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Leata Duncan 1916 - 2007

Leata Duncan of Asheville, Buncombe County, NC was born on December 25, 1916, and died at age 90 years old on November 1, 2007.
Leata Duncan
Asheville, Buncombe County, NC 28801
December 25, 1916
November 1, 2007
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Leata Duncan's History: 1916 - 2007

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  • 12/25
    1916

    Birthday

    December 25, 1916
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  • 11/1
    2007

    Death

    November 1, 2007
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    Leata Duncan lived 18 years longer than the average family member when died at the age of 90.
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In 1916, in the year that Leata Duncan was born, visiting nurse Margaret Sanger opened the first birth control clinic in the U.S. at 46 Amboy St. in Brooklyn New York. Ten days after the clinic opened, Sanger was arrested for "violating laws against giving out birth control information" which was defined as obscenity. The clinic was not handing out birth control - just information about sex and birth control methods. (The Comstock law categorized information about abortion, family planning, and contraception as “obscene”.) The clinics and organizations that Sanger established later evolved into the Planned Parenthood Federation of America.
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In 1921, at the age of just 5 years old, Leata was alive 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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