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Ernest Eastwoo (1906 - 1976)

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Ernest Eastwoo
1906 - 1976
Born
May 2, 1906
Death
September 1976
Last Known Residence
New Bedford, Bristol County, Massachusetts 02746
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Ernest Eastwoo of New Bedford, Bristol County, Massachusetts was born on May 2, 1906, and died at age 70 years old in September 1976.
Updated: October 3, 2011
Biography ID: 6261605

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Ernest Eastwoo passed away at age 70 years old in September 1976. Ernest Eastwoo of New Bedford, Bristol County, Massachusetts was born on May 2, 1906.

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1906 - 1976 World Events

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In 1906, in the year that Ernest Eastwoo was born, author Upton Sinclair exposed the public-health threat of the meat-packing industry in his book The Jungle. While his intent was to show the lives of exploited lives of immigrants in Chicago and other industrialized cities, most people were horrified by how the meat that ended up on their tables was handled. There was such an outcry that legislation was passed to regulate meat packing. Sinclair said " "I aimed at the public's heart, and by accident I hit it in the stomach."

In 1922, he was 16 years old when the Lincoln Memorial was dedicated in Washington, D.C. on May 30th. More than 35,000 people attended the dedication including Lincoln's son, Robert Todd Lincoln, and many Union and Confederate veterans - although the audience was segregated. The Memorial took 10 years to complete.

In 1957, he was 51 years old when on September 24th, the "Little Rock Nine" (nine African-American students) entered Little Rock High School. Arkansas Gov. Orval Faubus had previously prevented the students from entering the school at the beginning of the term with the Arkansas National Guard - they blocked the door. President Eisenhower ordered federal troops - the 101st Airborne Division of the United States Army - to guard the students and allow them entry.

In 1960, he was 54 years old when on September 26th, the first televised debate for a Presidential campaign in the United States - Kennedy vs Nixon - was held. Seventy million people watched the debate on TV. The debate pre-empted the very popular Andy Griffith Show.

In 1976, in the year of Ernest Eastwoo's passing, on August 4th, a mysterious illness struck an American Legion convention in Philadelphia. Within a week, 25 people had died and 130 people had been hospitalized. It was the first known instance of what came to be called "Legionnaires Disease."

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