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Walter Eugene Shipes 1950 - 2006

Walter Eugene Shipes of Early Branch, Hampton County, South Carolina was born on December 9, 1950, and died at age 55 years old on May 27, 2006.
Walter Eugene Shipes
Early Branch, Hampton County, South Carolina 29916
December 9, 1950
May 27, 2006
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  • 12/9
    1950

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    December 9, 1950
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  • 05/27
    2006

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    May 27, 2006
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    Walter Eugene Shipes lived 14 years shorter than the average family member when died at the age of 55.
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In 1950, in the year that Walter Eugene Shipes 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, by the time he was merely 14 years old, 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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