some of those account follow Betty’s. Each of the account in this feature are from the mid-1940s. `
Betty, whose nephew Jeremy Szabo lives in Bluffton, was an eye-witness to the war-criminal trial of Japanese General Yamashita at Manila. She wrote about her experience in a letter to her parents Forrest and Joyce Steinman, which was published on the front page of The Bluffton News in late November 1945.
Betty was on her way to the Philippines and Japan in Red Cross welfare work, when the group she was will stopped in Manila.
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