the first man walked on the moon, Kennedy's assassination, etc. Who were the Presidents of the United States during his lifetime? William McKinnley, Theodore Roosevelt, William Howard Taft, Woodrow Wilson, Warren G. Harding, Calvin Coolidge, Herbert Hoover, Franklin Roosevelt, Harry Truman, Dwight Eisenhour, John F. Kennedy, Lyndon B. Johnson and Richard Nixon.

What happened in Chicago during his lifetime? With the expansion of the railroads, Chicago's manufacturing and retail sectors grew and dominated. The Chicago Union Stock Yards dominated the packing trade. Chicago became the world's largest rail hub, and one of its busiest ports by shipping traffic on the Great Lakes.In 1906 journalist Upton Sinclair published “The Jungle,” a novel that exposed cruel and unsafe practices in the city’s meatpacking industry. Chicago, along with the state of NewYork, became the center of the nation's advertising industry. Social upheavals surrounding World War I brought many African-American migrants to Chicago from the South. They found new opportunities and a vibrant cultural community that soon gave birth to Chicago’s versions of blues and jazz. Tensions arose between the newcomers and Chicago’s established Irish, Polish and German ethnic groups, leading to a string of bombings of African-American homes between 1917 and 1921, as well as an eight-day race riot in 1919. By the 1930s Chicago’s population reached 3 million. Gangsters, namely Al Capone and John Dillinger, dominated the headlines in the 1930's. These are just a few things going on in Chicago. My point being, old John Doe lived through these things and we can imagine how they affected