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Bessie Rushing 1926 - 2005

Bessie Rushing of Verona, Boone County, KY was born on June 18, 1926, and died at age 79 years old on September 22, 2005.
Bessie Rushing
Verona, Boone County, KY 41092
June 18, 1926
September 22, 2005
Female
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  • 06/18
    1926

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    June 18, 1926
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  • 09/22
    2005

    Death

    September 22, 2005
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    Bessie Rushing lived 9 years longer than the average family member when died at the age of 79.
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In 1926, in the year that Bessie Rushing was born, on November 15th, NBC was founded. It was the U.S.'s first major broadcast network. Ownership of the network was split between RCA (a majority partner at 50%), its founding corporate parent General Electric (which owned 30%), and Westinghouse (which owned the remaining 20%).
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In 1933, Bessie was only 7 years old when the day after being inaugurated, the new President, Franklin Roosevelt, declared a four-day bank holiday to stop people from withdrawing their money from shaky banks (the bank run). Within 5 days of his administration, the Emergency Banking Act was passed - reorganizing banks and closing insolvent ones. In his first 100 days, he asked Congress to repeal Prohibition (which they did), signed the Tennessee Valley Authority Act, signed legislation that paid commodity farmers to leave their fields fallow, thus ending surpluses and boosting prices, signed a bill that gave workers the right to unionize and bargain collectively for higher wages and better working conditions as well as suspending some antitrust laws and establishing a federally funded Public Works Administration, and won passage of 12 other major laws that helped the economy.
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