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Luretta Burks 1924 - 1977

Luretta Burks of Buffalo, Erie County, New York was born on July 29, 1924, and died at age 52 years old in May 1977.
Luretta Burks
Buffalo, Erie County, New York 14204
July 29, 1924
May 1977
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Luretta Burks' History: 1924 - 1977

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    1924

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    July 29, 1924
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  • 05/dd
    1977

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    May 1977
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    Luretta Burks lived 18 years shorter than the average family member when died at the age of 52.
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In 1924, in the year that Luretta Burks 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 June 17th, Roosevelt approved the Manhattan Project, which lead to the development of the first atomic bomb. With the support of Canada and the United Kingdom, the Project came to employ more than 130,000 people and cost nearly $2 billion. Julius Robert Oppenheimer, a nuclear physicist born in New York, led the Los Alamos Laboratory that developed the actual bomb. The first artificial nuclear explosion took place near Alamogordo New Mexico on July 16, 1945.
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