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Amelia E Rivas 1934 - 2005

Amelia E Rivas of San Antonio, Bexar County, TX was born on May 21, 1934, and died at age 70 years old on April 18, 2005. Amelia Rivas was buried at Ft. Sam Houston National Cemetery Section CNN Site 20 1520 Harry Wurzbach Road, in San Antonio.
Amelia E Rivas
San Antonio, Bexar County, TX 78208
May 21, 1934
April 18, 2005
Female
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  • 05/21
    1934

    Birthday

    May 21, 1934
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  • Military Service

    Branch of service: Us Air Force Rank attained: A2C Wars/Conflicts: Korea
  • 04/18
    2005

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    April 18, 2005
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    Ft. Sam Houston National Cemetery Section CNN Site 20 1520 Harry Wurzbach Road, in San Antonio, Tx 78209
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In 1934, in the year that Amelia E Rivas was born, on July 22nd, gangster John Dillinger was killed in Chicago. His gang had robbed banks and police stations, among other charges, and he was being hunted by J. Edgar Hoover, head of the FBI - although many in the public saw him as a "Robin Hood". A madam from a brothel in which he was hiding became an informer for the FBI and, after a shootout with FBI agents, Dillinger was shot and died.
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In 1943, at the age of just 9 years old, Amelia was alive when on June 20th through June 22nd, the Detroit Race Riot erupted at Belle Isle Park. The rioting spread throughout the city (made worse by false rumors of attacks on blacks and whites) and resulted in the deployment of 6,000 Federal troops. 34 people were killed, (25 of them black) - mostly by white police or National Guardsmen, 433 were wounded (75 percent of them black) and an estimated $2 million of property was destroyed. The same summer, there were riots in Beaumont, Texas and Harlem, New York.
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