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Richard J Heersma 1950 - 2005

Richard J Heersma of Chicago, Cook County, IL was born on September 16, 1950, and died at age 54 years old on June 12, 2005.

Richard J Heersma
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Chicago, Cook County, IL 60630
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September 16, 1950
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    Richard J Heersma lived 32 years shorter than the average family member when died at the age of 54.
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In 1950, in the year that Richard J Heersma was born, 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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In 1964, at the age of only 14 years old, Richard was alive when in June, three young civil rights workers - Andrew Goodman and Mickey Schwerner from New York City, and James Chaney from Meridian, Mississippi - were kidnapped and murdered in Mississippi. Working with "Freedom Summer", they were registering African-Americans to vote in the Southern states. Their bodies were found two months later. Although it was discovered that the White Knights of the Ku Klux Klan, the Neshoba County Sheriff's Office and the Philadelphia, Mississippi Police Department were involved, only 7 men were convicted and served less than six years.
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