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Lessel Vance Pitts 1934 - 2011

Lessel Vance Pitts was born on October 11, 1934, and died at age 77 years old on November 3, 2011. Lessel Pitts was buried at West Virginia National Cemetery Section 5 Site 176 42 Veterans Memorial Lane, in Grafton, Wv. Family, friend, or fan, this family history biography is for you to remember Lessel Vance Pitts.

Lessel Vance Pitts
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Lessel Vance Pitts Lessel Pitts (1934 - 2011)
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    Branch of service: Us Air Force Rank attained: A3C Wars/Conflicts: Korea
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In 1934, in the year that Lessel Vance Pitts was born, on July 22nd, gangster John Dillinger was killed in Chicago. His gang had robbed banks and police stations, among other charges, and he was being hunted by J. Edgar Hoover, head of the FBI - although many in the public saw him as a "Robin Hood". A madam from a brothel in which he was hiding became an informer for the FBI and, after a shootout with FBI agents, Dillinger was shot and died.
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In 1943, at the age of merely 9 years old, Lessel was alive when 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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