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Wilson Chafin 1954 - 1983

Wilson Chafin was born on January 29, 1954, and died at age 29 years old in December 1983. Family, friend, or fan, this family history biography is for you to remember Wilson Chafin.
Wilson Chafin
January 29, 1954
December 1983
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Wilson Chafin's History: 1954 - 1983

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  • 01/29
    1954

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    January 29, 1954
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  • 12/dd
    1983

    Death

    December 1983
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    Unknown
    Cause of death
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    Wilson Chafin lived 42 years shorter than the average family member when died at the age of 29.
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In 1954, in the year that Wilson Chafin was born, from April 22 through June 17th, the Army v. McCarthy hearings were held. The U.S. Army accused Roy Cohn (chief counsel to Senator McCarthy and later trusted mentor of Donald Trump) of blackmail. McCarthy and Cohn accused the U.S. Army of harboring communists. The Army allegations were found to be true. The U.S. Senate later censured McCarthy.
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In 1964, at the age of just 10 years old, Wilson was alive 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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