Notable deaths of 2009

William Zantzinger

January 3

Zantzinger (left) received a six-month sentence in the fatal caning of a black barmaid named Hattie Carroll at a Baltimore charity ball, when Zantzinger was 24. The court decision moved Bob Dylan in 1963 to write a dramatic, almost journalistic song about Carroll and Zantzinger (whose name Dylan changed to "William Zanzinger") that became a classic of modern American folk music. He was 69.

William Zantzinger January 3 Zantzinger (left) received a six-month sentence in the fatal caning of a black barmaid named Hattie Carroll at a Baltimore charity ball, when Zantzinger was 24. The court decision moved Bob Dylan in 1963 to write a dramatic, almost journalistic song about Carroll and Zantzinger (whose name Dylan changed to 'William Zanzinger') that became a classic of modern American folk music. He was 69.
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