What Does Tom Hanks Teach? The Wisdom of the Universal Everyman

The Soul Blueprint of Tom Hanks — The Christed Teacher Who Made Sincerity a Craft

By Shams-Tabriz · A reading in the Soul Blueprint method · 22 minute read

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Savannah, Georgia — summer of 1994. A man in white clothes and white shoes sits on a park bench, a box of chocolates balanced on his lap, waiting for a bus. He is not waiting for anything dramatic. He is not rehearsing. He is simply sitting, the way a man with nowhere particularly urgent to be sits — present, available, unhurried — and when the woman beside him asks about his shoes, he begins to talk.

“My momma always said life was like a box of chocolates,” he tells her. “You never know what you’re gonna get.”

The line became the most quoted sentence from an American film in a generation. It appeared on coffee mugs and cross-stitch samplers and refrigerator magnets. It was repeated so many millions of times, with such cheerful frequency, that the depth underneath it was almost entirely obscured — and what was underneath it was not a fortune-cookie maxim. What was underneath it was a three-hour film that had done something almost impossible: it had put sincerity in the center of the frame without irony, without apology, without any of the cynical hedging that American pop culture had come to require as the price of admission for anyone who wanted to be taken seriously. Forrest Gump was not clever. Forrest Gump was good. And the culture that watched him — a culture ravenous for cynicism, expert at deflection, practiced in the performance of not-caring — watched and wept. And kept watching.

The man who sat on the bench was Tom Hanks. He was thirty-seven years old. He had already won one consecutive Academy Award for Best Actor; at that ceremony he would win another, becoming the first actor in history to win the prize in back-to-back years. And the thing that no biography of Tom Hanks adequately explains is not the Oscars and not the box-office records and not the seventy-year career arc — it is the feeling people have watching him. The feeling that he is not performing sincerity. That he is, somehow, genuinely present in a way that the machinery of Hollywood almost never permits. That what you are watching when you watch Tom Hanks is not a technique. It is a soul.

This reading is an attempt to name what that soul has been teaching — through the films and the roles and the decades of choosing the ordinary human pushed to the edge of their capacity — in terms precise enough that the teaching can be received by anyone whose own life is asking something of them that ordinary advice cannot reach. The reading moves through the eight chapters of the Soul Blueprint architecture — The Arrival, The Soul’s Inheritance, The Living of It, The Soul’s Calling, The Soul’s Territories, The Name You Carry, The Moment, and The Invitation — and at the end, the same instrument turns gently toward you. There is a reason you arrived at a reading about Tom Hanks. The teaching is not about him alone.

At a Glance

Chapter One — The Arrival

The Sun arriving in the sign of the homebuilder — in Cancer’s seventeenth degree, in the late morning hours of a July day in Concord, California — placed the central axis of identity in the emotional intelligence of the ordinary domestic life. Not the visionary. Not the emperor. The neighbor. The one who notices who is missing from the table. The one for whom home — its making, its loss, its recovery — is not the backdrop for the drama of existence but the drama itself.

Fused with the Virgo Ascendant’s craftsman’s genius — the modest, diligent everyman who attends so precisely to the small, true detail of each ordinary person that everyone in the room feels exactly seen — and the Leo Moon’s full inhabiting of the stage as emotional home, the instrument that arrived on 9 July 1956 was calibrated from first breath to make the intimate feel universal. Every audience for every film feels, watching Tom Hanks, that the film was made specifically for them. The Arrival, for this soul, was the beginning of a long walk from the private and domestic into the wide horizon of the universally human.

Chapter Two — The Soul’s Inheritance

The nomadic childhood — his parents’ divorce at five, the years moving between cities with his father, the attending of many schools — was not the wound the Soul Blueprint counts as the inheritance. The inheritance ran beneath it, through it, and made use of it.

The surname Hanks traces through a diminutive form of John — God is gracious — and carries in its bones the frequency of the ordinary, the gracious, the unheroic grace of the everyday man. The father was a cook and a restaurant worker, a man who made a table where people could gather. Three generations of that name prepared the air for a soul whose entire vocation would be built on insisting, film after film and decade after decade, that the everyday person deserves the full weight of a soul’s attention. The inheritance was the permission to be earnest — in an era that would do everything it could to make earnestness embarrassing.

