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Richard Porter Walton 1924 - 2008

Richard Porter Walton of Santa Monica, Los Angeles County, California was born on September 5, 1924, and died at age 83 years old on April 15, 2008.
Richard Porter Walton
Santa Monica, Los Angeles County, California 90403
September 5, 1924
April 15, 2008
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    1924

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    September 5, 1924
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  • 04/15
    2008

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    April 15, 2008
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    Richard Porter Walton lived 11 years longer than the average family member when died at the age of 83.
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In 1924, in the year that Richard Porter Walton was born, in May, wealthy college students Nathan Leopold and Richard Loeb kidnapped and killed 14 year old Robert Franks "in the interest of science". Leopold and Loeb thought that they were intellectually superior and that they could commit the perfect crime and not be caught. They were brought in for questioning within 8 days and quickly confessed. Clarence Darrow was hired as their defense lawyer, getting them life imprisonment instead of a death sentence. Loeb was eventually killed in prison - Leopold was released after 33 years, dying of a heart attack at age 66.
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In 1934, at the age of merely 10 years old, Richard was alive when on November 11th 1933, an extremely strong dust storm hit South Dakota, stripping topsoil. Other strong dust storms had occurred during 1933. Severe droughts continued to hit the Great Plains and the dust storms devastated agricultural production as well as people's' lives for several years. The Roosevelt administration and scientists eventually determined that farming practices had caused the conditions that led to the dust storms and the changes they implemented in farming stopped the Dust Bowl.
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