Johnie D Brandon (1914 - 1991)

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Cpl. Carl Dana Brandon

Added: Mar 21, 2019

Everett & Brandon families

Added: Jul 15, 2016

Cordilia Cocorhan Brandon

Added: Oct 22, 2014

Hervel Brandon

Added: Oct 18, 2014

Alexus M Brandon

Added: Dec 09, 2013

McCollough Sisters, Tennessee 1947

Added: Nov 06, 2012

Ben McCullough Family, Tennessee 1933

Added: Nov 05, 2012

Charles Brandon, 1st Duke Of Suffolk

Added: Jan 31, 2012

Sidney Caswell Brandon Family

Added: Dec 21, 2002

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Added: Jun 24, 2001

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In 1914, in the year that Johnie D Brandon was born, President Woodrow Wilson signed a proclamation designating Mother's Day, the second Sunday in May, as a national holiday to honor mothers. Anna Jarvis had championed a Mother's Day for years but Congress had joked a few years earlier that then they would have to proclaim a "Mother-in-law's Day" as well. The President who championed a woman's right to vote also created a day in their honor.

In 1940, by the time this person was 26 years old, on November 5th, President Franklin Roosevelt was elected to a third term, defeating Wendell Willkie of Indiana (a corporate lawyer). Roosevelt running for a third term was controversial. But the U.S. was emerging from the Great Recession and he promised that he would not involve the country in any foreign war (which of course changed when Japan bombed Pearl Harbor). Roosevelt defeated Willkie in the popular vote by 54.7 to 44.8% and in the Electoral College 449 to 82.

In 1958, Johnie was 44 years old when on January 31st, Explorer I, the United States' answer to Sputnik I (and 2,) was launched. America had entered the Space Race. The first spacecraft to detect the Van Allen radiation belt, it remained in orbit until 1970.

In 1974, Johnie was 60 years old when on February 5th, Patty Hearst, age 19 - granddaughter of William Randolph Hearst and daughter of publisher of the San Francisco Examiner Randolph Hearst - was kidnapped by the Symbionese Liberation Army, a left wing terrorist group. She was found, alive, 19 months later.

In 1991, in the year of Johnie D Brandon's passing, on November 7th, legendary basketball player Magic Johnson announced that he had HIV. In 1991, the public was confused about the difference between HIV and AIDS (HIV is a virus that can lead to AIDS) and there was little treatment for either. Most thought that Johnson would die within a year or so. Also, the transmission of AIDS wasn't understood so he had to retire from basketball. Magic Johnson is still alive and well.