Harvey E Criss (1913 - 2000)

Harvey's immediate relatives including parents, siblings, partnerships and children in the Criss family tree.

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Harvey's Parents

Pearl Venus Criss

Leona Lacey Mahan Criss

Harvey E Criss

Parents:

Pearl Venus Criss

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Leona Lacey Mahan Criss

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Harvey E Criss & Anna Mae Bartlett

Harvey E Criss

Anna Mae Bartlett

Melva Lou Criss Martha Ann Criss

Curtis Harvey Criss

Spouse:

Anna Mae Bartlett

Unknown - Unknown

Children:

Melva Lou Criss

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Curtis Harvey Criss

Unknown - Unknown

Martha Ann Criss

Unknown - Unknown

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In 1913, in the year that Harvey E Criss was born, Woodrow Wilson became the 28th President of the United States in March. Previously the Governor of New Jersey and President of Princeton University, he was the first Southerner to serve as President since Zachary Taylor, over 60 years previous. A Democrat, he led the U.S. during World War I and championed the League of Nations.

In 1942, he was 29 years old when on June 17th, Roosevelt approved the Manhattan Project, which lead to the development of the first atomic bomb. With the support of Canada and the United Kingdom, the Project came to employ more than 130,000 people and cost nearly $2 billion. Julius Robert Oppenheimer, a nuclear physicist born in New York, led the Los Alamos Laboratory that developed the actual bomb. The first artificial nuclear explosion took place near Alamogordo New Mexico on July 16, 1945.

In 1958, he was 45 years old when on March 24th, Elvis Presley was inducted into the United States Army. Although he could have served in Special Services as an entertainer, he chose to become a regular soldier. Almost everyone thought it would be the end of his career - it wasn't.

In 1962, at the age of 49 years old, Harvey was alive when lasting from October 16th - 28th, the Cuban Missile Crisis was the closest that the United States and the Soviet Union came to nuclear war. The Soviet Union had been installing a nuclear missile base in Cuba. The United States established a blockade to stop the base from being completed. Through secret negotiations, war was averted: the Soviet Union agreed to dismantle their weapons in Cuba and the United States agreed to never invade Cuba and to dismantle weapons in Turkey and Italy.

In 1995, Harvey was 82 years old when on May 19th, the deadliest terrorist attack on American soil - before 9/11 - took place in Oklahoma City. A truck bomb went off outside the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building in downtown - killing 68 people, injuring more than 680 others, and destroying one-third of the building. The most disturbing images were of children - a daycare center was hit by the bomb. The deadliest incident of domestic terrorism ever, Timothy McVeigh, Terry Nichols, and Michael Fortier were convicted of the bombing.