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Melvin Wood 1943 - 1968

Melvin Wood was born on May 15, 1943, and died at age 25 years old on May 20, 1968. Melvin Wood was buried at Long Island National Cemetery Section 2J Site 3067 2040 Wellwood Avenue, in Farmingdale, Ny. Family, friend, or fan, this family history biography is for you to remember Melvin Wood.

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    Branch of service: Us Army Rank attained: CPL Wars/Conflicts: Vietnam
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In 1943, in the year that Melvin Wood 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, at the age of only 7 years old, Melvin was alive when 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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