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Sheldon Berenson 1924 - 1984

Sheldon Berenson of Kansas City, Jackson County, Missouri was born on January 7, 1924, and died at age 60 years old in July 1984.
Sheldon Berenson
Kansas City, Jackson County, Missouri 64113
January 7, 1924
July 1984
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    1924

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    January 7, 1924
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  • 07/dd
    1984

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    July 1984
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    Sheldon Berenson lived 17 years shorter than the average family member when died at the age of 60.
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In 1924, in the year that Sheldon Berenson was born, in May, wealthy college students Nathan Leopold and Richard Loeb kidnapped and killed 14 year old Robert Franks "in the interest of science". Leopold and Loeb thought that they were intellectually superior and that they could commit the perfect crime and not be caught. They were brought in for questioning within 8 days and quickly confessed. Clarence Darrow was hired as their defense lawyer, getting them life imprisonment instead of a death sentence. Loeb was eventually killed in prison - Leopold was released after 33 years, dying of a heart attack at age 66.
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In 1943, Sheldon was 19 years old when 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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