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John R Swithers 1915 - 2003

John R Swithers of Paducah, McCracken County, KY was born on July 17, 1915, and died at age 87 years old on April 29, 2003.
John R Swithers
Paducah, McCracken County, KY 42001
July 17, 1915
April 29, 2003
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  • 07/17
    1915

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    July 17, 1915
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  • 04/29
    2003

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    April 29, 2003
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    John R Swithers lived 15 years longer than the average family member when died at the age of 87.
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In 1915, in the year that John R Swithers 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 1960, John was 45 years old when on May 1st, an American CIA U-2 spy plane, piloted by Francis Gary Powers, was shot down by a surface-to-air missile over the Soviet Union. Powers ejected and survived but was captured. The U.S. claimed that the U-2 was a "weather plane" but Powers was convicted in the Soviet Union of espionage. He was released in 1962 after 1 year, 9 months and 10 days in prison.
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