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Dorothy May Thurman 1918 - 2009

Dorothy May Thurman of Downey, Los Angeles County, California was born on October 14, 1918, and died at age 90 years old on June 7, 2009.
Dorothy May Thurman
Downey, Los Angeles County, California 90242
October 14, 1918
June 7, 2009
Female
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  • 10/14
    1918

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    October 14, 1918
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  • 06/7
    2009

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    June 7, 2009
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    Dorothy May Thurman lived 19 years longer than the average family member when died at the age of 90.
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In 1918, in the year that Dorothy May Thurman was born, on November 1, an elevated train on the Brooklyn line of the subway - driven by an inexperienced operator because of a strike - tried to navigate a turn at 30mph. The limit on the curve was 6 mph. The 2nd and 3rd cars of the 5 car wooden train were badly damaged and at least 93 people were killed, making it the deadliest crash in New York subway history.
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In 1942, she was 24 years old when 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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