Genealogy for
Jack Melvin Buchanan
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Jack Melvin Buchanan
1/25/1926 - 10/6/1968
(Shown at age 19)
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Jack Melvin Buchanan was born on January 25, 1926 in Tallahassee, Florida and died on October 6, 1968 in Tallahassee, Florida. He lived to be 42 years old.
He married on 7/23/1947 to Marilyn Lee Waskom. They had four children, Rodney, Margaret, Becky and Melvin. Jack served in WW II and worked for the Tallahassee Democrat following the war. | 
 | Census | 4/21/1931 | FL (Leon County) | 5 yrs old | | Recorded as family #111: John H. Buchanan (age 41), Susie E. (wife, age 40), Emma M. (daughter, age 20), Amanda V. (daughter, age 17), Joseph G. (son, age 15), James R. (son, age 13), Mary E. (daughter, age 11), Annie W. (daughter, age 7), Jack M. (son, age 4), Francis J. (daughter, age 2 months). John and Susie were married when he was 20 and she was 19. Both of Susie's parents were born in Alabama. The two youngest children (Jack and Francis) were born in Florida. Everyone else and their parents were born in Georgia. John says that he is employed as a foreman working on state roads and that he is not a veteran. |
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Jack, his family, and friends. For example, Jack is 1 years old when Charles Lindbergh becomes the first man to fly solo across the Atlantic Ocean and Babe Ruth hits 60 home runs.
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1928 |
The Tamiami Trail opens. It opens the southernmost 275 miles of U.S. Highway 41 from State Road 60 in Tampa to U.S. Route 1 (SR 5) in Miami, Florida to tourist. It also destroys many of the Seminole Indian waterways and hinders their economy. |
| 31 |
1957 |
The Miccosukee Tribe of Florida is organized under the 1934 US Indian Reorganization Act and recognized by the federal government. |
| 36 |
1962 |
The Seminole Tribe of Florida is organized under the 1934 US Indian Reorganization Act and recognized by the federal government. |
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| 1 |
1927 |
The first television transmission was announced in England |
| 2 |
1928 |
Big bang theory was introduced |
| 10 |
1936 |
The first regular television broadcast happens in England |
| 12 |
1938 |
Hahn, Strassmann, Meitner and Frisch discover nuclear fission |
| 20 |
1946 |
The university of Pennsylvania develops the ENIAC computer, containing 18,000 vacuum tubes |
| 21 |
1947 |
Researches at Bell Labs invent the first transistor |
| 25 |
1951 |
The first color television is introduced in the U.S. |
| 26 |
1952 |
The first sex-change surgery was performed to change George Jorgensen into Christine Jorgensen. |
| 31 |
1957 |
Sputnik is launched by the Soviets and becomes the first artificial satellite to orbit the earth. It marks the beginning of the great "space race" between the Soviet Union and the U.S. |
| 34 |
1960 |
The ruby laser was created by Maiman |
| 36 |
1962 |
U.S. astronaut, John Glenn, orbits the earth |
| 39 |
1965 |
The first "space walk" was completed by the Soviet Union |
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| 12 |
1938 |
NEWS HEADLINES: Orson Wells' radio production of H.G. Well's War of the Worlds causes a national panic. |
| 13 |
1939 |
NEWS HEADLINES: The first regular television broadcast happens in the United States |
| 15 |
1941 |
NEWS HEADLINES: December 7, 1941 -- Japan launches a surprise attack on Pearl Harbor and the US officially declares war on Japan the following day. World War II begins for American soldiers. |
| 24 |
1950 |
NEWS HEADLINES: On June 25, the Korean War begins and the United Nations officially declaring war on North Korea two days later. |
| 29 |
1955 |
NEWS HEADLINES: Rosa Parks refuses to give her seat to a white man on a bus in Montgomery, AL. |
| 34 |
1960 |
NEWS HEADLINES: The first birth control pill was approved and made available to the public |
| 37 |
1963 |
NEWS HEADLINES: On November 22, President John F. Kennedy is assassinated in Dallas, Texas by Lee Harvey Oswald. |
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| 1 |
1927 |
Charles Lindbergh becomes the first man to fly solo across the Atlantic Ocean and Babe Ruth hits 60 home runs. |
| 3 |
1929 |
Widespread prosperity of the 1920s ends abruptly with the stock market crash in October |
| 4 |
1930 |
Drought in the Great Plains area begins, creating hardship for farm families in 19 states. |
| 6 |
1932 |
Amelia Earhart becomes the first woman to fly solo across the Atlantic Ocean. The infant son of Charles Lindbergh is kidnapped and murdered. |
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1933 |
Franklin D. Roosevelt is elected president under his "New Deal" campaign. Frances Perkins becomes the first woman to hold a cabinet post when FDR appoints her secretary of labor. On December 5, the 21st Amendment is added to the Constitution, repealing Prohibition. Drinks for everyone! |
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1934 |
Farm families must leave the dust bowl-stricken Great Plains areas. The dust bowl includes areas in Kansas, Oklahoma, Texas, New Mexico, Nevada and Arkansas. Radio picks up the "Okie" songs. In all, 400,000 people leave the Great Plains. |
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1934 |
Congress passes the Indian Reorganization Act which allows remaining Indian tribes to reorganize. |
| 9 |
1935 |
Congress passes the Social Security Act, giving elder Americans Social Security money for the first time. |
| 13 |
1939 |
Hollywood releases The Wizard of Oz, one of the first films to be made in color. |
| 17 |
1943 |
Japanese Americans are relocated to internment camps; Almost 400,000 coal miners go on strike; Race riots break out in Los Angeles and Detroit. |
| 18 |
1944 |
On June 6, Allied forces invade Normandy (referred to as "D-Day") |
| 19 |
1945 |
President Roosevelt dies; The United Nations is established; the first atomic bomb is dropped on Hiroshima. |
| 28 |
1954 |
The nationally televised McCarthy hearings lead to Senator Joseph McCarthy's downfall; Segregation by race in schools is declared unconstitutional by the Supreme Court; Congress adds the words "under God" to the Pledge of Allegiance and requires "In God We Trust" to appear on all American currency. |
| 36 |
1962 |
The Cuban missile crisis escalates and Americans prepare for a Nuclear War with Fidel Castro in Cuba. |
| 40 |
1966 |
The Black Panther party is founded. |
| 41 |
1967 |
Martin Luther King leads an anti Vietnam protest in New York; The American Indian Movement is founded; Robert Kennedy and Martin Luther King are assassinated; Three Apollo astronauts are killed in a fire on the launch pad. |
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| 12 |
1938 |
Hitler annexes Anschluss into Germany. At the Munich Conference, Germany is given a portion of Czechoslovakia. |
| 13 |
1939 |
Hitler takes over all of Czechoslovakia. On Sept. 1st, Germany invades Poland. On Sept. 3rd, Great Britain and France declare war on Germany. World War II has begun. |
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1945 |
World War II ends with a Japanese delegation signing instrument of surrender aboard battleship Missouri in Tokyo Bay. |
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 Jack and Marilyn Buchanan |
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 | Marilyn Waskom
Born on February 18, 1928 and died on December 26, 1981.
They were married 7/23/1947.
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