Robert Richard Volkman Sr. (1924 - 2012)

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Robert Richard Volkman Sr. & Jane (Coucill) Volkman

around 1947 - April 7, 2012
Cause of Separation: Death
Wilmington, New Castle County, DE, United States

Robert Richard Volkman Sr.

Jane (Coucill) Volkman

Robert Richard Volkman Jr. Gregery Thomas Volkman

Sandra (Volkman) Miller

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Jane (Coucill) Volkman

Mar 22, 1924 - Dec 4, 2014

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Robert Richard Volkman Jr.

Sep 10, 1950 - Unknown

Sandra (Volkman) Miller

May 14, 1953 - Unknown

Gregery Thomas Volkman

Mar 23, 1960 - Unknown

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In 1924, in the year that Robert Richard Volkman Sr. 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.

In 1940, Robert was 16 years old when in July, Billboard published its first Music Popularity Chart. Top recordings of the year were Tommy Dorsey's "I'll Never Smile Again" (vocal Frank Sinatra) - 12 weeks at the top, Bing Crosby's "Only Forever" - 9 weeks at the top, and Artie Shaw's "Frenesi" - 12 weeks at the top.

In 1961, he was 37 years old when on April 17th, about 1,000 CIA trained Cuban exiles invaded Cuba with the intention of igniting a rebellion and overthrowing Castro. They were defeated within three days. Although the operation began under Eisenhower, Kennedy approved it and the operation, named the Bay of Pigs for the beach where they landed, was a humiliation for the United States.

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 1993, by the time he was 69 years old, on February 26th, a truck bomb exploded in the garage under the North Tower of the World Trade Center. While the bomb didn't do what was planned (collapse the North Tower into the South Tower), it did kill six people and injured thousands of people.