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Richard L Pursley 1924 - 1997

Richard L Pursley was born on February 19, 1924, and died at age 73 years old on December 24, 1997. Family, friend, or fan, this family history biography is for you to remember Richard L Pursley.

Richard L Pursley

February 19, 1924

December 24, 1997

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1924

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February 19, 1924

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12/24

1997

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December 24, 1997

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In 1924, in the year that Richard L Pursley was born, J. Edgar Hoover, at the age of 29, was appointed the sixth director of the Bureau of Investigation by Calvin Coolidge (which later became the Federal Bureau of Investigation). The Bureau had approximately 650 employees, including 441 Special Agents. A former employee of the Justice Department, Hoover accepted his new position on the proviso that the bureau was to be completely divorced from politics and that the director report only to the attorney general.

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In 1942, he was 18 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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