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Mary Gillespie 1943 - 1971

Mary Gillespie was born on February 16, 1943, and died at age 28 years old in June 1971. Family, friend, or fan, this family history biography is for you to remember Mary Gillespie.
Mary Gillespie
February 16, 1943
June 1971
Female
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Mary Gillespie's History: 1943 - 1971

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    1943

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    February 16, 1943
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  • 06/dd
    1971

    Death

    June 1971
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    Mary Gillespie lived 45 years shorter than the average family member when died at the age of 28.
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In 1943, in the year that Mary Gillespie 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, when she was just 7 years old, 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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