Richard Blackstone Brown
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Special Agent

Richard Blackstone Brown

Accident
End of Watch July 14, 1943
Age 27
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Gender Male

Incident

Agent Brown was killed in an automobile accident in Dallas, Texas, while he and another agent responded to a nightclub to arrest two federal fugitives. The agents were responding with lights and sirens when their vehicle collided with another vehicle. Brown was survived by his wife and five children. He was buried in Muskogee, Oklahoma.

Survivors

Brown was survived by his wife and five children.

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I never knew you. I am standing here anyway.
Special Agent Brown served with the United States Department of Justice.
Thank you for your service. Gone but never to be forgotten.
Rest easy, Special Agent Brown.

— S. Vincent Anthony, U.S. Army 1985-1993

Agency

Type Federal Agency
Location Washington, DC
Platform Identity usdjfbifed.fed.us.gov.nw

Service Record

End of Watch July 14, 1943
Age 27
Gender Male

Incident Details

Cause Accident

The Sacrifice · Accident

Richard is one of 8,275 officers lost to accidents in the United States, 30% of the 27,551 remembered there.

34,117 officers are remembered on this memorial. Each number below is one of them.

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Time

In 1943, 38 officers in the United States were lost to accidents, the 109th heaviest of 174 years on record. The heaviest was 1929, with 118.

Every year on record · United States
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Who

Richard was 27. Of the 7,718 lost to accidents in the United States whose age is recorded, half were between 29 and 46; the middle age was 36.

Age at death
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When

July holds 9.3% of these deaths in the United States; August holds the most, 9.5%. Wednesdays: 14.5%.

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How

Accident deaths account for 30% of all 27,551 deaths in the United States, the 2nd most common cause.

Every cause
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His people

United States Department of Justice - Federal Bureau of Investigation has 89 officers remembered here, Richard among them.

Across the years

Special Agent Richard Blackstone Brown

United States Department of Justice - Federal Bureau of Investigation · End of Watch July 14, 1943

Where the Name Is Cut

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