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Bessie J Smith 1909 - 1992

Bessie J Smith of Spanish Fork, Utah County, UT was born on April 5, 1909, and died at age 83 years old in December 1992.
Bessie J Smith
Spanish Fork, Utah County, UT 84660
April 5, 1909
December 1992
Female
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    1909

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    April 5, 1909
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  • 12/dd
    1992

    Death

    December 1992
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    Bessie J Smith lived 11 years longer than the average family member when died at the age of 83.
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In 1909, in the year that Bessie J Smith was born, the New York Times published the first movie review. It was a report on D.W. Griffith's movie "Pippa Passes" also called "The Song of Conscience", a silent film. The review said that this work was moving away from "lurid material that attracted the wrath of censors and concerned citizens and toward more respectable ends. The movie was the story of a young female factory worker, on her day off, wandering and singing - thus changing the hearts of those around her towards good.
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In 1927, by the time she was 18 years old, in September, the Columbia Broadcasting System (later called CBS) became the second national radio network in the U.S. The first broadcast was a presentation by the Howard Barlow Orchestra from radio station WOR in Newark, New Jersey.
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