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Roy Fitts 1911 - 2010

Roy Fitts of De Smet, Kingsbury County, South Dakota was born on November 26, 1911, and died at age 98 years old on November 1, 2010.
Roy Fitts
De Smet, Kingsbury County, South Dakota 57231
November 26, 1911
November 1, 2010
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  • 11/26
    1911

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    November 26, 1911
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  • 11/1
    2010

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    November 1, 2010
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    Roy Fitts lived 25 years longer than the average family member when died at the age of 98.
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In 1911, in the year that Roy Fitts was born, the first Indianapolis 500 was run in May. Ray Harroun was the winner - he was an engineer and had retired from racing but he came back for this race. After the race, he retired for good. The purse was $27,550 - the largest offered up to that time - and Harroun received $10,000 for first place. His average time was 74.602 mph.
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In 1924, Roy was merely 13 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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