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John R Smith 1922 - 2002

John R Smith of Meridian, Lauderdale County, MS was born on August 19, 1922, and died at age 79 years old on February 8, 2002.
John R Smith
Meridian, Lauderdale County, MS 39301
August 19, 1922
February 8, 2002
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  • 08/19
    1922

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    August 19, 1922
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  • 02/8
    2002

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    February 8, 2002
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    John R Smith lived 7 years longer than the average family member when died at the age of 79.
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In 1922, in the year that John R Smith was born, on June 22, coal miners in Herrin Illinois, were on strike (coal miners had been on strike nationally since April 1). The striking miners were outraged at the strikebreakers (scabs) that the company had brought in and laid siege to the mine. Three union workers were killed when gunfire was exchanged. The next day, union miners killed 23 strikebreakers and mine guards. No one, on either side, ever faced jail time.
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In 1942, at the age of 20 years old, John 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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