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Dorothy A Adams 1920 - 2009

Dorothy A Adams of High Point, Guilford County, NC was born on May 9, 1920, and died at age 89 years old on December 18, 2009.
Dorothy A Adams
High Point, Guilford County, NC 27265
May 9, 1920
December 18, 2009
Female
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  • 05/9
    1920

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    May 9, 1920
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  • 12/18
    2009

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    December 18, 2009
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In 1920, in the year that Dorothy A Adams 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 1942, when she was 22 years old, on February 19th, President Roosevelt signed Executive Order 9066. This authorized the Secretary of War to "prescribe certain areas as military zones." On March 21st, he signed Public Law 503 which was approved after an hour discussion in the Senate and 30 minutes in the House. The Law provided for enforcement of his Executive Order. This cleared the way for approximately 120,000 men, women, and children of Japanese ancestry to be evicted from the West Coast and to be held in concentration camps and other confinement sites across the country. In Hawaii, a few thousand were detained. German and Italian Americans in the U.S. were also confined.
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