Eighty-year

Eighty-year years ago this same weekend, brave World War I veterans and coal miners endured bombings by hired coal company thugs to march on and liberate the same Logan County residents in West Virginia from the stranglehold of union-denying Big Coal.

Jeff Biggers: Labor Day of Infamy: Who Killed the Jobs of Van Jones and Coal Miners? 2009

Eighty-year old Harry Young protested racist vandalism on his land, trying to get the world to pay attention to his plight and the plight of hundreds of black and white farmers nationwide.

Black farmer takes to the streets to protest KKK activity on his farm 2007

Eighty-year - old Carl Muscarella (ph), whom you saw there, used to be a police officer, and he got one of the attackers in a choke hold and wouldn't let go until the police arrived.

CNN Transcript Sep 17, 2006 2006

Eighty-year - old Edgar Ray Killen is accused of being the mastermind in the murders of three civil rights workers 41 years ago today.

CNN Transcript Jun 21, 2005 2005