Tressie Johnson (1926 - 1926)

Tressie's immediate relatives including parents, siblings, partnerships and children in the Johnson family tree.

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Tressie's Family

Jesse Lewis Johnson

Emma Isabelle Nestor

Jessie Johnson Tressie Johnson

Aethea (Johnson) Southwick Jeanette Johnson

Parents:

Jesse Lewis Johnson

Jan 29, 1896 - May 18, 1978

Emma Isabelle Nestor

Oct 20, 1905 - Mar 18, 1995

Siblings:

Aethea (Johnson) Southwick

May 10, 1929 - Unknown

Jessie Johnson

Sep 5, 1926 - May 23, 1997

Jeanette Johnson

Oct 17, 1932 - Unknown

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Bruce Joseph Forsyth-Johnson

Norma P Johnson

Frank E Johnson

Frank E Johnson

Bret Leroy Johnson

Michael Hugh Johnson as Logan in Logan's Run

Logan's Run 1976 Behind the Scenes

Harry Johnson

Aki Johnson

Henry and Fanny Johnson

Dorthea C (Lozar) Thompson Gravesite

Dorthea Thompson and Pamela Johnson

Jquanda Janee Johnson

Sandra Lee Johnson

Carolyn, Gladis, and Viola Johnson

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In 1926, in the year that Tressie Johnson was born, on November 15th, NBC was founded. It was the U.S.'s first major broadcast network. Ownership of the network was split between RCA (a majority partner at 50%), its founding corporate parent General Electric (which owned 30%), and Westinghouse (which owned the remaining 20%).

In 1927, at the age of merely 1 year old, Tressie was alive when aviator and media darling Charles Lindbergh, age 25, made the first successful solo TransAtlantic flight. "Lucky Lindy" took off from Long Island in New York and flew to Paris, covering  3,600 statute miles and flying for 33 1⁄2-hours. His plane "The Spirit of St. Louis" was a fabric-covered, single-seat, single-engine "Ryan NYP" high-wing monoplane designed by both Lindbergh and the manufacturer's chief engineer.

In 1928, she was only 2 years old when aviatrix Amelia Earhart, age 31, became the first woman to fly solo across North America and back in August. In June, she had been part of a 3 man crew that flew the Atlantic Ocean but since she had no instrument training, she couldn't fly the plane - she kept the flight log. The North American flight became one of her many "firsts" as a female pilot.

In 1934, at the age of only 8 years old, Tressie was alive when 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.