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Joseph Charles Roark 1924 - 2010

Joseph Charles Roark of Spearfish, Lawrence County, SD was born on August 9, 1924, and died at age 85 years old on June 10, 2010. Joseph Roark was buried at Black Hills National Cemetery Section COL-A Row B Site 24 20901 Pleasant Valley Drive, in Sturgis.

Joseph Charles Roark

Spearfish, Lawrence County, SD 57783

August 9, 1924

June 10, 2010

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1924

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August 9, 1924

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Branch of service: Us Navy Rank attained: AOM1 Wars/Conflicts: World War Ii
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June 10, 2010

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Joseph Charles Roark lived 14 years longer than the average family member when died at the age of 85.

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In 1924, in the year that Joseph Charles Roark was born, J. Edgar Hoover, at the age of 29, was appointed the sixth director of the Bureau of Investigation by Calvin Coolidge (which later became the Federal Bureau of Investigation). The Bureau had approximately 650 employees, including 441 Special Agents. A former employee of the Justice Department, Hoover accepted his new position on the proviso that the bureau was to be completely divorced from politics and that the director report only to the attorney general.

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In 1943, Joseph was 19 years old when on June 20th through June 22nd, the Detroit Race Riot erupted at Belle Isle Park. The rioting spread throughout the city (made worse by false rumors of attacks on blacks and whites) and resulted in the deployment of 6,000 Federal troops. 34 people were killed, (25 of them black) - mostly by white police or National Guardsmen, 433 were wounded (75 percent of them black) and an estimated $2 million of property was destroyed. The same summer, there were riots in Beaumont, Texas and Harlem, New York.

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