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David Bergsma 1943 - 1967

David Bergsma was born on June 8, 1943, and died at age 24 years old in June 1967. Family, friend, or fan, this family history biography is for you to remember David Bergsma.
David Bergsma
June 8, 1943
June 1967
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David Bergsma's History: 1943 - 1967

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  • 06/8
    1943

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    June 8, 1943
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  • 06/dd
    1967

    Death

    June 1967
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    David Bergsma lived 52 years shorter than the average family member when died at the age of 23.
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In 1943, in the year that David Bergsma was born, 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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In 1950, at the age of just 7 years old, David was alive when in February, Joe McCarthy gave a speech alleging that he had a list of "members of the Communist Party and members of a spy ring" who worked in the State Department. He went on to chair a committee that investigated not only the State Department but also the administration of President Harry S. Truman, the Voice of America, and the U.S. Army for communist spies - until he was condemned by the U.S. Senate in 1954.
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