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John R Elms 1943 - 2008

John R Elms of Springfield, Hampden County, MA was born on December 17, 1943, and died at age 64 years old on April 29, 2008. John Elms was buried at Massachusetts Veterans' Memorial Cemetery Section 2A Row Q Site 598 1390 Main St., in Agawam.
John R Elms
Springfield, Hampden County, MA 01129
December 17, 1943
April 29, 2008
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  • 12/17
    1943

    Birthday

    December 17, 1943
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  • Military Service

    Branch of service: Us Navy Rank attained: MR3 Wars/Conflicts: Vietnam
  • 04/29
    2008

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    April 29, 2008
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    Massachusetts Veterans' Memorial Cemetery Section 2A Row Q Site 598 1390 Main St., in Agawam, Ma 01001
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In 1943, in the year that John R Elms 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, John was merely 7 years old 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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