Chapter Three — The Living of It

The wound is the wound of provisional belonging — the belonging that is real while it lasts, that cannot be relied upon to last, that has to be rebuilt from scratch in every new city with every new school and every new set of strangers. What this teaches a soul — what it teaches the body, in the pre-verbal way bodies learn — is that the capacity for belonging must live inside you rather than in the external structure, because the external structure has already proven that it leaves. The child who learned to make himself at home everywhere, because nowhere was reliably home, became the actor who makes every audience feel personally seen — not because he performs intimacy but because genuine intimacy is the survival skill he developed before he was old enough to know it was a skill.

The wound became the qualification in the most direct possible way. The child who learned to read rooms became the actor who could play any room. The provisional belonging became the universal belonging. The wound and the gift were the same apparatus, looked at from opposite ends.

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Chapter Four — The Soul’s Calling

The teaching of Tom Hanks is not a philosophy you can read in a book. It is not a doctrine he has articulated in interviews. It is a demonstration — enacted across four decades of role choice, repeated with the consistency of a vow — and the demonstration has three distinct movements.

The first teaching: earnestness is not naivety. The culture Tom Hanks came of age in — the post-Vietnam, post-Watergate American cultural landscape that produced the ironic detachment of Gen X, the knowing wink of postmodernism, the refusal of sincerity as a mark of sophistication — that culture had decided, collectively and quietly, that earnestness was embarrassing. To care openly was to be manipulated. To weep at films was to be sentimental. To say something directly, without a layer of self-protective irony, was to be credulous. Tom Hanks rejected this premise with every choice he made, and the rejection required more courage than any cynicism does, because cynicism is safe and sincerity is exposed. Forrest Gump was the purest argument against this premise the American cinema has ever made. Forrest was not clever. He did not understand the historical events he walked through. He had no theory of anything. And he emerged from every event — Vietnam, Watergate, the counterculture, the AIDS crisis — not through cunning or irony but through love. The film’s argument was that love is not naive. Love is the only intelligence adequate to the complexity of a human life, and everything else is a sophisticated form of hiding. Tom Hanks made that argument visible with his body, and the culture wept, and kept weeping, because it recognized something it had been telling itself to disbelieve.

“There’s no harm in hoping for the best,” he told a reporter once, “as long as you’re prepared for the worst.” That is not naivety. That is the discipline of keeping the heart open in the face of what the world actually is. It is one of the hardest things a soul can do.

The second teaching: the ordinary life contains extraordinary depth. This is the through-line of the entire career, and it is worth naming with specificity. Forrest Gump — an ordinary man walking through American history without understanding it. Cast Away — a FedEx executive alone on a desert island with a volleyball. Philadelphia — a corporate lawyer dying of AIDS, asking only to be treated with dignity. Captain Phillips — a merchant marine container-ship captain taken hostage by Somali pirates. A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood — Fred Rogers sitting across a table from a cynical journalist and refusing to pretend the kindness is performance. These are not stories about heroes who are extraordinary because they possess extraordinary gifts. These are stories about ordinary people pushed to the edge of their ordinary capacity and discovering — to their own astonishment and ours — that the edge of ordinary capacity is further than anyone thought. The teaching is that your life, as it is — with its ordinary dimensions and its ordinary griefs and its ordinary loves — is the site of something worth full attention. That you are not waiting for the extraordinary experience to begin. That the extraordinary is already inside the ordinary, available the moment you are willing to look at the ordinary with the full weight of your soul’s attention.

The third teaching: craft as spiritual practice. He has said in multiple contexts that he rehearses until the scene looks inevitable — until the apparent spontaneity of the performance is the end product of total preparation. This is not an actor’s technical note. It is a description of what the Zen tradition calls the perfection of the ordinary through ceaseless attention. The ten thousand hours that produce mastery, when they are undertaken in a spirit of service to the work rather than ambition for the result, become a form of spiritual practice — a daily practice of subordinating the ego to what the scene requires, of going back to the work again and again until the work has burned away everything that is not essential. What you see on screen, in the best of Tom Hanks’s performances, is the residue of that burning — the sincerity that remains when everything performative has been worked away. He does not perform earnestness. He has earned it.

