Margaret Jean Mcdonald (1914 - 1964)

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Emmett George Mcdonald

Mary Margaret Peach Mcdonald

Margaret Jean Mcdonald

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Emmett George Mcdonald

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Mary Margaret Peach Mcdonald

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Los Angeles at Home - 1973 Queen Mary "Just for fun" party

Charles Calder Mcdonald

Marguriet Lenora McDonald

Charles Calder McDonald

Charlotte Thomasine McDonald

Charles Calder McDonald 2nd

Elizbth Leslie Mcdonald

Catherine Mcdonald Teasdale

Catherine Mcdonald Teasdale

Catherine Mcdonald Teasdale

Margaret McDonald Phillips

Margaret McDonald Phillips

Margaret McDonald Phillips

Margaret McDonald Phillips

Margaret McDonald Phillips

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In 1914, in the year that Margaret Jean Mcdonald was born, in August, the Panama Canal opened to traffic. Begun by the French in the 1880's and abandoned, the United States undertook further construction in 1904. After 10 years, and the elimination of malaria carrying mosquitoes (which caused immense delays for the French and the Americans), the 48 mile long artificial waterway - a series of locks - created a shortcut for ships traveling between the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans.

In 1928, she was merely 14 years old when aviatrix Amelia Earhart, age 31, became the first woman to fly solo across North America and back in August. In June, she had been part of a 3 man crew that flew the Atlantic Ocean but since she had no instrument training, she couldn't fly the plane - she kept the flight log. The North American flight became one of her many "firsts" as a female pilot.

In 1933, by the time she was 19 years old, the day after being inaugurated, the new President, Franklin Roosevelt, declared a four-day bank holiday to stop people from withdrawing their money from shaky banks (the bank run). Within 5 days of his administration, the Emergency Banking Act was passed - reorganizing banks and closing insolvent ones. In his first 100 days, he asked Congress to repeal Prohibition (which they did), signed the Tennessee Valley Authority Act, signed legislation that paid commodity farmers to leave their fields fallow, thus ending surpluses and boosting prices, signed a bill that gave workers the right to unionize and bargain collectively for higher wages and better working conditions as well as suspending some antitrust laws and establishing a federally funded Public Works Administration, and won passage of 12 other major laws that helped the economy.

In 1955, Margaret was 41 years old when on September 10th the TV show "Gunsmoke" debuted on CBS. It went on to be television's longest-running western. Matt Dillon, Chester, Doc Adams, and Miss Kitty became household names.

In 1964, in the year of Margaret Jean Mcdonald's passing, in June, three young civil rights workers - Andrew Goodman and Mickey Schwerner from New York City, and James Chaney from Meridian, Mississippi - were kidnapped and murdered in Mississippi. Working with "Freedom Summer", they were registering African-Americans to vote in the Southern states. Their bodies were found two months later. Although it was discovered that the White Knights of the Ku Klux Klan, the Neshoba County Sheriff's Office and the Philadelphia, Mississippi Police Department were involved, only 7 men were convicted and served less than six years.