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Bernice Pinkston 1911 - 1998

Bernice Pinkston of Willisburg, Washington County, KY was born on August 4, 1911, and died at age 86 years old on January 2, 1998.

Bernice Pinkston

Willisburg, Washington County, KY 40078

August 4, 1911

January 2, 1998

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In 1911, in the year that Bernice Pinkston was born, the United States Supreme Court broke up Standard Oil in May. John D. Rockefeller established Standard Oil in 1870 and it was the largest oil refinery at the time. The Supreme Court found that Standard Oil of New Jersey (one of the many iterations of Standard Oil) was guilty of "monopolizing the petroleum industry through a series of abusive and anticompetitive actions". The Court broke up the several entities that comprised Standard Oil and they eventually became competing firms.

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In 1960, at the age of 49 years old, Bernice was alive when on May 1st, an American CIA U-2 spy plane, piloted by Francis Gary Powers, was shot down by a surface-to-air missile over the Soviet Union. Powers ejected and survived but was captured. The U.S. claimed that the U-2 was a "weather plane" but Powers was convicted in the Soviet Union of espionage. He was released in 1962 after 1 year, 9 months and 10 days in prison.

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