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John Shea 1897 - 1992

John Shea of Brooklyn, Kings County, NY was born on December 4, 1897, and died at age 94 years old on November 21, 1992.
John Shea
Brooklyn, Kings County, NY 11218
December 4, 1897
November 21, 1992
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  • 12/4
    1897

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    December 4, 1897
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  • 11/21
    1992

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    November 21, 1992
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    John Shea lived 20 years longer than the average family member when died at the age of 94.
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In 1897, in the year that John Shea was born, on September 21st, editor and publisher Francis P. Church responded to a letter to the editor from Virginia O'Hanlon, 8 years old. Virginia's father had told her that "If you see it in The Sun, it's so." So she wrote to the Sun, asking if there was a Santa Claus. Church responded with the now famous editorial "Yes, Virginia, there is a Santa Claus".
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In 1905, he was only 8 years old when the first movie theater opened in the United States in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. It was the first theater to show nothing but movies - silent films. Two men, John P. Harris and his brother-in-law Harry Davis, opened the Nickelodeon on Smithfield Street - charging 5 cents for admission. The first day, 450 people watched movies at the new theater - on the second day, more than 1500 people stood in line to get in.
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