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Bessie J Smith 1935 - 2009

Bessie J Smith of El Dorado, Union County, AR was born on February 3, 1935, and died at age 74 years old on October 8, 2009.
Bessie J Smith
El Dorado, Union County, AR 71730
February 3, 1935
October 8, 2009
Female
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  • 02/3
    1935

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    February 3, 1935
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  • 10/8
    2009

    Death

    October 8, 2009
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    Bessie J Smith lived 2 years longer than the average family member when died at the age of 74.
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In 1935, in the year that Bessie J Smith was born, the BOI's name (the Bureau of Investigation) was changed to the FBI (Federal Bureau of Investigation) and it officially became a separate agency with the Department of Justice. J. Edgar Hoover, the Chief of the BOI, continued in his office and became the first Director of the FBI. The FBI's responsibility is to "detect and prosecute crimes against the United States".
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In 1964, at the age of 29 years old, Bessie was alive when in June, three young civil rights workers - Andrew Goodman and Mickey Schwerner from New York City, and James Chaney from Meridian, Mississippi - were kidnapped and murdered in Mississippi. Working with "Freedom Summer", they were registering African-Americans to vote in the Southern states. Their bodies were found two months later. Although it was discovered that the White Knights of the Ku Klux Klan, the Neshoba County Sheriff's Office and the Philadelphia, Mississippi Police Department were involved, only 7 men were convicted and served less than six years.
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