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Helen Marie Smith Mixon Orr 1924 - 2008

Helen Marie Smith Mixon Orr of Ridgeland, Jasper County, SC was born on July 6, 1924, and died at age 83 years old on February 9, 2008.
Helen Marie Smith Mixon Orr
Ridgeland, Jasper County, SC 29936
July 6, 1924
February 9, 2008
Female
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Helen Marie Smith Mixon Orr's History: 1924 - 2008

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  • 07/6
    1924

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    July 6, 1924
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  • 02/9
    2008

    Death

    February 9, 2008
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    Helen Marie Smith Mixon Orr lived 10 years longer than the average family member when died at the age of 83.
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In 1924, in the year that Helen Marie Smith Mixon Orr was born, in May, wealthy college students Nathan Leopold and Richard Loeb kidnapped and killed 14 year old Robert Franks "in the interest of science". Leopold and Loeb thought that they were intellectually superior and that they could commit the perfect crime and not be caught. They were brought in for questioning within 8 days and quickly confessed. Clarence Darrow was hired as their defense lawyer, getting them life imprisonment instead of a death sentence. Loeb was eventually killed in prison - Leopold was released after 33 years, dying of a heart attack at age 66.
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In 1950, at the age of 26 years old, Helen 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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