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William R Pickett

2 Apr 1918 - 31 Aug 1970

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William R Pickett

2 Apr 1918 - 31 Aug 1970

The burial record of William R Pickett. Cemetery: Port Hudson National Cemetery, Location: Zachary, East Baton Rouge, Louisiana, United States. Birth: 2 Apr 1918, Death: 31 Aug 1970.

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William R Pickett

Born: 2 Apr 1918

Died: 31 Aug 1970

Port Hudson National Cemetery

20978 Port Hickey Rd

Zachary, East Baton Rouge, Louisiana

United States

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Department of Veterans Affairs
Cemetery: PORT HUDSON NATIONAL CEMETERY
Plot: SECTION D SITE 534
Website: http://www.cem.va.gov/CEM/cems/nchp/porthudson.asp
Address: 20978 PORT HICKEY ROAD ZACHARY, LA 70791
Phone: (225) 654-3767
VA ID: 313372

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US MARINE CORPS

KOREAN WAR,WORLD WAR II

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MSGT - US MARINE CORPS - WORLD WAR II, KOREA

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KOREAN WAR,WORLD WAR II

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SECTION D SITE 534

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William R Pickett was born on 2 Apr 1918

William R Pickett was 2 years old when The Nineteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution was ratified, guaranteeing women's suffrage in America. The Nineteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution prohibits the states and the federal government from denying the right to vote to citizens of the United States on the basis of sex. It was adopted on August 18, 1920.

William R Pickett was 21 years old when Adolf Hitler signs an order to begin the systematic euthanasia of mentally ill and disabled people. Adolf Hitler was a German politician, demagogue, and Pan-German revolutionary, who was the leader of the Nazi Party, Chancellor of Germany from 1933 to 1945 and Führer ("Leader") of Nazi Germany from 1934 to 1945. As dictator, Hitler initiated World War II in Europe with the invasion of Poland in September 1939, and was central to the Holocaust.

William R Pickett was 22 years old when The Holocaust: The first prisoners arrive at a new concentration camp at Auschwitz. The Holocaust, also referred to as the Shoah, was a genocide during World War II in which Nazi Germany, aided by its collaborators, systematically murdered some six million European Jews, around two-thirds of the Jewish population of Europe, between 1941 and 1945. Jews were targeted for extermination as part of a larger event involving the persecution and murder of other groups, including in particular the Roma and "incurably sick", as well as ethnic Poles and other Slavs, Soviet citizens, Soviet prisoners of war, political opponents, gay men and Jehovah's Witnesses, resulting in up to 17 million deaths overall.

William R Pickett was 35 years old when Jonas Salk announced the successful test of his polio vaccine on a small group of adults and children (vaccination pictured). Jonas Edward Salk was an American medical researcher and virologist. He discovered and developed one of the first successful polio vaccines. Born in New York City, he attended New York University School of Medicine, later choosing to do medical research instead of becoming a practicing physician. In 1939, after earning his medical degree, Salk began an internship as a physician scientist at Mount Sinai Hospital. Two years later he was granted a fellowship at the University of Michigan, where he would study flu viruses with his mentor Thomas Francis, Jr.

William R Pickett was 46 years old when John F. Kennedy was assassinated by Lee Harvey Oswald in Dallas, Texas; hours later, Lyndon B. Johnson was sworn in aboard Air Force One as the 36th President of the United States. John Fitzgerald Kennedy, commonly referred to by his initials JFK, was an American politician who served as the 35th President of the United States from January 1961 until his assassination in November 1963. He served at the height of the Cold War, and the majority of his presidency dealt with managing relations with the Soviet Union. As a member of the Democratic Party, Kennedy represented the state of Massachusetts in the United States House of Representatives and the U.S. Senate prior to becoming president.

William R Pickett died on 31 Aug 1970 at the age of 52

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