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Raymond Lewis Gafford 1920 - 2002

Raymond Lewis Gafford of Portland, Multnomah County, OR was born on September 29, 1920, and died at age 82 years old on December 26, 2002. Raymond Gafford was buried at Willamette National Cemetery Section K Site 5633 11800 Se Mt. Scott Boulevard, in Portland.
Raymond Lewis Gafford
Portland, Multnomah County, OR 97219
September 29, 1920
December 26, 2002
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  • 09/29
    1920

    Birthday

    September 29, 1920
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    Unknown
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  • Military Service

    Branch of service: Us Army Air Forces Rank attained: SSGT Wars/Conflicts: World War Ii
  • 12/26
    2002

    Death

    December 26, 2002
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    Unknown
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    Willamette National Cemetery Section K Site 5633 11800 Se Mt. Scott Boulevard, in Portland, Or 97086
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In 1920, in the year that Raymond Lewis Gafford 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 1943, at the age of 23 years old, Raymond was alive when on June 20th through June 22nd, the Detroit Race Riot erupted at Belle Isle Park. The rioting spread throughout the city (made worse by false rumors of attacks on blacks and whites) and resulted in the deployment of 6,000 Federal troops. 34 people were killed, (25 of them black) - mostly by white police or National Guardsmen, 433 were wounded (75 percent of them black) and an estimated $2 million of property was destroyed. The same summer, there were riots in Beaumont, Texas and Harlem, New York.
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