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Lela R Watkins 1920 - 2011

Lela R Watkins of Colorado Springs, El Paso County, CO was born on December 12, 1920, and died at age 90 years old on January 16, 2011.
Lela R Watkins
Colorado Springs, El Paso County, CO 80920
December 12, 1920
January 16, 2011
Female
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    1920

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    December 12, 1920
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  • 01/16
    2011

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    January 16, 2011
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    Lela R Watkins lived 19 years longer than the average family member when died at the age of 90.
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In 1920, in the year that Lela R Watkins was born, in September, a bomb exploded in the J.P. Morgan bank building in New York City, killing 30 people immediately - 8 later died due to their injuries - and injuring another 200. Killing more people than the 1910 bombing of the LA Times (the deadliest terrorist act up until then), no one took responsibility and the perpetrators were never found. Italian anarchists were suspected of the bombing.
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In 1942, she was 22 years old when 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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