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King was the nephew of Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. and a senior paster at St. James Baptist Chruch in Greensboro. He was a board member for both the King Center and the Southern Christian Leadership Conference. King was the youngest son of Rev. Martin Luther King Jr.’s only brother, A.D. King Sr.
Lem was a Norwegian environmental activist, author and spokesperson for The Future In Our Hands, and anti-consumerism activist. Some of Lem’s work includes… - Signaler – compilation - Utenfor bymuren – short stories - Motlys – novel - Grenseovergang – novel - Bjørneboes menneskesyn i Frihetens øyeblikk – thesis - Den tause krigen - Det lille livet
Bellows was the famed editor of L.A. Herald Examiner and well known for rescuing underdog big-city newspapers from L.A. to New York. During his prestigious career Bellows worked at the New York Herald Tribume, Los Angeles Times, Washington Star, Los Angeles Herald Examiner, Entertainment Tonight, and ABC News: World News Tonight… to name a few. Bellows also [...]
Harvey was a radio broadcaster for the ABC Radio Networks. He is probably best known for his News and Comment broadcasts, and his The Rest of the Story segments. His voice was unmistakable, with his dramatic pauses and undeniable quirks. A large part of Harvey’s success came from being able to blend monologue with reading a [...]
Piquepaille was the Emerging Technologies blogger with ZDNet. Below is a quote from Larry Dignan on the Emerging Tech blog… “Roland was one of our most passionate bloggers and his ability to explain complex science well was something to behold. Roland spent most of his career in software, mainly for high performance computing and visualization companies, [...]
Jett, born on April 13, 1992, was the only son of John Travolta and Kelly Preston. Early in childhood Jett suffered from Kawasaki disease that caused seizures at random times.
Felt was an agent with the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), he is most famous for being the Watergate scandal whistleblower called “Deep Throat”. Felt (Deep Throat) was leaking information to Washington Post reporter Bob Woodward with critical leads to the story that eventually saw the resignation of President Richard Nixon in 1974. Deep Throat remained a [...]
Sunny von Bülow was a socialite, heiress, and philanthropist. Sadly, she is probably best remembered for her husband, Claus von Bülow, supposedly trying to murder her. On December 26, 1979 Sunny was found to be unresponsive and was rushed to the hospital where he slipped into a coma, but she was revived. After vast amounts of [...]
Parker was a supercentenarian, and the oldest living person in the world at 115 years, 220 days old. She obtained the title of oldest living person on August 13, 2007. Parker enjoyed poetry, and reading the daily newspaper. She loved receiving cards from well-wishers, and sent out autographs to anyone who asked for one. On her [...]
Barnes was a well respected writer and broadcaster, he also held the position of chief dance, drama and opera critic for the New York Post. Along with his role at the New York Times, Barnes also wrote a monthly column for Dance Magazine, “Attitudes”. Barnes authored numerous books over the years, all pertaining to theater and the [...]
Pressly was news anchor for KATV Channel 7 in Little Rock, Arkansas. She had worked at the station since May 2004. She also had a small part in the Oliver Stone movie W. where she played Ann Coulter.
King was the nephew of Academy Award winning actress Jennifer Hudson.
Donerson was the mother of Academy Award winning actress Jennifer Hudson.
Lynch was a former professional football player for the Washington Redskins and New York Giants. During his playing days with the Giants, Lynch made the Pro Bowl in 1963 and led the NFL in interceptions in 1961 and 1963. After his playing days were over, he found himself in the commentator’s booth from 1967 to 2008.
Messner was a Christian singer, evangelist, entrepreneur, author, talk show host, and television personality. She was the former wife of televangelist Jim Bakker (who is a convicted felon), and she co-hosted the PTL Club with him from 1976 to 1987. She is probably most remembered as wearing loads of makeup, especially mascara. She often wore oversized [...]
Putnam was a famed television news reporter and talk show host in Los Angeles, California. During his career he anchored at KTTV 11, KTLA 5, KCOP 13, and KHJ 9 (now known as KCAL 9). In addition to his salary, he was provided a Rolls Royce while at KTTV and KTLA. In 1975 he was replaced [...]
