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Ruth M Porterfield 1922 - 2005

Ruth M Porterfield of Roanoke, Roanoke County, VA was born on April 9, 1922, and died at age 83 years old on December 15, 2005.
Ruth M Porterfield
Roanoke, Roanoke County, VA 24019
April 9, 1922
December 15, 2005
Female
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  • 04/9
    1922

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    April 9, 1922
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  • 12/15
    2005

    Death

    December 15, 2005
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    Ruth M Porterfield lived 10 years longer than the average family member when died at the age of 83.
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In 1922, in the year that Ruth M Porterfield was born, on June 22, coal miners in Herrin Illinois, were on strike (coal miners had been on strike nationally since April 1). The striking miners were outraged at the strikebreakers (scabs) that the company had brought in and laid siege to the mine. Three union workers were killed when gunfire was exchanged. The next day, union miners killed 23 strikebreakers and mine guards. No one, on either side, ever faced jail time.
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In 1935, at the age of merely 13 years old, Ruth was alive when the BOI's name (the Bureau of Investigation) was changed to the FBI (Federal Bureau of Investigation) and it officially became a separate agency with the Department of Justice. J. Edgar Hoover, the Chief of the BOI, continued in his office and became the first Director of the FBI. The FBI's responsibility is to "detect and prosecute crimes against the United States".
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