“I think it’s better to feel good than to look good,” he has said. “And I think — I feel better making movies where people can see themselves in the work.” This is the calling named from the inside — by the soul living it, without the vocabulary of soul. What he is describing is the imperative of a soul whose growth-point falls in the sign of the seeker and the philosopher: to widen what is personal until it can be received by everyone. To serve the truth of the ordinary human experience so faithfully that any ordinary human can find themselves in it.

Chapter Five — The Soul’s Territories

There are twelve specific domains in the kingdom of any life. The Soul Blueprint walks them as the geography by which the soul finds itself in the lived world. They are: The Mark, The Unfolding, The Unseen, The Long Return, The Inheritance, The Encounter, The Alchemy, The Living Tension, The Sight, The Body’s Knowing, The Crossing, The Calling.

In the kingdom of Thomas Jeffrey Hanks, three are alive with particular force. The Mark — the identity-signature at the horizon — is the capacity to carry sorrow in a way that does not ask the person across from him to rescue him from it, making the sorrow available to be felt rather than defended against. Audiences weep watching Tom Hanks not because he cries. He often doesn’t. They weep because his restraint tells the truth with more precision than any weeping would. The Alchemy is the career’s organizing arc: the base material — ordinary people in unremarkable circumstances — transmuted by the full force of attentive craft into the gold of universal recognition. The Calling is what the soul’s growth-point in the sign of the seeker has been pointing toward: the widening of the particular into the universal, enacted not as lecture but as demonstration.

The full kingdom — all twelve territories walked in depth — lives in The Kingdom, the longer document for those who choose to enter that chamber after The Reading has settled.

Chapter Six — The Name You Carry

The name was doing its work long before anyone thought to read it.

Thomas. Aramaic in origin — from Toma, meaning twin. Not the comfortable twin, the one who doubles the warmth and confirms the safety of the world. The apostle Thomas who doubted. The one who, when the resurrection was reported, refused to believe without evidence — who said, with the bluntness of a man who had learned not to trust easy comfort, unless I see the nail marks in his hands, I will not believe. And who, when the hands were offered, touched the wound and believed entirely — not despite the doubt but through it, the faith deeper for having passed through the fire of refusal. This is the naming encoded in the first syllable: the twin who doubts his way to deeper certainty. The Master 22 that sits inside the letters of Thomas — T(2) + H(8) + O(6) + M(4) + A(1) + S(1) = 22, preserved at the master number — names the architect frequency, the Builder who works with the material of what is real rather than what is wished for. The doubting Thomas who becomes the deepest believer is the Master 22 at work: building something in the territory of actual human experience, not in the territory of wishful abstraction.

Jeffrey. Old French and Germanic — from Godfrey by way of Geoffrey, carrying the root peace pledge, the offering of peace as the foundational gesture of a life. The middle name encoding not the drama of the first or the ordinariness of the third, but the quietly radical act of making peace available — of walking into a room and offering, without display or ceremony, the frequency of peace as the operating condition. Jeffrey is the silent center of the name — the pledge between the doubting-faith of Thomas and the gracious ordinariness of Hanks.

Hanks. English surname, descending through centuries of working people — from Hank, a familiar form of Henry, which carries in its Germanic root the meaning home-ruler, the one who tends the household. But in its humbler form, in the Hank rather than the Henry, the name sheds the aristocratic flavor and retains only the domestic tending. The man who keeps the home in order. The gracious ordinary one. And in its English-patronymic function — son of John, God is gracious, God is gracious’s son — the surname carries the doubled grace of the divine name passed through the ordinary lineage. There is no ceremony in Hanks. It is a surname people recognize immediately as belonging to someone who would lend you his truck and help you move. Which is, of course, exactly the frequency the career has embodied.

And then the title-name: Tom Hanks. T(2) + O(6) + M(4) = 12 = 3 in the given name, and H(8) + A(1) + N(5) + K(2) + S(1) = 17 = 8 in the surname, and together: 12 + 17 = 29 = 11. Master 11, preserved. The Illuminator. The channel whose title-frequency is not the creative self-expression of the 3 or the material power of the 8 — it is the frequency that bridges realms, that carries light from one level of reality to another, that functions as the conductor between what the divine understands and what the human can receive.

