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Leon Bankston 1920 - 1997

Leon Bankston of Houston, Harris County, TX was born on November 7, 1920, and died at age 76 years old on May 28, 1997. Leon Bankston was buried at Houston National Cemetery Section G3 Site 335 10410 Veterans Memorial Drive, in Houston.

Leon Bankston

Houston, Harris County, TX 77090

November 7, 1920

May 28, 1997

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1920

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November 7, 1920

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Branch of service: Us Army Rank attained: PFC Wars/Conflicts: World War Ii
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May 28, 1997

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Leon Bankston lived 6 years longer than the average family member when died at the age of 76.

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In 1920, in the year that Leon Bankston was born, on November 2, radio station KDKA began broadcasting in Pittsburgh, PA. This was the first commercial radio broadcast in the United States. Westinghouse, a leading manufacturer of radios and the backer of the station, chose the date because of the Presidential election. People liked it because they could hear about the results of the election between Harding and Cox before the morning papers arrived. Four years later, there were 600 commercial stations broadcasting in the U.S.

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In 1933, at the age of merely 13 years old, Leon was alive when on December 5th, the Twenty-first Amendment to the United States Constitution was ratified. The 21st Amendment said "The eighteenth article of amendment to the Constitution of the United States is hereby repealed." Alcohol was legal again! It was the only amendment to the Constitution approved for the explicit purpose of repealing a previously existing amendment. South Carolina was the only state to reject the Amendment.

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