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Robert Gowan 1905 - 1986

Robert Gowan of Sulphur, Murray County, Oklahoma was born on December 18, 1905, and died at age 80 years old in November 1986.
Robert Gowan
Sulphur, Murray County, Oklahoma 73086
December 18, 1905
November 1986
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    1905

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    December 18, 1905
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    1986

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    November 1986
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In 1905, in the year that Robert Gowan was born, the first movie theater opened in the United States in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. It was the first theater to show nothing but movies - silent films. Two men, John P. Harris and his brother-in-law Harry Davis, opened the Nickelodeon on Smithfield Street - charging 5 cents for admission. The first day, 450 people watched movies at the new theater - on the second day, more than 1500 people stood in line to get in.
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In 1924, he was 19 years old when 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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