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Thomas R Thornton 1934 - 2008

Thomas R Thornton of Manassas, Manassas City County, VA was born on June 5, 1934, and died at age 74 years old on September 8, 2008.
Thomas R Thornton
Manassas, Manassas City County, VA 20110
June 5, 1934
September 8, 2008
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  • 06/5
    1934

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    June 5, 1934
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  • 09/8
    2008

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    September 8, 2008
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    Thomas R Thornton lived 3 years longer than the average family member when died at the age of 74.
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In 1934, in the year that Thomas R Thornton was born, on July 22nd, gangster John Dillinger was killed in Chicago. His gang had robbed banks and police stations, among other charges, and he was being hunted by J. Edgar Hoover, head of the FBI - although many in the public saw him as a "Robin Hood". A madam from a brothel in which he was hiding became an informer for the FBI and, after a shootout with FBI agents, Dillinger was shot and died.
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In 1942, when he was merely 8 years old, on February 19th, President Roosevelt signed Executive Order 9066. This authorized the Secretary of War to "prescribe certain areas as military zones." On March 21st, he signed Public Law 503 which was approved after an hour discussion in the Senate and 30 minutes in the House. The Law provided for enforcement of his Executive Order. This cleared the way for approximately 120,000 men, women, and children of Japanese ancestry to be evicted from the West Coast and to be held in concentration camps and other confinement sites across the country. In Hawaii, a few thousand were detained. German and Italian Americans in the U.S. were also confined.
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