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Gretchen Lansford 1908 - 1978

Gretchen Lansford (1908 - 1978)
Full legal name
Gretchen Lansford
Last Known Residence
New Orleans, Orleans County, Louisiana 70116
Born
August 26, 1908
Death
April 1978
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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.

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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.
The average age of a Lansford family member is 74.
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1908 - 1978 World Events

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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 1924, Gretchen was 16 years old when in May, wealthy college students Nathan Leopold and Richard Loeb kidnapped and killed 14 year old Robert Franks "in the interest of science". Leopold and Loeb thought that they were intellectually superior and that they could commit the perfect crime and not be caught. They were brought in for questioning within 8 days and quickly confessed. Clarence Darrow was hired as their defense lawyer, getting them life imprisonment instead of a death sentence. Loeb was eventually killed in prison - Leopold was released after 33 years, dying of a heart attack at age 66.

In 1943, she was 35 years old when on June 20th through June 22nd, the Detroit Race Riot erupted at Belle Isle Park. The rioting spread throughout the city (made worse by false rumors of attacks on blacks and whites) and resulted in the deployment of 6,000 Federal troops. 34 people were killed, (25 of them black) - mostly by white police or National Guardsmen, 433 were wounded (75 percent of them black) and an estimated $2 million of property was destroyed. The same summer, there were riots in Beaumont, Texas and Harlem, New York.

In 1969, Gretchen was 61 years old when one hundred countries, along with the United States and the Soviet Union signed the nuclear nonproliferation treaty (NPT). It called for stopping the spread of nuclear weapons, the peaceful use of nuclear energy, and the goal of nuclear disarmament.

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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