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Darrell W West 1924 - 1999

Darrell W West of Hopkinsville, Christian County, KY was born on June 21, 1924, and died at age 75 years old on October 23, 1999.
Darrell W West
Hopkinsville, Christian County, KY 42240
June 21, 1924
October 23, 1999
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Darrell W West's History: 1924 - 1999

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  • 06/21
    1924

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    June 21, 1924
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  • 10/23
    1999

    Death

    October 23, 1999
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    Darrell W West lived 3 years longer than the average family member when died at the age of 75.
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In 1924, in the year that Darrell W West was born, in May, wealthy college students Nathan Leopold and Richard Loeb kidnapped and killed 14 year old Robert Franks "in the interest of science". Leopold and Loeb thought that they were intellectually superior and that they could commit the perfect crime and not be caught. They were brought in for questioning within 8 days and quickly confessed. Clarence Darrow was hired as their defense lawyer, getting them life imprisonment instead of a death sentence. Loeb was eventually killed in prison - Leopold was released after 33 years, dying of a heart attack at age 66.
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In 1942, at the age of 18 years old, Darrell was alive when on June 17th, Roosevelt approved the Manhattan Project, which lead to the development of the first atomic bomb. With the support of Canada and the United Kingdom, the Project came to employ more than 130,000 people and cost nearly $2 billion. Julius Robert Oppenheimer, a nuclear physicist born in New York, led the Los Alamos Laboratory that developed the actual bomb. The first artificial nuclear explosion took place near Alamogordo New Mexico on July 16, 1945.
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