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Richard H Benke 1937 - 2003

Richard H Benke of Monticello, Jones County, IA was born on May 23, 1937, and died at age 66 years old on August 7, 2003.

Richard H Benke

Monticello, Jones County, IA 52310

May 23, 1937

August 7, 2003

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May 23, 1937

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Richard H Benke lived 10 years shorter than the average family member when died at the age of 66.

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In 1937, in the year that Richard H Benke was born, on May 6th, the German zeppelin the Hindenburg caught fire and blew up. The Hindenburg was a passenger ship traveling to Frankfurt Germany. It tried to dock in New Jersey, one of the stops, and something went wrong - it blew up. Thirty-six people were killed out of the 97 on board - 13 passengers, 22 crewmen, and one ground worker. The reasons for the explosion are still disputed.

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In 1943, he was just 6 years old when on June 20th through June 22nd, the Detroit Race Riot erupted at Belle Isle Park. The rioting spread throughout the city (made worse by false rumors of attacks on blacks and whites) and resulted in the deployment of 6,000 Federal troops. 34 people were killed, (25 of them black) - mostly by white police or National Guardsmen, 433 were wounded (75 percent of them black) and an estimated $2 million of property was destroyed. The same summer, there were riots in Beaumont, Texas and Harlem, New York.

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