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Ruth Leissa 1918 - 1985

Ruth Leissa of Orlando, Orange County, Florida was born on May 16, 1918, and died at age 67 years old in October 1985.

Ruth Leissa
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Orlando, Orange County, Florida 32817
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May 16, 1918
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Ruth Leissa Ruth Leissa (1918 - 1985)
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In 1918, in the year that Ruth Leissa was born, on November 1, an elevated train on the Brooklyn line of the subway - driven by an inexperienced operator because of a strike - tried to navigate a turn at 30mph. The limit on the curve was 6 mph. The 2nd and 3rd cars of the 5 car wooden train were badly damaged and at least 93 people were killed, making it the deadliest crash in New York subway history.
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In 1943, Ruth was 25 years old when 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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