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John T Speed 1943 - 2010

John T Speed of Bryant Pond, Oxford County, ME was born on January 12, 1943, and died at age 67 years old on December 13, 2010. John Speed was buried at Maine Veterans' Memorial Cemetery - Mt Vernon Rd Section A Row 25 Site 18 163 Mt Vernon Road - R 5 Box 615, in Augusta.
John T Speed
Bryant Pond, Oxford County, ME 04219
January 12, 1943
December 13, 2010
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  • 01/12
    1943

    Birthday

    January 12, 1943
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  • Military Service

    Branch of service: Us Marine Corps Rank attained: LCPL
  • 12/13
    2010

    Death

    December 13, 2010
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    Maine Veterans' Memorial Cemetery - Mt Vernon Rd Section A Row 25 Site 18 163 Mt Vernon Road - R 5 Box 615, in Augusta, Me 04330
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In 1943, in the year that John T Speed 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 1957, he was merely 14 years old when on September 24th, the "Little Rock Nine" (nine African-American students) entered Little Rock High School. Arkansas Gov. Orval Faubus had previously prevented the students from entering the school at the beginning of the term with the Arkansas National Guard - they blocked the door. President Eisenhower ordered federal troops - the 101st Airborne Division of the United States Army - to guard the students and allow them entry.
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