Otis Lewis (1944 - 1991)

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My father Otis Lewis

John Robert Lewis

John Robert Lewis

Fred Willard

Florence LewisI miss you mom

Carol A Owens

Bob and Carolyn HarrisTimothy Hoptman

Carolyn Ann Lewis

Florencia R. (Quenga) Lewis

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Ted Lewis

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Warren Lewis & Agnes Patterson

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In 1944, in the year that Otis Lewis was born, on November 7th, Franklin Delano Roosevelt was reelected to a fourth term as President of the United States. Running against Thomas Dewey, Governor of New York, Roosevelt won 53.4 of the popular vote, Dewey got 45.9%.

In 1958, he was merely 14 years old when on January 31st, Explorer I, the United States' answer to Sputnik I (and 2,) was launched. America had entered the Space Race. The first spacecraft to detect the Van Allen radiation belt, it remained in orbit until 1970.

In 1972, at the age of 28 years old, Otis was alive when on November 7th, Richard Nixon won re-election, amidst the dawning knowledge of the Watergate scandal, by 60.7% to anti-war candidate George McGovern's 37.5%.

In 1987, he was 43 years old when was the first time that a criminal in the United States - a serial rapist - was convicted through the use of DNA evidence.

In 1991, in the year of Otis Lewis's passing, on January 16th, Allied forces began the first phase of Operation Desert Storm. Saddam Hussein's forces had previously invaded the sovereign state of Kuwait and the focus of the operation was to remove his Iraqi troops from Kuwait. On February 24th, the ground war began. Within 100 hours, American ground troops declared Kuwait liberated.