James Gerald Erickson (1934 - 1998)

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unknown couple, Iowa

Brad & Lloyd Erickson

Britta Mathilda Goransdotter's son - please help!

Edwin M. Watson, Dorothy White and Court

Jack Erickson and San Mateo High School students

Elaine Gillett, Daniel Pinna, Norma Erickson

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Swedes in Chicago, Illinois about 1930

Norma Kroetch Erickson

Norma Kroetch Erickson, Mission Beach, CA

Kroetch and Barrett Family, 1956

8th Graduation Billings School 1933

Eric Erickson

Iva Erickson

Harley Wright Family, Ohio 1940

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In 1934, in the year that James Gerald Erickson was born, on November 11th 1933, an extremely strong dust storm hit South Dakota, stripping topsoil. Other strong dust storms had occurred during 1933. Severe droughts continued to hit the Great Plains and the dust storms devastated agricultural production as well as people's' lives for several years. The Roosevelt administration and scientists eventually determined that farming practices had caused the conditions that led to the dust storms and the changes they implemented in farming stopped the Dust Bowl.

In 1949, he was just 15 years old when comedian Milton Berle hosted the first telethon show. It raised $1,100,000 for cancer research and lasted 16 hours. The next day, newspapers, in writing about the event, first used the word "telethon."

In 1953, James was 19 years old when on July 27th, the Korean Armistice Agreement was signed. The Armistice was to last until "a final peaceful settlement is achieved". No peaceful settlement has ever been agreed upon.

In 1988, by the time he was 54 years old, on December 21st, Pan Am Flight 103 exploded over Lockerbie Scotland. The explosion killed all 259 people on board and another 11 on the ground. The flight had left Heathrow Airport in London less than an hour before, on its way to New York. After an exhaustive (and long) investigation it came to be believed that two individuals from Libya had planted the bomb.

In 1998, in the year of James Gerald Erickson's passing, on December 19th, the movie Titanic - based on the 1912 sinking of the ship and starring Leonardo DiCaprio and Kate Winslet - was released. Winning 11 Oscars, it was the first film to gross over a billion dollars and eventually grossed over $2 billion.