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Hattie Scarbrough Schwarzwalder

Johnnie Scarbrough

Scarbrough brothers

Martha Louise "Mattie" Scarbrough

Nancy Jane Manning Scarbrough

Henry Columbus Scarbrough

Willie Walden & Jimmy Dillenwater

Willie (Scarbrough) & James Walden

Ila Scarbrough - 4 generations

Ila Pearl (Scarbrough) and William Boyd

Mary (Scarbrough) & Lewis Adams

Roy Scarbrough

Easter Bee Scarbrough family

Albert Espey Scarbrough

Jesse Scarbrough, 1962

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In 1948, in the year that Ronald Scarbrough was born, on January 30th, Mahatma Gandhi was assassinated in New Delhi by a member of a Hindu nationalist party who thought that Gandhi was too accommodating to Muslims. The man, Nathuram Godse, shot Gandhi 3 times. He died immediately. The shooter was tried, convicted, and hung in November 1949.

In 1958, when he was only 10 years old, on January 31st, Explorer I, the United States' answer to Sputnik I (and 2,) was launched. America had entered the Space Race. The first spacecraft to detect the Van Allen radiation belt, it remained in orbit until 1970.

In 1960, at the age of only 12 years old, Ronald 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.

In 1961, when he was just 13 years old, on August 13th, East Germany began erection of what would become the Berlin Wall between East and West Berlin. In one day, they installed barbed wire entanglements and fences (called Barbed Wire Sunday in Germany). On August 17th, the first concrete elements and large blocks were put in place.

In 1971, in the year of Ronald Scarbrough's passing, in March, Congress passed the Twenty-sixth Amendment to the United States Constitution, which lowered the voting age to 18 (from 21). It was a response to the criticism that men could fight at 18, but not vote for the policies and politicians who sent them to war. The states quickly ratified the Amendment and it was signed into law on July 1st by President Richard Nixon.