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Bessie T Craighead 1920 - 2005

Bessie T Craighead of Wirtz, Franklin County, VA was born on March 11, 1920, and died at age 84 years old on January 17, 2005.

Bessie T Craighead

Wirtz, Franklin County, VA 24184

March 11, 1920

January 17, 2005

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1920

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March 11, 1920

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2005

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January 17, 2005

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In 1920, in the year that Bessie T Craighead was born, on January 1, over 6000 people were arrested and put in prison because they were suspected of being communists. . Many had to be released in a few weeks and only 3 guns were found in their homes. The U.S. Department of Justice "red hunt" netted thousands of "radicals" and suspected "communists" and aliens were deported. But the "hunt" ended after Attorney General Palmer forecast a massive radical uprising on May Day and the day passed without incident.

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In 1947, Bessie was 27 years old when in June, the Marshall Plan was proposed to help European nations recover economically from World War II. It passed the conservative Republican Congress in March of 1948. After World War I, the economic devastation of Germany caused by burdensome reparations payments led to the rise of Hitler. The Allies didn't want this to happen again and the Marshall Plan was devised to make sure that those conditions didn't arise again.

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