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Cornelius Vander Wal 1924 - 2009

Cornelius Vander Wal of Corsica, Douglas County, South Dakota was born on February 21, 1924, and died at age 85 years old on April 18, 2009.
Cornelius Vander Wal
Corsica, Douglas County, South Dakota 57328
February 21, 1924
April 18, 2009
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  • 02/21
    1924

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    February 21, 1924
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  • 04/18
    2009

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    April 18, 2009
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    Cornelius Vander Wal lived 17 years longer than the average family member when died at the age of 85.
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In 1924, in the year that Cornelius Vander Wal 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 1948, at the age of 24 years old, Cornelius was alive when on January 30th, Mahatma Gandhi was assassinated in New Delhi by a member of a Hindu nationalist party who thought that Gandhi was too accommodating to Muslims. The man, Nathuram Godse, shot Gandhi 3 times. He died immediately. The shooter was tried, convicted, and hung in November 1949.
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