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Sam Lester Turner 1950 - 2009

Sam Lester Turner of Memphis, Shelby County, TN was born on May 21, 1950, and died at age 58 years old on February 6, 2009. Sam Turner was buried at West Tennessee Veterans Cemetery Section L Site 3086 4000 Forest Hill-irene Rd, in Memphis.
Sam Lester Turner
Memphis, Shelby County, TN 38116
May 21, 1950
February 6, 2009
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  • 05/21
    1950

    Birthday

    May 21, 1950
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    Unknown
    Birthplace
  • Military Service

    Branch of service: Us Marine Corps Rank attained: CPL Wars/Conflicts: Vietnam
  • 02/6
    2009

    Death

    February 6, 2009
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    Unknown
    Cause of death
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    Death location
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    West Tennessee Veterans Cemetery Section L Site 3086 4000 Forest Hill-irene Rd, in Memphis, Tn 38125
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In 1950, in the year that Sam Lester Turner was born, on June 25th, the Korean War began when North Korean Communist forces crossed the 38th parallel. The Soviet Union and China backed North Korea and the U.N., primarily the United States backed South Korea.
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In 1964, Sam was merely 14 years old 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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