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Dorothee Wait 1911 - 1981

Dorothee Wait of Tulsa, Tulsa County, Oklahoma was born on May 3, 1911, and died at age 69 years old in February 1981.
Dorothee Wait
Tulsa, Tulsa County, Oklahoma 74105
May 3, 1911
February 1981
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Dorothee Wait's History: 1911 - 1981

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    1911

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    May 3, 1911
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  • 02/dd
    1981

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    February 1981
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    Dorothee Wait lived 7 years shorter than the average family member when died at the age of 69.
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In 1911, in the year that Dorothee Wait was born, the Triangle Shirtwaist fire occurred, one of the deadliest industrial disasters in U.S. history. 146 workers (123 women and 23 men, many of them recent Jewish and Italian immigrants) died from the fire or by jumping to escape the fire and smoke. The garment factory was on the 8th, 9th, and 10th floors of a building in Greenwich Village in Manhattan. Doors to stairwells and exits had been locked in order to prevent workers from taking unauthorized breaks and to prevent theft, so they couldn't escape by normal means when the fire broke out. Due to the disaster, legislation was passed to protect sweatshop workers.
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In 1921, Dorothee was merely 10 years old when hugely popular Roscoe "Fatty" Arbuckle, silent film star, was arrested for rape and manslaughter after an actress died following a party at his house. He was acquitted after three trials and the jury wrote a formal letter apologizing for the charges, but his career never recovered. His films were at first banned - the ban was lifted after a year - and he was mostly ostracized by the community. He died at 46..
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