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Ronald Smith 1943 - 2019

Ronald Smith was born in 1943 in Buffalo, Erie County, New York United States to "Buffalo Bob Smith" Host of The Howdy Doody Show and Mildred Carolyn Metz Smith, and had siblings Christopher Smith and Robin Smith. He married Rosemary Smith in 1965, and they were married until Ronald's death on June 19, 2019. Ronald Smith had children Robert Smith and Meg Read.
Ronald Smith
1943
Buffalo, Erie County, New York, United States
June 19, 2019
Columbus, Polk County, North Carolina, United States
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  • 1943

    Birthday

    1943
    Birthdate
    Buffalo, Erie County, New York United States
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  • 06/19
    2019

    Death

    June 19, 2019
    Death date
    Unknown
    Cause of death
    Columbus, Polk County, North Carolina United States
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    Ronald Smith lived 4 years longer than the average family member when died at the age of 76.
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In 1943, in the year that Ronald Smith was born, on June 20th through June 22nd, the Detroit Race Riot erupted at Belle Isle Park. The rioting spread throughout the city (made worse by false rumors of attacks on blacks and whites) and resulted in the deployment of 6,000 Federal troops. 34 people were killed, (25 of them black) - mostly by white police or National Guardsmen, 433 were wounded (75 percent of them black) and an estimated $2 million of property was destroyed. The same summer, there were riots in Beaumont, Texas and Harlem, New York.
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In 1952, he was merely 9 years old when on July 2, Dr. Jonas E. Salk tested the first dead-virus polio vaccine on 43 children. The worst epidemic of polio had broken out that year - in the U.S. there were 58,000 cases reported. Of these, 3,145 people had died and 21,269 were left with mild to disabling paralysis.
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