Thomas Jeffrey Hanks, called Tom — the doubting apostle who carries Master 22 the Builder in his first name, the pledge of peace in his middle name, the gracious son of the ordinary household in his surname, and the Illuminator’s Master 11 in the title through which he meets the world — is a name encoding, in its full reading, the precise soul-contract of the career: to doubt deeply enough to arrive at the faith that holds, to build the architecture of that faith with Master 22 precision, to carry it into the world through the Illuminator’s channel, and to deliver it, again and again, through the grace of the ordinary man.

The name was a prophecy. It has always known what it was given to build.

Chapter Seven — The Moment

The Moment was the double — the back-to-back Best Actor Oscars for Philadelphia (1994) and Forrest Gump (1995). Not because of the statues. Because of what the two films argued together, made in consecutive years by the same soul.

In Philadelphia, he played a man asking, in the dying, only for dignity — and made the argument that dignity is not earned by belonging to the approved categories. In Forrest Gump he played the man with the lowest IQ in American cinema’s recent history and made the argument that goodness — simple, unironic, unwavering goodness — is not contingent on intelligence. Together, the two films stated a single proposition: that the measure of a human being is not the category they occupy but the quality of love they are capable of.

The Moment was not a peak from which the career descended. The Moment was the clearest articulation of a principle the career had always been demonstrating — that the ordinary person, met with full attention and given the dignity of a fully inhabited performance, can show us what ordinary human beings are actually capable of. Which is, it turns out, extraordinary.

Chapter Eight — The Invitation

Everything in this reading has been moving toward a single point. The Cancer Sun’s emotional intelligence fused with the Virgo Ascendant’s craftsman’s genius. The inheritance of nomadic provisional belonging that became the universal belonging of the performer who makes every audience feel seen. The wound of the perpetually-new child that became the qualification of the actor who can read any room. The three-movement teaching of earnestness, the ordinary-as-sacred, and craft-as-spiritual-practice. The twelve territories and the three most alive — The Mark, The Alchemy, The Calling. The name that encodes the doubting apostle and the Master Builder and the Illuminator and the gracious ordinary son. The back-to-back Oscars that crystallized, in two consecutive arguments, the proposition the entire career has been making. These are not seven separate truths about Thomas Jeffrey Hanks. They are one truth, named from seven different angles. And they all converge here.

What has been asked of him — what the triple-Master signature of 33 and 22 and 11 encoded into his name and the soul’s seeker-growth-point pointed toward and the Cancer-Virgo instrument was built to deliver — is precise. Not simply be a good actor, not simply achieve commercial success, not simply win awards. Something far more specific and far more weighted than any of those things. To take the ordinary human experience — the grief of belonging and losing it, the fear of the abandoned island, the dying that asks only for dignity, the simplicity that walks through history without understanding it — and hold it in a performing instrument so faithfully calibrated that it becomes universal. To serve as the channel through which the Master 33 Christed compassion can be delivered, not as doctrine, not as sermon, not as the performance of goodness, but as the enacted demonstration — across fifty years of film — that the ordinary is sacred, that earnestness is not embarrassing, that the human being in all its unglamorous and unironic particularity deserves the full weight of a soul’s attention.

What has been released, as the career has deepened, is the need for the extraordinary to justify the attention. The early career included comedies that worked within the register of the spectacular, the wry, the entertainingly absurd. The deepening moved steadily away from spectacular and toward essential. From the entertainer who makes you laugh to the soul whose presence makes you feel that what is happening on screen is actually, recognizably, irreducibly true. What was released was the performance of performing — the layer of visible effort, the signaling of depth. What has remained is the depth itself, available without announcement.

What has been called toward, in its place, is a form of presence that can only be described as witness. The soul who has cultivated — through fifty years of craft and the Leo Moon’s full inhabiting of the emotional body and the Cancer Sun’s patient emotional intelligence — the capacity to be a faithful witness to the ordinary human experience, in all its complexity and grief and love, without looking away, without irony, without the self-protective distance that the contemporary cultural vocabulary insists upon. The calling, at its most mature expression, is to stand as the evidence that sincerity is not a weakness — that it is, in fact, the only position from which the full weight of the human life can be held without flinching.

