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Jon Knowles Whiting 1933 - 2009

Jon Knowles Whiting of Lakewood, Pierce County, WA was born on October 20, 1933, and died at age 75 years old on July 13, 2009. Jon Whiting was buried at Tahoma National Cemetery Section 7 Site 42 18600 Se 240th St, in Kent.
Jon Knowles Whiting
Lakewood, Pierce County, WA 98499
October 20, 1933
July 13, 2009
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  • 10/20
    1933

    Birthday

    October 20, 1933
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  • Military Service

    Branch of service: Us Army Rank attained: LT COL Wars/Conflicts: Vietnam
  • 07/13
    2009

    Death

    July 13, 2009
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    Tahoma National Cemetery Section 7 Site 42 18600 Se 240th St, in Kent, Wa 98042
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In 1933, in the year that Jon Knowles Whiting was born, the day after being inaugurated, the new President, Franklin Roosevelt, declared a four-day bank holiday to stop people from withdrawing their money from shaky banks (the bank run). Within 5 days of his administration, the Emergency Banking Act was passed - reorganizing banks and closing insolvent ones. In his first 100 days, he asked Congress to repeal Prohibition (which they did), signed the Tennessee Valley Authority Act, signed legislation that paid commodity farmers to leave their fields fallow, thus ending surpluses and boosting prices, signed a bill that gave workers the right to unionize and bargain collectively for higher wages and better working conditions as well as suspending some antitrust laws and establishing a federally funded Public Works Administration, and won passage of 12 other major laws that helped the economy.
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In 1942, when he was just 9 years old, on November 28th at 10:15p, a nightclub in Boston, the Cocoanut Grove, caught fire. The origins of the fire are unknown but it killed 492 people - the deadliest nightclub fire in U.S. history. Hundreds more were injured. The disaster was so shocking that it replaced World War II in the headlines and lead to reforms in safety standards and codes.
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