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Gerold W King (1911 - 1996)

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Gerold W King
1911 - 1996
Born
November 10, 1911
Death
June 18, 1996
Last Known Residence
Lynden, Whatcom County, Washington 98264
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Gerold W King of Lynden, Whatcom County, Washington was born on November 10, 1911, and died at age 84 years old on June 18, 1996.
Updated: June 20, 2016
Biography ID: 482697

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Lynden, Whatcom County, Washington 98264
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Gerold King passed away at age 84 years old on June 18, 1996. Gerold W King of Lynden, Whatcom County, Washington was born on November 10, 1911.

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Gerold W King lived 13 years longer than the average King family member when they died at the age of 84.
The average age of a King family member is 71.
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Ralph, Gerold & Barton King
Ralph, Gerold & Barton King, sons of Wilbur & Eva (Swafford) King
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Darling picture where were they born and who was Wilbur Kings parents?
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1911 - 1996 World Events

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In 1911, in the year that Gerold W King was born, Norwegian explorer Roald Amundsen became the first man to reach the South Pole, along with four fellow Norwegian explorers. After hearing that Peary had beaten him to the North Pole, Amundsen decided to tackle the South Pole. On December 14th, he succeeded.

In 1954, when this person was 43 years old, from April 22 through June 17th, the Army v. McCarthy hearings were held. The U.S. Army accused Roy Cohn (chief counsel to Senator McCarthy and later trusted mentor of Donald Trump) of blackmail. McCarthy and Cohn accused the U.S. Army of harboring communists. The Army allegations were found to be true. The U.S. Senate later censured McCarthy.

In 1974, Gerold was 63 years old when on February 5th, Patty Hearst, age 19 - granddaughter of William Randolph Hearst and daughter of publisher of the San Francisco Examiner Randolph Hearst - was kidnapped by the Symbionese Liberation Army, a left wing terrorist group. She was found, alive, 19 months later.

In 1983, by the time this person was 72 years old, on August 30th, the Soviet Union claimed that a South Korean Boeing 747 jetliner (Flight 007), bound for Seoul from New York City, had strayed into Soviet airspace. Saying that they believed it to be a U.S. spy plane, the passenger jet was shot down by a Soviet SU-15 fighter - after it had tracked the airliner for two hours. All 269 passengers (including a U.S. Representative from Georgia) and crew were killed.

In 1996, in the year of Gerold W King's passing, on April 3rd, Theodore Kaczynski (nicknamed the Unabomber) was arrested. His mailed or hand-delivered bombs, sent between 1978 and 1995, killed three people and injured 23 others. Diagnosed as suffering from paranoid schizophrenia, Kaczynski is serving 8 life sentences without the possibility of parole.

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