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Lela R. (Debord) Bennetsen c. 1942

Lela R Bennetsen of TX was born circa 1942. Lela Bennetsen was married to Leon Bennetsen on October 2, 1979 in Lavaca County, TX. Family, friend, or fan, this family history biography is for you to remember Lela R. (Debord) Bennetsen.
Lela R Bennetsen
TX
circa 1942
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In 1942, in the year that Lela R. (Debord) Bennetsen was born, 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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In 1958, on January 31st, Explorer I, the United States' answer to Sputnik I (and 2,) was launched. America had entered the Space Race. The first spacecraft to detect the Van Allen radiation belt, it remained in orbit until 1970.
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Leon Bennetsen

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Lela R. (Debord) Bennetsen

October 2, 1979
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Lavaca County, TX
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