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Lawrence Berk 1921 - 2010

Lawrence Berk of San Jose, Santa Clara County, California was born on March 23, 1921, and died at age 89 years old on May 20, 2010.
Lawrence Berk
San Jose, Santa Clara County, California 95135
March 23, 1921
May 20, 2010
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  • 03/23
    1921

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    March 23, 1921
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  • 05/20
    2010

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    May 20, 2010
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    Lawrence Berk lived 13 years longer than the average family member when died at the age of 89.
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In 1921, in the year that Lawrence Berk was born, the silent film The Sheik, directed by George Melford and starring Rudolph Valentino and Agnes Ayres (also featuring Adolphe Menjou) debuted on October 21st. Critics weren't enthusiastic but the public loved it - in the first few weeks 125,000 people had seen the movie - and it eventually exceeded $1 million in ticket sales. And Rudolph Valentino, an Italian American, became the heartthrob of a female generation.
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In 1942, when he was 21 years old, 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.
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