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Jo Ann Laporte 1933 - 2007

Jo Ann Laporte of Washington, Tazewell County, IL was born on May 26, 1933, and died at age 74 years old on September 6, 2007.
Jo Ann Laporte
Washington, Tazewell County, IL 61571
May 26, 1933
September 6, 2007
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  • 05/26
    1933

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    May 26, 1933
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  • 09/6
    2007

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    September 6, 2007
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In 1933, in the year that Jo Ann Laporte was born, the day after being inaugurated, the new President, Franklin Roosevelt, declared a four-day bank holiday to stop people from withdrawing their money from shaky banks (the bank run). Within 5 days of his administration, the Emergency Banking Act was passed - reorganizing banks and closing insolvent ones. In his first 100 days, he asked Congress to repeal Prohibition (which they did), signed the Tennessee Valley Authority Act, signed legislation that paid commodity farmers to leave their fields fallow, thus ending surpluses and boosting prices, signed a bill that gave workers the right to unionize and bargain collectively for higher wages and better working conditions as well as suspending some antitrust laws and establishing a federally funded Public Works Administration, and won passage of 12 other major laws that helped the economy.
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In 1942, at the age of just 9 years old, Jo Ann was alive 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.
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