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Helen Ruth Ledbetter 1920 - 2009

Helen Ruth Ledbetter of Garland, Dallas County, Texas was born on May 31, 1920, and died at age 88 years old on February 21, 2009.
Helen Ruth Ledbetter
Garland, Dallas County, Texas 75042
May 31, 1920
February 21, 2009
Female
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    1920

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  • 02/21
    2009

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    February 21, 2009
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    Helen Ruth Ledbetter lived 16 years longer than the average family member when died at the age of 88.
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In 1920, in the year that Helen Ruth Ledbetter was born, on November 2, radio station KDKA began broadcasting in Pittsburgh, PA. This was the first commercial radio broadcast in the United States. Westinghouse, a leading manufacturer of radios and the backer of the station, chose the date because of the Presidential election. People liked it because they could hear about the results of the election between Harding and Cox before the morning papers arrived. Four years later, there were 600 commercial stations broadcasting in the U.S.
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In 1943, by the time she was 23 years old, 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.
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