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Leigh Gordon McCankie 1950 - 1983

Leigh Gordon McCankie of Footscray Australia was born on January 9, 1950 to Leonard Gordon McCankie and June Elizabeth McCanke (Nee Gash). Leigh McCankie died at age 33 years old in June 1983 in Footscray, Vic, and was buried in June 1983 at Altona Memorial Park Dohertys Rd, in Altona North, Hobsons Bay City County.
Leigh Gordon McCankie
Footscray Australia
January 9, 1950
June 1983
Footscray, Vic, Australia
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  • 01/9
    1950

    Birthday

    January 9, 1950
    Birthdate
    Unknown
    Birthplace
  • Professional Career

    Sales
  • 06/dd
    1983

    Death

    June 1983
    Death date
    Unknown
    Cause of death
    Footscray, Vic Australia
    Death location
  • 06/dd
    1983

    Gravesite & Burial

    June 1983
    Funeral date
    Altona Memorial Park Dohertys Rd, in Altona North, Hobsons Bay City County, VIC 3025, Australia
    Burial location
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In 1950, in the year that Leigh Gordon McCankie was born, on October 2, Charlie Brown appeared in the first Peanuts comic strip - created by Charles Schultz - and he was the only character in that strip. That year, Schultz said that Charlie was 4 years old, but Charlie aged a bit through the years.
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In 1964, at the age of merely 14 years old, Leigh was alive 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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