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In the early 1900s many of Kenedy's gunfighter shootings caused the town to be nicknamed "Six Shooter Junction". [6]During World War II, the Kenedy Allen Detention Camp was located near the outskirts of the town, on a former Civilian Conservation Corps site.
Hempstead is also known for its early 20th-century rough-and-tumble character. The town was informally called Six Shooter Junction. [10] The town has grown in recent years because of its relative closeness to Houston along U.S. Highway 290. The current economy is based on county government, shipping, and a small but growing industrial base.
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The Sixshooter Peaks are two iconic sandstone summits located in Bears Ears National Monument in San Juan County, Utah, United States. [2] [3] The larger and higher North Sixshooter Peak rises to an elevation of 6,379 feet (1,944 meters), whereas South Sixshooter Peak rises to 6,154 feet, with approximately 1.5 miles (2.4 km) separation between the two. [4]
That gaiety hides a deeper, lasting pain at losing loved ones in combat. A 2004 study of Vietnam combat veterans by Ilona PIvar, now a psychologist the Department of Veterans Affairs, found that grief over losing a combat buddy was comparable, more than 30 years later, to that of bereaved a spouse whose partner had died in the previous six months.
A month after Bryan’s death, police caught up with the alleged shooter inside a Motel 6 more than an hour outside Philadelphia. A year later, discrepancy in a witness’s testimony about the man’s height stirred up enough reasonable doubt in the jury for a not-guilty verdict. Police never arrested the accomplice or anyone else for the murder.
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