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Switch Carpenter 1890 - 1974

Switch Carpenter of Bishopville, Lee County, South Carolina was born on November 20, 1890, and died at age 83 years old in August 1974.
Switch Carpenter
Bishopville, Lee County, South Carolina 29010
November 20, 1890
August 1974
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    1890

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    November 20, 1890
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    1974

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    August 1974
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    Switch Carpenter lived 11 years longer than the average family member when died at the age of 83.
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In 1890, in the year that Switch Carpenter was born, on December 29th, the Wounded Knee Massacre occurred in South Dakota on the Lakota Pine Ridge Indian Reservation . The U.S. 7th Cavalry Regiment said that they rode into the Lakota camp "trying to disarm" the inhabitants. One person, Black Coyote - who was deaf - held onto his rifle, saying that he paid a lot of money for it. Shots rang out and by the end at least 153 Lakota Sioux - some estimates say 300 - and 25 troops had died. The site of the massacre is a National Historic Landmark.
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In 1920, when this person was 30 years old, on November 2, radio station KDKA began broadcasting in Pittsburgh, PA. This was the first commercial radio broadcast in the United States. Westinghouse, a leading manufacturer of radios and the backer of the station, chose the date because of the Presidential election. People liked it because they could hear about the results of the election between Harding and Cox before the morning papers arrived. Four years later, there were 600 commercial stations broadcasting in the U.S.
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