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Christensen, Paul J.
Paul Christensen was born on August 26, 1932. He grew up in Las Vegas, Nevada during the World War II era. His parents were M.J. and Hazel Christensen, founders of a jewelry business. He attended the Fifth Street Grammar School, the John S. Park School, and Las Vegas High School. Too young to enlist, he was of an age that could focus on his education and opportunities for success. He attended college, earned a marketing degree, and joined the Air Force ROTC program. He flew B-47 bombers during the Cold War.
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Blanchard, Lucius, 1942-
Lucius Blanchard grew up in Ahoskie, North Carolina, and attended the University of North Carolina Medical School at Chapel Hill. After acquiring his medical degree, he joined the military for two years and upon leaving became chief resident for the University of Louisville. While there, he took dermatology training and cancer surgery training in the University of Wisconsin allowing him to specialize in skin cancer surgery.
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Fisher, Bob (1947 April 29-)
Robert D. "Bob" Fisher is a Las Vegas, Nevada broadcast personality and lobbyist. He was born in Minneapolis, Minnesota and moved to Las Vegas to around 1992 when he was hired as the founding president and CEO of the Nevada Broadcasters Association (NVBA). During his 22 years as head of the NVBA, he produced and hosted Observations, a public affairs program broadcasted on radio and television throughout the state of Nevada.
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Nusser, Grace A., 1898-1952
Grace A. Nusser was born in approximately 1898. She married George F. Nusser in Santa Ana, California on August 20, 1923, who worked for the Bureau of Power and Light in Los Angeles, California. They later moved to Boulder City, Nevada on June 1, 1936. Grace A. Nusser killed George F. Nusser on April 27, 1937, and was sentenced to life in Nevada State Prison for first degree murder. She served approximately a year and a half in prison before being transferred to the Nevada State Hospital in Reno, Nevada in approximately 1939. She died June 9, 1952.
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Chris Davis, Debbie Davis, and Mynda Smith oral history interview
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