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David T Roark 1924 - 1997

David T Roark of Scottsdale, Maricopa County, AZ was born on August 18, 1924, and died at age 73 years old on September 14, 1997.
David T Roark
Scottsdale, Maricopa County, AZ 85251
August 18, 1924
September 14, 1997
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  • 08/18
    1924

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    August 18, 1924
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  • 09/14
    1997

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    September 14, 1997
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    David T Roark lived 2 years longer than the average family member when died at the age of 73.
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In 1924, in the year that David T Roark 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 1943, he was 19 years old when on June 20th through June 22nd, the Detroit Race Riot erupted at Belle Isle Park. The rioting spread throughout the city (made worse by false rumors of attacks on blacks and whites) and resulted in the deployment of 6,000 Federal troops. 34 people were killed, (25 of them black) - mostly by white police or National Guardsmen, 433 were wounded (75 percent of them black) and an estimated $2 million of property was destroyed. The same summer, there were riots in Beaumont, Texas and Harlem, New York.
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