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Melvin Witherspoon 1954 - 1972

Melvin Witherspoon was born on January 14, 1954, and died at age 18 years old in June 1972. Family, friend, or fan, this family history biography is for you to remember Melvin Witherspoon.

Melvin Witherspoon

January 14, 1954

June 1972

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January 14, 1954

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June 1972

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Melvin Witherspoon lived 52 years shorter than the average family member when died at the age of 18.

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In 1954, in the year that Melvin Witherspoon was born, from April 22 through June 17th, the Army v. McCarthy hearings were held. The U.S. Army accused Roy Cohn (chief counsel to Senator McCarthy and later trusted mentor of Donald Trump) of blackmail. McCarthy and Cohn accused the U.S. Army of harboring communists. The Army allegations were found to be true. The U.S. Senate later censured McCarthy.

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In 1960, at the age of merely 6 years old, Melvin was alive when on May 1st, an American CIA U-2 spy plane, piloted by Francis Gary Powers, was shot down by a surface-to-air missile over the Soviet Union. Powers ejected and survived but was captured. The U.S. claimed that the U-2 was a "weather plane" but Powers was convicted in the Soviet Union of espionage. He was released in 1962 after 1 year, 9 months and 10 days in prison.

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