View Genealogy for James Roswell Buchanan (3/27/1917-7/28/1979)

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James Roswell Buchanan

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	John H. Buchanan 3/30/1889 - 2/16/1967	Sulie Eugena Davis 3/8/1890 - 10/5/1972

About James Roswell Buchanan

James Roswell Buchanan
3/27/1917 - 7/28/1979
(Shown at age 18)

James Roswell Buchanan was born on March 27, 1917 in Zebulon, Georgia and died on July 28, 1979 in Chatham, Georgia. He lived to be 62 years old.

He married on 5/7/1940 to Betty Miller. They had two children, Stephen and Gwynn. He went by Jim, Roswell and most of the family members called him "Shorty" but he was not short (6 feet and then some).

Census	4/21/1931	FL (Leon County)	14 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.
Other	7/1/1979	Savannah FL	62 yrs old
Social Security Death Index records the last benefit paid to an address in Tallahassee, FL for James Buchanan (3/27/1917 - 7/1979). The last residence for James Buchanan was Savannah (Chatham Co) Georgia.

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Age	Date	Event
3	1920	Seminole, Lanier, Brantley, Long, and Lamar Counties are formed.
7	1924	Peach County is formed.

Age	Date	Event
6	1923	Diphtheria vaccine is developed; Insulin is produced to treat diabetes
6	1923	Freud publishes "The Ego and the Id"
7	1924	Insecticides are used for the first time on crops
9	1926	Goddard launched the first liquid-fueled rocket
10	1927	The first television transmission was announced in England
11	1928	Big bang theory was introduced
19	1936	The first regular television broadcast happens in England
21	1938	Hahn, Strassmann, Meitner and Frisch discover nuclear fission
29	1946	The university of Pennsylvania develops the ENIAC computer, containing 18,000 vacuum tubes
30	1947	Researches at Bell Labs invent the first transistor
34	1951	The first color television is introduced in the U.S.
35	1952	The first sex-change surgery was performed to change George Jorgensen into Christine Jorgensen.
40	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.
43	1960	The ruby laser was created by Maiman
45	1962	U.S. astronaut, John Glenn, orbits the earth
48	1965	The first "space walk" was completed by the Soviet Union
54	1971	The first unmanned spacecraft hit Mars and was launched by the Soviet Union
57	1974	Discovery of "Lucy" in Africa, an almost complete hominid skeleton over 3 million years old, only 3 and a half feet tall but having adult teeth, a small brain, walked upright
58	1975	Invention of the CAT scanner (computerized axial tomography)
62	1979	First "test tube baby" from artificial insemination

Age	Date	Event
2	1919	NEWS HEADLINES: World War I ends with the signing of The Versailles Treaty.
21	1938	NEWS HEADLINES: Orson Wells' radio production of H.G. Well's War of the Worlds causes a national panic.
22	1939	NEWS HEADLINES: The first regular television broadcast happens in the United States
24	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.
33	1950	NEWS HEADLINES: On June 25, the Korean War begins and the United Nations officially declaring war on North Korea two days later.
38	1955	NEWS HEADLINES: Rosa Parks refuses to give her seat to a white man on a bus in Montgomery, AL.
43	1960	NEWS HEADLINES: The first birth control pill was approved and made available to the public
46	1963	NEWS HEADLINES: On November 22, President John F. Kennedy is assassinated in Dallas, Texas by Lee Harvey Oswald.
52	1969	NEWS HEADLINES: In July, the U.S. becomes the first nation to land astronauts on the moon. Neil Armstrong becomes the first man to step on the lunar surface.
53	1970	NEWS HEADLINES: U.S. forces invade Cambodia and the Vietnam War continues to escalate. Janis Joplin and Jimi Hendrix die of drug overdoses. Four Kent State University students are killed during a Vietnam War protest.
60	1977	NEWS HEADLINES: Star Wars is released and becomes the biggest ticket selling movie of all time.

Age	Date	Event
10	1927	Charles Lindbergh becomes the first man to fly solo across the Atlantic Ocean and Babe Ruth hits 60 home runs.
12	1929	Widespread prosperity of the 1920s ends abruptly with the stock market crash in October
13	1930	Drought in the Great Plains area begins, creating hardship for farm families in 19 states.
15	1932	Amelia Earhart becomes the first woman to fly solo across the Atlantic Ocean. The infant son of Charles Lindbergh is kidnapped and murdered.
16	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!
17	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.
17	1934	Congress passes the Indian Reorganization Act which allows remaining Indian tribes to reorganize.
18	1935	Congress passes the Social Security Act, giving elder Americans Social Security money for the first time.
22	1939	Hollywood releases The Wizard of Oz, one of the first films to be made in color.
26	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.
27	1944	On June 6, Allied forces invade Normandy (referred to as "D-Day")
28	1945	President Roosevelt dies; The United Nations is established; the first atomic bomb is dropped on Hiroshima.
37	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.
45	1962	The Cuban missile crisis escalates and Americans prepare for a Nuclear War with Fidel Castro in Cuba.
49	1966	The Black Panther party is founded.
50	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.
54	1971	Charles Manson is found guilt of murder.
55	1972	Break-in at the Democratic headquarters sets of the Watergate Scandal.
56	1973	The Vietnam War peace pacts were signed in Paris and the last of the American forces finally leave Vietnam.
60	1977	Jimmy Carter, a Democrat from GA, is elected president.

Age	Date	Event
2	1919	The Versailles Treaty marks the official end of World War I.
3	1920	Adolph Hitler begins to organize the Nazi party in Germany; The Ku Klux Klan launches a recruitment campaign using mass marketing techniques to gain 85,000 new recruits; the first commercial broadcast is made.
21	1938	Hitler annexes Anschluss into Germany. At the Munich Conference, Germany is given a portion of Czechoslovakia.
22	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.
28	1945	World War II ends with a Japanese delegation signing instrument of surrender aboard battleship Missouri in Tokyo Bay.

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