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Vernon Ferdinand Dahmer
10 Jan 1966
Hattiesburg, MS
Vernon Dahmer, a well-to-do businessman, offered to pay toll taxes for those who couldn't afford the fee required to vote.
The night after a radio station broadcast Dahmer's offer, his house was firebombed. Dahmer, 57, fought off the terrorists while his family escaped. He died the next day from severe burns. |