Welcome to September 1955!

In Buenos Aires, Argentina, President Juan Peron was ousted in a military coup on September 21. He briefly returned to the presidency in 1973, and his second wife was later the subject of the famed musical, Evita. Down in Sumner, Mississippi, an all-white jury acquitted both defendants in the trial for the murder of black teenager Emmett Till after 67 minutes of deliberations. One juror claimed, “If we hadn’t stopped to drink pop, it wouldn’t have taken that long.”

Back home in New York, the Brooklyn Dodgers bested their crosstown rivals, the Yankees, in the 1955 World Series beginning on September 28. Two years later, the Dodgers played their last game at Ebbets Field and moved to Los Angeles.

Out in Woodside, a terrified 22-year old mother frantically pleade

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