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Gene R Downey 1942 - 2000

Gene R Downey of Urbandale, Polk County, IA was born on January 11, 1942, and died at age 58 years old on August 31, 2000.

Gene R Downey
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Urbandale, Polk County, IA 50322
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In 1942, in the year that Gene R Downey was born, 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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In 1960, when he was 18 years old, on May 1st, an American CIA U-2 spy plane, piloted by Francis Gary Powers, was shot down by a surface-to-air missile over the Soviet Union. Powers ejected and survived but was captured. The U.S. claimed that the U-2 was a "weather plane" but Powers was convicted in the Soviet Union of espionage. He was released in 1962 after 1 year, 9 months and 10 days in prison.
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Downey, Albert (Nov 12, 1924 - Sep 1974) Downey, Conrad (Jul 22, 1936 - Mar 15, 1990) Downey, David (Aug 6, 1941 - Nov 15, 1997) Downey, Edmund (Nov 7, 1904 - Jan 22, 1994) Downey, Raymond (Dec 31, 1955 - Jun 9, 1998) Downey, Stella (Oct 23, 1916 - May 31, 2001) Downey, Francis (Apr 25, 1913 - Jan 1982) Downey, Edward (May 4, 1926 - Feb 13, 2010) Downey, Albert (Aug 3, 1896 - Aug 1977) Downey, May (Dec 3, 1883 - Jun 1969)
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