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Bennie Johnson 1920 - 1987

Bennie Johnson of Brooklyn, Kings County, New York was born on August 22, 1920, and died at age 66 years old in June 1987.
Bennie Johnson
Brooklyn, Kings County, New York 11221
August 22, 1920
June 1987
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Bennie Johnson's History: 1920 - 1987

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    1920

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    August 22, 1920
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  • 06/dd
    1987

    Death

    June 1987
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    Bennie Johnson lived 6 years shorter than the average family member when died at the age of 66.
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In 1920, in the year that Bennie Johnson was born, on November 2, radio station KDKA began broadcasting in Pittsburgh, PA. This was the first commercial radio broadcast in the United States. Westinghouse, a leading manufacturer of radios and the backer of the station, chose the date because of the Presidential election. People liked it because they could hear about the results of the election between Harding and Cox before the morning papers arrived. Four years later, there were 600 commercial stations broadcasting in the U.S.
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In 1933, Bennie was merely 13 years old when Frances Perkins became the first woman to hold a cabinet-level position, appointed by President Roosevelt to serve as Secretary of Labor. She told him that her priorities would be a 40-hour work week, a minimum wage, unemployment compensation, worker’s compensation, abolition of child labor, direct federal aid to the states for unemployment relief, Social Security, a revitalized federal employment service, and universal health insurance. President Roosevelt approved of all of them and most them were implemented during his terms as President. She served until his death in 1945.
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