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John J Rava 1934 - 2008

John J Rava of Taylor, Lackawanna County, PA was born on February 16, 1934, and died at age 74 years old on May 17, 2008.
John J Rava
Taylor, Lackawanna County, PA 18517
February 16, 1934
May 17, 2008
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  • 02/16
    1934

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    February 16, 1934
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  • 05/17
    2008

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    May 17, 2008
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In 1934, in the year that John J Rava was born, on July 22nd, gangster John Dillinger was killed in Chicago. His gang had robbed banks and police stations, among other charges, and he was being hunted by J. Edgar Hoover, head of the FBI - although many in the public saw him as a "Robin Hood". A madam from a brothel in which he was hiding became an informer for the FBI and, after a shootout with FBI agents, Dillinger was shot and died.
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In 1942, he was merely 8 years old when 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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