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Elsie Ruth Compton 1924 - 2006

Elsie Ruth Compton of New Orleans, Orleans County, LA was born on August 5, 1924, and died at age 81 years old on April 3, 2006. Elsie Compton was buried at Barrancas National Cemetery Section 35 Site 4038 Naval Air Station, 1 Cemetery Road, in Pensacola, Fl.
Elsie Ruth Compton
New Orleans, Orleans County, LA 70131
August 5, 1924
April 3, 2006
Female
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  • 08/5
    1924

    Birthday

    August 5, 1924
    Birthdate
    Unknown
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  • Military Service

    Branch of service: Us Navy Rank attained: CAPT Wars/Conflicts: World War Ii, Korea, Vietnam
  • 04/3
    2006

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    April 3, 2006
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    Barrancas National Cemetery Section 35 Site 4038 Naval Air Station, 1 Cemetery Road, in Pensacola, Fl 32508
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In 1924, in the year that Elsie Ruth Compton 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 1961, when she was 37 years old, on May 5th, Navy Cmdr. Alan B. Shepard, Jr., made the first manned Project Mercury flight, MR-3, in a spacecraft he named Freedom 7. He was the second man to go into space, the first was Yuri Gagarin - a Soviet cosmonaut.
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