Jess William Southwick (born 1958)

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Jess's Family

Dale C Southwick

Aethea (Johnson) Southwick

Kareleen Nmn (Southwick) Christensen Jess William Southwick

Teela Nmn (Southwick) Sorensen LuDale Nmn (Southwick) Rose

Parents:

Dale C Southwick

Apr 20, 1925 - Jul 15, 2013

Aethea (Johnson) Southwick

May 10, 1929 - Unknown

Siblings:

Teela Nmn (Southwick) Sorensen

May 12, 1954 - Unknown

Kareleen Nmn (Southwick) Christensen

Dec 6, 1949 - Oct 6, 2012

LuDale Nmn (Southwick) Rose

Mar 24, 1948 - Unknown

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In 1958, in the year that Jess William Southwick was born, on January 31st, Explorer I, the United States' answer to Sputnik I (and 2,) was launched. America had entered the Space Race. The first spacecraft to detect the Van Allen radiation belt, it remained in orbit until 1970.

In 1964, in June, three young civil rights workers - Andrew Goodman and Mickey Schwerner from New York City, and James Chaney from Meridian, Mississippi - were kidnapped and murdered in Mississippi. Working with "Freedom Summer", they were registering African-Americans to vote in the Southern states. Their bodies were found two months later. Although it was discovered that the White Knights of the Ku Klux Klan, the Neshoba County Sheriff's Office and the Philadelphia, Mississippi Police Department were involved, only 7 men were convicted and served less than six years.

In 1971, in March, Intel shipped the first microprocessor to Busicom, a Japanese manufacturer of calculators. The microprocessor has since allowed computers to become smaller and faster, leading to smaller and more versatile handheld devices, home computers, and supercomputers.

In 1988, 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 1990, on April 24th, the Hubble telescope was launched into space after long delays due to the Challenger explosion. An optical flaw was found within weeks of launch but was fixed within three years. The discoveries made possible by the Hubble have contributed to scientists' understanding of the universe.