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Robert Deford (1924 - 1987)
Robert Deford was born on August 29, 1924. He died in July 1987 at 62 years old. We know that Robert Deford had been residing in Long Beach, Los Angeles County, California.
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Robert Deford passed away in July 1987 at 62 years old. He was born on August 29, 1924. We have no information about Robert's family. We know that Robert Deford had been residing in Long Beach, Los Angeles County, California.
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In 1924, in the year that Robert Deford 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.
In 1940, he was 16 years old when on September 16th, the Selective Training and Service Act of 1940, was enacted - the first peacetime draft in U.S. history. Men between 21 and 36 were required to register with their draft boards. When World War II began, men between 18 and 45 were subject to service and men up to 65 were required to register.
In 1950, Robert was 26 years old when on June 25th, the Korean War began when North Korean Communist forces crossed the 38th parallel. The Soviet Union and China backed North Korea and the U.N., primarily the United States backed South Korea.
In 1978, when he was 54 years old, on November 18th, Jim Jones's Peoples Temple followers committed mass suicide in Jonestown, Guyana - where they had moved, from San Francisco, as a group. Jones was the leader of the cult and ordered his followers to drink cyanide-laced punch, which they did. Whole families (women and children included) died - more than 900 people in all.
In 1987, in the year of Robert Deford's passing, was the first time that a criminal in the United States - a serial rapist - was convicted through the use of DNA evidence.
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