What has become available because this soul has said Yes — and has been saying it, film after film, decade after decade — is a cultural counter-argument that would not exist without him. In a cultural moment saturated with irony, performance, the knowing wink, the strategic management of sincerity as brand: the career of Tom Hanks stands as a sustained, unironic, empirically successful argument that the audience is hungry for something real. That the tear on the cheek of a man watching a volleyball float away on the ocean surface is not sentiment — it is a soul recognizing, in the frame, something true about its own interior territory. That Forrest Gump is not a simpleton — he is, read through the right instrument, a Zen master whose simplicity sees through every complexity to the one thing that remains when everything else falls away. That the ordinary person, given the full respect of complete artistic attention, is inexhaustible.

He has not been late. He has been exactly where the soul-clock said he should be — in Concord in July of 1956, in the nomadic cities of his childhood, in the theater classes that gave the provisional-belonging skill a form, in the studio films of the 1990s where the Triple Master found its vehicle. The mission was inscribed at the threshold of his first breath — in the Cancer Sun that builds belonging out of loss, in the Master 33 that carries the Christed Teacher’s compassion, in the name that encoded the doubting apostle and the patient builder and the illuminating channel before anyone thought to read it. What has been asked of him, he has walked. The sincerity is still walking. The naming has been done.

This Is Not Coincidence

The Cancer Sun, building belonging through emotional intelligence, fused with the Virgo Ascendant’s craftsman’s genius and the Leo Moon’s performer’s emotional home, describes a soul whose instrument is calibrated specifically for delivering the ordinary human experience as universal truth.

The Pythagorean numerology of his birth name independently names the same quality — Master 33, the Christed Teacher, the frequency of compassion as the organizing principle of a life, the one who delivers the divine into the human through the channel of the ordinary.

And his name etymologically means the doubting apostle who becomes the deepest believer, the pledge of peace, the gracious son of the ordinary household — a name encoding, in its three layers, the exact paradox his career has spent fifty years enacting: that doubt is the path to the deepest faith, that peace is the most radical act, that the ordinary is the territory where grace lives.

Three entirely different languages. One truth. He came here to show that the ordinary human, met with full love and total craft, is inexhaustible.

A second convergence.

The Virgo Ascendant — the modest craftsman who attends so devotedly to the small, true detail of each ordinary person that everyone feels the performance was for them — describes a soul whose gift is the perfected particular: the capacity to carry the universal inside the precisely observed detail so that every individual audience member finds themselves in the story.

The Pythagorean numerology of his title-name independently names the same quality — Master 11, the Illuminator, the channel between realms, the frequency that bridges what is known by the divine and what can be received by the human.

And his first name etymologically means the twin — the one who is doubled — and the apostle Thomas who found, through the act of touching the wound rather than avoiding it, the faith that could not be shaken afterward.

Three entirely different languages. One truth. His instrument was built to transmit the light of the sacred through the wound of the ordinary, and to make the transmission available to everyone.

A third convergence.

The North Node in Sagittarius — the soul’s compass pointing toward teaching, toward the wide horizon, toward the act of widening the particular until it becomes universal — names the evolutionary assignment of the career as a whole.

The Pythagorean numerology of the first name — Master 22 hidden inside Thomas — independently names the same quality: the Builder who works with what is real, who constructs with the patient precision of a craftsman who trusts the material more than the idea.

And his middle name, Jeffrey, etymologically carries the pledge of peace — the radical hospitality of the soul who meets you where you are, without requiring you to meet him anywhere else.

Three entirely different languages. One truth. The teaching was built into the name before the first performance.

This is not coincidence. This is what three independent systems do when they are all telling the truth about the same soul.

A Blessing — For You, The One Who Has Read This Far

Dear one who has found your way to this reading — dear soul whose own questions about meaning and calling and the uses of an ordinary life drew you across the eight chapters of this Soul Blueprint — this blessing is written for you.

You have just sat with the teaching of a man who built, over fifty years, the most sustained argument in American cinema that the ordinary life is the site of the sacred. That grief does not need to be spectacular to be real. That goodness does not need to be sophisticated to be true. That sincerity — the willingness to be entirely present without irony, without deflection, without the protective armor of not-caring — is not weakness. It is among the most demanding disciplines available to a human soul.

