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Gretchen Lansford (1908 - 1978)

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Gretchen Lansford
1908 - 1978
Born
August 26, 1908
Death
April 1978
Last Known Residence
New Orleans, Orleans County, Louisiana 70116
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Gretchen Lansford of New Orleans, Orleans County, Louisiana was born on August 26, 1908, and died at age 69 years old in April 1978.
Updated: October 5, 2011
Biography ID: 14448077

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Gretchen Lansford passed away at age 69 years old in April 1978. Gretchen Lansford of New Orleans, Orleans County, Louisiana was born on August 26, 1908.

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Gretchen Lansford lived 5 years shorter than the average Lansford family member when she died at the age of 69.
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In 1908, in the year that Gretchen Lansford was born, the Federal Bureau of Investigation was established as the domestic intelligence and security service of the United States; it simultaneously served as the nation's prime federal law enforcement agency. Stanley Finch was the first Chief (now called Director).

In 1911, when she was only 3 years old, the Triangle Shirtwaist fire occurred, one of the deadliest industrial disasters in U.S. history. 146 workers (123 women and 23 men, many of them recent Jewish and Italian immigrants) died from the fire or by jumping to escape the fire and smoke. The garment factory was on the 8th, 9th, and 10th floors of a building in Greenwich Village in Manhattan. Doors to stairwells and exits had been locked in order to prevent workers from taking unauthorized breaks and to prevent theft, so they couldn't escape by normal means when the fire broke out. Due to the disaster, legislation was passed to protect sweatshop workers.

In 1953, Gretchen was 45 years old when on January 20th, Dwight D. Eisenhower became the 34th President of the United States. Formerly the 1st Supreme Allied Commander Europe in World War II, Eisenhower had never previously held a political office.

In 1969, at the age of 61 years old, Gretchen was alive when on July 20th, the first men walked on the moon. Apollo 11 astronauts Neil A. Armstrong and Edwin E. Aldrin Jr. both walked on the moon but it was Armstrong who first stepped on the moon. They fulfilled the promise of President Kennedy's commitment in 1961 to put a man on the moon before the end of the decade.

In 1978, in the year of Gretchen Lansford's passing, on November 18th, Jim Jones's Peoples Temple followers committed mass suicide in Jonestown, Guyana - where they had moved, from San Francisco, as a group. Jones was the leader of the cult and ordered his followers to drink cyanide-laced punch, which they did. Whole families (women and children included) died - more than 900 people in all.

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