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Wenceslao Cotto 1924 - 1993

Wenceslao Cotto of San Juan, San Juan County, PR was born on April 12, 1924, and died at age 68 years old in February 1993.
Wenceslao Cotto
San Juan, San Juan County, PR 00923
April 12, 1924
February 1993
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  • 04/12
    1924

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    April 12, 1924
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  • 02/dd
    1993

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    February 1993
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    Wenceslao Cotto lived 1 year longer than the average family member when died at the age of 68.
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In 1924, in the year that Wenceslao Cotto was born, in May, wealthy college students Nathan Leopold and Richard Loeb kidnapped and killed 14 year old Robert Franks "in the interest of science". Leopold and Loeb thought that they were intellectually superior and that they could commit the perfect crime and not be caught. They were brought in for questioning within 8 days and quickly confessed. Clarence Darrow was hired as their defense lawyer, getting them life imprisonment instead of a death sentence. Loeb was eventually killed in prison - Leopold was released after 33 years, dying of a heart attack at age 66.
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In 1942, by the time this person was 18 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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