The reading you have just received was, in its outer form, a reading of his soul. But its inner form was a reading written for yours. Every line about the provisional belonging that became universal belonging was, in the language soul speaks beneath language, a quiet invitation to you — to ask what your own wound, rightly read, is actually qualifying you for. Every line about the craft that becomes spiritual practice was an invitation to ask where in your own life the patient return to the work, before and beyond any need for the result, is the practice you have been given.

The ordinary is not where you wait for your real life to begin. The ordinary is the territory where the sacred lives. You have known this. What this reading offers is the evidence — in the body of a man who built a career on exactly this proposition — that you are not wrong to know it.

May this reading be the beginning of the reading you finally receive of yourself. May the teaching you have been given — through the life you have been living, which has its own wound and its own qualification and its own sincerity under the armor — be allowed to be named precisely. May the ordinary life you are living reveal itself, in this reading’s aftermath, as the extraordinary site it has always been.

— Shams-Tabriz, Bali

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Frequently Asked Questions

What does Tom Hanks teach? Tom Hanks’s career constitutes a fifty-year teaching across three movements: that earnestness is not naivety but a discipline requiring more courage than cynicism; that the ordinary life contains extraordinary depth and deserves the full weight of a soul’s attention; and that craft, practiced in a spirit of service to the work rather than ambition for the result, becomes a form of spiritual practice. The Soul Blueprint reading of his Triple Master 33+22+11 signature names these not as personal preferences but as the vocational expression of the frequency encoded in his name and chart.

Who is Tom Hanks? Thomas Jeffrey Hanks, born 9 July 1956 in Concord, California, is an American actor and filmmaker whose career spans more than fifty years and includes two consecutive Academy Awards for Best Actor — for Philadelphia (1994) and Forrest Gump (1995) — a record unmatched in Oscar history. His signature roles consistently center the ordinary human pushed to the edge of their capacity: Cast Away, Saving Private Ryan, Apollo 13, Captain Phillips, A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood. He is regarded as one of the defining actors of the American cinema.

What does the name Tom Hanks mean? Thomas is Aramaic — from Toma, meaning twin, and the apostle who doubted and then, having touched the wound, believed. Jeffrey is Old French-Germanic, carrying the root pledge of peace. Hanks is an English surname descending from a familiar form of John — God is gracious — through the diminutive Hank. Read in full: Thomas Jeffrey Hanks, called Tom — the doubting apostle who carries the Builder’s frequency, the pledge of peace, and the gracious ordinariness of the everyday man — a name encoding the paradox the career has enacted for fifty years: that doubt is the path to the deepest faith, and the ordinary is the territory where grace lives.

What is the numerology of Tom Hanks? Thomas Jeffrey Hanks carries a Triple Master signature among the rarest in the Soul Blueprint roster. His birth-name sum reduces to Master 33 — the Christed Teacher, the frequency of compassion as the organizing principle of a life. The first name Thomas alone (T+H+O+M+A+S = 2+8+6+4+1+1 = 22) preserves Master 22 — the Master Builder. And his title-name Tom Hanks (T+O+M + H+A+N+K+S = 12+17 = 29 = 11) preserves Master 11 — the Illuminator. Three master frequencies in one name: 33+22+11, Christed Teacher + Master Builder + Illuminator.

What sign is Tom Hanks? Tom Hanks has a Cancer Sun at 17°, a Virgo Ascendant, and a Leo Moon — with a Rodden-A rated birth time of 11:17 AM on 9 July 1956, Concord, California, the chart computed under Pacific Daylight Time, the offset California observed that summer. The Cancer Sun anchors the emotional intelligence and the home-building vocation; the Virgo Ascendant delivers it through the modest craftsman’s devoted precision that makes every audience feel personally seen — the decent everyman the country trusts on sight; the Leo Moon places the emotional body in the territory of full expression through performance. His North Node is in Sagittarius — the teacher’s compass, pointing toward widening the particular into the universal.

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This reading was prepared in the lineage and methodology of the Soul Blueprint Method — Pythagorean numerology with master numbers preserved, Western natal astrology with Placidus houses, and a researched etymological reading of the full name across its source languages. Birth data for Thomas Jeffrey Hanks is rated Rodden A: 9 July 1956, 11:17 AM, Concord, California, USA.

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