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Raleigh Rainey 1924 - 1989

Raleigh Rainey was born on August 16, 1924, and died at age 64 years old on May 1, 1989. Raleigh Rainey was buried at New Albany National Cemetery Section C Site 202 1943 Ekin Avenue, in New Albany, In. Family, friend, or fan, this family history biography is for you to remember Raleigh Rainey.
Raleigh Rainey
August 16, 1924
May 1, 1989
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  • 08/16
    1924

    Birthday

    August 16, 1924
    Birthdate
    Unknown
    Birthplace
  • Military Service

    Branch of service: Us Army Rank attained: PFC Wars/Conflicts: World War Ii
  • 05/1
    1989

    Death

    May 1, 1989
    Death date
    Unknown
    Cause of death
    Unknown
    Death location
  • Gravesite & Burial

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    New Albany National Cemetery Section C Site 202 1943 Ekin Avenue, in New Albany, In 47150
    Burial location
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In 1924, in the year that Raleigh Rainey 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, when he 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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