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Helen Sweetser Yocum 1922 - 2009

Helen Sweetser Yocum of Akron, Summit County, OH was born on February 20, 1922, and died at age 87 years old on February 26, 2009.
Helen Sweetser Yocum
Akron, Summit County, OH 44313
February 20, 1922
February 26, 2009
Female
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    1922

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    February 20, 1922
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  • 02/26
    2009

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    February 26, 2009
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    Helen Sweetser Yocum lived 14 years longer than the average family member when died at the age of 87.
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In 1922, in the year that Helen Sweetser Yocum was born, on June 22, coal miners in Herrin Illinois, were on strike (coal miners had been on strike nationally since April 1). The striking miners were outraged at the strikebreakers (scabs) that the company had brought in and laid siege to the mine. Three union workers were killed when gunfire was exchanged. The next day, union miners killed 23 strikebreakers and mine guards. No one, on either side, ever faced jail time.
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In 1960, at the age of 38 years old, Helen was alive when on May 1st, an American CIA U-2 spy plane, piloted by Francis Gary Powers, was shot down by a surface-to-air missile over the Soviet Union. Powers ejected and survived but was captured. The U.S. claimed that the U-2 was a "weather plane" but Powers was convicted in the Soviet Union of espionage. He was released in 1962 after 1 year, 9 months and 10 days in prison.
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