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Florence A Drastild 1920 - 2009

Florence A Drastild of Chicago, Cook County, IL was born on April 25, 1920, and died at age 89 years old on May 5, 2009.
Florence A Drastild
Chicago, Cook County, IL 60602
April 25, 1920
May 5, 2009
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  • 04/25
    1920

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    April 25, 1920
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  • 05/5
    2009

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    May 5, 2009
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    Florence A Drastild lived 9 years longer than the average family member when died at the age of 89.
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In 1920, in the year that Florence A Drastild 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, Florence was 22 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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