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Thomas Brightful 1920 - 1987

Thomas Brightful of Philadelphia, Philadelphia County, PA was born on May 20, 1920, and died at age 66 years old in February 1987.
Thomas Brightful
Philadelphia, Philadelphia County, PA 19132
May 20, 1920
February 1987
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    1920

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    May 20, 1920
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    1987

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    February 1987
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    Thomas Brightful lived 2 years shorter than the average family member when died at the age of 66.
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In 1920, in the year that Thomas Brightful was born, on November 2, radio station KDKA began broadcasting in Pittsburgh, PA. This was the first commercial radio broadcast in the United States. Westinghouse, a leading manufacturer of radios and the backer of the station, chose the date because of the Presidential election. People liked it because they could hear about the results of the election between Harding and Cox before the morning papers arrived. Four years later, there were 600 commercial stations broadcasting in the U.S.
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In 1945, at the age of 25 years old, Thomas was alive when on April 12th, President Franklin D. Roosevelt died of a cerebral hemorrhage in Warm Springs, Georgia. At 1p, he was sitting for a portrait when he complained that he had a "terrific pain" in the back of his head and collapsed. A doctor was summoned and the doctor gave him a shot of adrenaline into his heart. It didn't help and he was pronounced dead at 3:30 p.m. A slow moving train took him back to Washington D.C. while thousands of mourners lined the tracks. He was buried at his home in Hyde Park, New York.
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