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Bruce Besson 1964 - 1985

Bruce Besson of Thibodaux, Lafourche County, Louisiana was born on May 18, 1964, and died at age 20 years old in February 1985.
Bruce Besson
Thibodaux, Lafourche County, Louisiana 70301
May 18, 1964
February 1985
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Bruce Besson's History: 1964 - 1985

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  • 05/18
    1964

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    May 18, 1964
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  • 02/dd
    1985

    Death

    February 1985
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    Bruce Besson lived 53 years shorter than the average family member when died at the age of 20.
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In 1964, in the year that Bruce Besson was born, 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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In 1970, at the age of just 6 years old, Bruce was alive when on May 4th, four students at Kent State University in Ohio were shot and killed by National Guardsmen. The students were at a peaceful demonstration protesting the invasion of Cambodia by US forces. There had been precedent for the killing of American college students. The previous year, on May 15th, Alameda County Sheriffs used shotguns against U.C. Berkeley students at a protest for People's Park. One student died, one was blinded, 128 were injured.
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