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Laurence F Gessner 1942 - 2008

Laurence F Gessner (1942 - 2008)
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Laurence F Gessner
Last Known Residence
Rock Springs, Sweetwater County, Wyoming 82901
Born
August 14, 1942
Death
March 6, 2008
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Laurence F Gessner of Rock Springs, Sweetwater County, Wyoming was born on August 14, 1942, and died at age 65 years old on March 6, 2008.

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Laurence Gessner passed away at age 65 years old on March 6, 2008. Laurence F Gessner of Rock Springs, Sweetwater County, Wyoming was born on August 14, 1942.

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Laurence F Gessner lived 9 years shorter than the average Gessner family member when he died at the age of 65.
The average age of a Gessner family member is 74.
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1942 - 2008 World Events

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In 1942, in the year that Laurence F Gessner was born, on February 19th, President Roosevelt signed Executive Order 9066. This authorized the Secretary of War to "prescribe certain areas as military zones." On March 21st, he signed Public Law 503 which was approved after an hour discussion in the Senate and 30 minutes in the House. The Law provided for enforcement of his Executive Order. This cleared the way for approximately 120,000 men, women, and children of Japanese ancestry to be evicted from the West Coast and to be held in concentration camps and other confinement sites across the country. In Hawaii, a few thousand were detained. German and Italian Americans in the U.S. were also confined.

In 1955, Laurence was merely 13 years old when on September 30th, movie star James Dean, 24, died in a car accident. He was headed in his new Porsche 550 to a race in Salinas California when, traveling at 85 mph, he collided with a 1950 Ford Tudor, also speeding, driven by a 23 year old college student. Dean died, his passenger and the other driver survived.

In 1964, when he was 22 years old, on June 11th, activist Nelson Mandela was sentenced to life imprisonment in South Africa for conspiring to overthrow the state (because of his numerous anti-apartheid activities). He served 27 years in prison.

In 1981, Laurence was 39 years old when on January 20th, Ronald Reagan became the 40th President of the United States. He ran against the incumbent, Jimmy Carter, and won 50.7% of the popular vote to Carter's 41.0%.

In 1997, he was 55 years old when on June 26th, the first Harry Potter book by J. K. Rowling was released. "Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone" was an immediate success and spawned not only sequels but also movies, video games, plays, and amusement park attractions. J.K. Rowling, at the time of the first book a poor single mother, has become a multi-billionaire.

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