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Jerome Wesley Lyon 1935 - 2006

Jerome Wesley Lyon of Anderson, Anderson County, South Carolina was born on May 6, 1935, and died at age 71 years old on November 7, 2006.
Jerome Wesley Lyon
Anderson, Anderson County, South Carolina 29624
May 6, 1935
November 7, 2006
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  • 05/6
    1935

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    May 6, 1935
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  • 11/7
    2006

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    November 7, 2006
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    Jerome Wesley Lyon lived 4 years shorter than the average family member when died at the age of 71.
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In 1935, in the year that Jerome Wesley Lyon was born, on September 8th, Louisiana Senator Huey Long was shot by Dr. Carl Weiss. Weiss was shot and killed immediately by Long's bodyguards - Long died two days later from his injuries. Long had received many death threats previously, as well as threats against his family. He was a powerful and controversial figure in Louisiana politics (and probably gained power through multiple criminal acts). His opponents became frustrated with their attempts to oust him and Dr. Weiss was the son-in-law of one of those opponents. His funeral was attended by 200,000 mourners.
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In 1964, Jerome was 29 years old 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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