Roy Thompson (1897 - 1949)

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Roy's Family

Thompson Rich Thompson

Rose Anne Oliver Thompson

Roy Thompson

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Thompson Rich Thompson

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Rose Anne Oliver Thompson

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Charles James Thompson Obituary

Added: Aug 06, 2020

Ferris Earl Thompson

Added: Aug 06, 2020

Charles James Thompson Gravesite

Added: Aug 05, 2020

Dorthea C (Lozar) Thompson

Added: Aug 05, 2020

Dorthea C (Lozar) Thompson Obituary

Added: Jul 23, 2020

Dorthea C (Lozar) Thompson

Added: Jul 23, 2020

Dorthea C (Lozar) Thompson Gravesite

Added: Jul 23, 2020

Dorthea Thompson and Pamela Johnson

Added: Jul 23, 2020

Ferris Earl Thompson

Added: Jul 23, 2020

Dorthea C (Lozar) Thompson

Added: Jul 22, 2020

In Duck, North Carolina

Added: Jun 04, 2020

Thompson Sisters

Added: May 15, 2020

Faith E Thompson

Added: Apr 14, 2020

Thompson family

Added: Apr 14, 2020

Will Thompson and Family

Added: Mar 03, 2020

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In 1897, in the year that Roy Thompson was born, on March 4th, William McKinley became the 25th President of the United States. He had beaten William Jennings Bryan in the 1896 election by 51% to 46.7% in the popular vote. Six months into his second term as President, McKinley was assassinated.

In 1915, when he was 18 years old, Audrey Munson, playing a model for a sculptor in the film "Inspiration", became the first actress to shed her clothes on screen. Fearing that banning the film would mean that censors would also have to "ban Renaissance art" the film was released, with Munson in the nude scenes and a stand-in doing the acting. (Munson had previously been "America's First Supermodel" and posed nude as the model for many famous artworks.) The film was a hit with audiences.

In 1920, when he was 23 years old, in September, a bomb exploded in the J.P. Morgan bank building in New York City, killing 30 people immediately - 8 later died due to their injuries - and injuring another 200. Killing more people than the 1910 bombing of the LA Times (the deadliest terrorist act up until then), no one took responsibility and the perpetrators were never found. Italian anarchists were suspected of the bombing.

In 1937, by the time he was 40 years old, on May 28th, the San Francisco Golden Gate Bridge opened to cars. Taking 5 years to build, the 4,200-foot-long suspension bridge was an engineering marvel of its time - 11 men died during construction. The "international orange" color was chosen because it resisted rust and fading. To the present, it is the symbol of the City that is known throughout the world.

In 1949, in the year of Roy Thompson's passing, on April 4th, NATO (the North Atlantic Treaty Organization) was established. Twelve nations originally signed the North Atlantic Treaty - the United States, Great Britain, France, Belgium, the Netherlands, Denmark, Italy, Luxembourg, Norway, Iceland, Canada, and Portugal. Greece, Turkey, and West Germany later joined. Today, there are 26 nations in NATO.