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Fourteen-year-old Delia Green is shot dead by fifteen-year-old Mose Houston in Yamacraw, Savannah, Georgia, USA. The grim story of the killing will inspire the murder ballad Delia's Gone, recorded by Blind Willie McTell, Bob Dylan, Johnny Cash, The Kingston Trio, Pete Seeger and many others.
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