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William L Peterson 1920 - 1999

William L Peterson of Newport News, Newport News City County, VA was born on July 20, 1920, and died at age 78 years old on May 20, 1999.
William L Peterson
Newport News, Newport News City County, VA 23608
July 20, 1920
May 20, 1999
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    1920

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    1999

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    William L Peterson lived 4 years longer than the average family member when died at the age of 78.
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In 1920, in the year that William L Peterson 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, he was 25 years old 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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