Birth(+)Fact(x)Death(-)Calendar ||| 28 August 1955

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Bartsch was an illegitimate child whose birth mother died of tuberculosis soon afterward, and he spent the first months of his life being cared for by nurses. At 11 months he was adopted by a butcher and his wife in Langenberg, who gave him the name Jürgen Bartsch.
(6 November 1946)

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BirthFactDeath (-) Sunday 28th of August 1955 69 years ago He Made Physical and Verbal Advances
Black Emmett Louis Till aka Bobo lynched for offending white 21-year-old Carolyn Bryant in her family's grocery store four days before at the age of 14 in Money, Mississippi, United States. Till was abducted and beaten and mutilated before being shot in the head and his body thrown in the Tallahatchie River. Tens of thousands attended Till's funeral or viewed his open casket and images of his mutilated body were published in black-oriented magazines and newspapers. In September 1955 an all-white jury found Carolyn's 24-year-old husband Roy Bryant and his 34-year-old half-brother John William Milam not guilty of Till's kidnapping and murder.