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William Ralph Bessent 1937 - 2010

William Ralph Bessent of Walterboro, Colleton County, South Carolina was born on July 22, 1937, and died at age 72 years old on May 7, 2010.

William Ralph Bessent

Walterboro, Colleton County, South Carolina 29488

July 22, 1937

May 7, 2010

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July 22, 1937

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William Ralph Bessent lived 3 years longer than the average family member when died at the age of 72.

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In 1937, in the year that William Ralph Bessent was born, on May 6th, the German zeppelin the Hindenburg caught fire and blew up. The Hindenburg was a passenger ship traveling to Frankfurt Germany. It tried to dock in New Jersey, one of the stops, and something went wrong - it blew up. Thirty-six people were killed out of the 97 on board - 13 passengers, 22 crewmen, and one ground worker. The reasons for the explosion are still disputed.

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In 1942, at the age of merely 5 years old, William was alive when 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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