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Esther Caplan 1897 - 1988

Esther Caplan of Los Angeles, Los Angeles County, CA was born on May 11, 1897, and died at age 91 years old on December 15, 1988.
Esther Caplan
Los Angeles, Los Angeles County, CA 90035
May 11, 1897
December 15, 1988
Female
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  • 05/11
    1897

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    May 11, 1897
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  • 12/15
    1988

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    December 15, 1988
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    Esther Caplan lived 14 years longer than the average family member when died at the age of 91.
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In 1897, in the year that Esther Caplan was born, on September 21st, editor and publisher Francis P. Church responded to a letter to the editor from Virginia O'Hanlon, 8 years old. Virginia's father had told her that "If you see it in The Sun, it's so." So she wrote to the Sun, asking if there was a Santa Claus. Church responded with the now famous editorial "Yes, Virginia, there is a Santa Claus".
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In 1942, at the age of 45 years old, Esther was alive 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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