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Omie Gillespie 1920 - 2010

Omie Gillespie of Leicester, Buncombe County, NC was born on April 26, 1920, and died at age 90 years old on July 11, 2010.
Omie Gillespie
Leicester, Buncombe County, NC 28748
April 26, 1920
July 11, 2010
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  • 04/26
    1920

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    April 26, 1920
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  • 07/11
    2010

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    July 11, 2010
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In 1920, in the year that Omie Gillespie was born, Italian born factory worker Nicola Sacco and fish peddler Bartolomeo Vanzetti were picked up by police on May 5th in connection with the April 15th murder and robbery of a guard and a paymaster at the Slater and Morrill Shoe Company in South Braintree, Mass. Although in later years they were thought to be innocent, they were anarchists and were convicted of the crime and put to death.
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In 1934, Omie was only 14 years old when 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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