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John Gorkie 1915 - 1999

John Gorkie of Escondido, San Diego County, CA was born on April 12, 1915, and died at age 84 years old on September 11, 1999. John Gorkie was buried at Riverside National Cemetery Section 46A Site 3708 22495 Van Buren Boulevard, in Riverside.
John Gorkie
Escondido, San Diego County, CA 92025
April 12, 1915
September 11, 1999
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  • 04/12
    1915

    Birthday

    April 12, 1915
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    Unknown
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  • Military Service

    Branch of service: Us Army Rank attained: CPL Wars/Conflicts: World War Ii
  • 09/11
    1999

    Death

    September 11, 1999
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    Unknown
    Cause of death
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    Death location
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    Riverside National Cemetery Section 46A Site 3708 22495 Van Buren Boulevard, in Riverside, Ca 92518
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In 1915, in the year that John Gorkie was born, Audrey Munson, playing a model for a sculptor in the film "Inspiration", became the first actress to shed her clothes on screen. Fearing that banning the film would mean that censors would also have to "ban Renaissance art" the film was released, with Munson in the nude scenes and a stand-in doing the acting. (Munson had previously been "America's First Supermodel" and posed nude as the model for many famous artworks.) The film was a hit with audiences.
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In 1924, he was just 9 years old when J. Edgar Hoover, at the age of 29, was appointed the sixth director of the Bureau of Investigation by Calvin Coolidge (which later became the Federal Bureau of Investigation). The Bureau had approximately 650 employees, including 441 Special Agents. A former employee of the Justice Department, Hoover accepted his new position on the proviso that the bureau was to be completely divorced from politics and that the director report only to the attorney general.
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