The men shot Simmons three times, cut out his tongue and told his son he had ten days to abandon the family property. The killers took possession of the land and an all-white jury later acquitted the only one of the six men to face trial for the murder. (26 March 1944)
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Wednesday 19th of August 1936 (-) — Poet Federico García Lorca is executed by Nationalist Francists of the Falanga Militia. One of them fired 2 bullets in Lorca's behind because he was a homosexual. Lorca was buried nearby the excution site but until today his grave was never found.