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Henry Despard 1905 - 1983

Henry Despard of East Granby, Hartford County, CT was born on July 1, 1905, and died at age 78 years old in October 1983.
Henry Despard
East Granby, Hartford County, CT 06026
July 1, 1905
October 1983
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    1905

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    July 1, 1905
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  • 10/dd
    1983

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    October 1983
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    Henry Despard lived 1 year longer than the average family member when died at the age of 78.
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In 1905, in the year that Henry Despard was born, the first movie theater opened in the United States in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. It was the first theater to show nothing but movies - silent films. Two men, John P. Harris and his brother-in-law Harry Davis, opened the Nickelodeon on Smithfield Street - charging 5 cents for admission. The first day, 450 people watched movies at the new theater - on the second day, more than 1500 people stood in line to get in.
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In 1942, when he was 37 years old, on February 19th, President Roosevelt signed Executive Order 9066. This authorized the Secretary of War to "prescribe certain areas as military zones." On March 21st, he signed Public Law 503 which was approved after an hour discussion in the Senate and 30 minutes in the House. The Law provided for enforcement of his Executive Order. This cleared the way for approximately 120,000 men, women, and children of Japanese ancestry to be evicted from the West Coast and to be held in concentration camps and other confinement sites across the country. In Hawaii, a few thousand were detained. German and Italian Americans in the U.S. were also confined.
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