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‘William Zantzinger, the white Maryland tobacco farmer immortalized in a Bob Dylan song for the 1963 killing of a black Baltimore barmaid, has died. Zantzinger, inebriated from a night on the town, struck Hattie Carroll with a cane when she was slow bringing him a bourbon. Carroll, a 51-year-old mother of 11 children, died from a brain hemorrhage 8 hours later. Zantzinger was convicted of manslaughter and served 6 months. Dylan recorded “The Lonesome Death of Hattie Carroll” in 1964.’
via Newser [thanks, walker].
The NY Times had a longer, more informative and very interesting obituary (http://www.nytimes.com/2009/01/10/us/10zantzinger.html?scp=1&sq=zantzinger&st=cse)
I was amazed how little attention it got: to me, it was as if a news story suddenly announced the death of Jason Compson from The Sound and the Fury. My family and I went to a Pete Seeger (and other folk-music types) concert the night of the Times obit, and I wondered if someone would mention it. No one did.
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