Bradley was a journalist, who is best known for his 26 years of award-winning work on the CBS News show 60 Minutes. During his career Bradley was the first black television correspondent to cover the White House, anchored his own news broadcast, “CBS Sunday Night with Ed Bradley”, and covered the fall of Saigon. He was the [...]
Ignatow was a resident of Louisville, Kentucky who is famous for murdering his fiancée, Brenda Sue Schaefer in 1988. What makes him famous is that he was initially acquitted of the murder charges… but later evidence proved his guilt, but under the legal principle of double jeopardy, he couldn’t be tried a second time for [...]
Leroy Sievers was a celebrated journalist who worked for NPR, CBS News, and ABC’s Nightline for which he was a producer. He won 12 Emmy awards as well as two Peabody Awards. In his later years, once he found out that he had cancer, he ran a blog and a podcast on the NPR website in [...]
Elzie Crisler Segar was a cartoonist whose claim to fame was being the creator of everybody’s favorite spinach-eating seaman Popeye the Sailor Man. Segar’s Popeye cartoon originally appeared in 1929 in the “Thimble Theatre” comic section of the New York Journal. Interestingly enough, Segar had been contributing cartoons to this publication for a decade prior to Popeye’s [...]
Mervyn Edward “Merv” Griffin, Jr. is probably best known for his talk show, The Merv Griffin Show that ran for 21 years winning 11 Emmy awards. Griffin was also a singer in his younger days, and even appeared on broadway and in movies. He had his share of business ventures as well investing in real estate, hotels, [...]
William Maxwell Gaines spent his early adult life in the Army as World War II started. He then became the publisher and co-editor of EC Comics which started out adapting Bible Stories then went on to publish titles like Tales from the Crypt, Weird Science, the Vault of Horror (and other horror titles - sometimes adapting [...]
Allen was the second tallest living woman according to Guinness World Records at 7’ 7 ¼ inches. Her abnormal stature was a result of a tumor in her pituitary gland that caused the uncontrollable release of the growth hormone. At the age of 22 she underwent surgery to stop the excessive growing. Without the surgery she [...]
Eugene “Gene” Kal Siskel was a movie critic famous as half of the duo Siskel and Ebert. They began their career together on a Chicago PBS station and went through various incarnations of their show on various networks. He and Roger Ebert are famous for the thumbs up/down movie scoring system.
JonBenét Ramsey was a child beauty pageant contestant made famous by her murder and excessive media coverage. Ramsey held a number of beauty pageant titles such as America’s Royal Miss, Colorado State All-Star Kids Cover Girl, Little Miss Charlevoix Michigan, Little Miss Merry Christmas, Little Miss Sunburst, and National Tiny Miss Beauty.
Harry Christopher “Skip” Caray, Jr. was the son of famed Cubby broadcaster Harry Caray, and was also a broadcaster himself, for the Atlanta Braves Major League Baseball Team. Skip called Braves games from 1976 until his passing, including the 1995 World Series between the Braves and the Cleveland Indians.
Marshall Herff Applewhite Jr. was a former college teacher turned cult leader and self proclaimed reincarnation of Jesus Christ. In his earlier days Applewhite wrote about outer space, aliens, and other galaxies. He would then share his insane ramblings during his lectures. According to his former students, Applewhite believed that life existed in other galaxies. Applewhite started [...]
Tim Russert was best known as the longest-serving moderator of the NBC News program “Meet the Press”. He also appeared frequently on the Today Show and Hardball, and had his own show on CNBC/MSNBC. His work primarily focused on politics, but he was also an avid fan of the Yankees and the Buffalo Bills. In 2008, Time [...]
Christine Chubbuck was a televsion news anchor in Sarasota, Florida who had battled depression for years before ultimately taking her own life on her own program. Before the notorious on-air suicide, she was able to bring some good to the world. She volunteered at Sarasota Memorial Hospital, giving puppet shows to developmentally disabled children.
Les Crane was a grammy-winning radio announcer and television talk show host from the San Francisco area. Popular radio personality Casey Kasem credits Crane and station owner John Barrett for originally coming up with the Top 40 that became Kasem’s staple. Crane’s talk show was ABC’s late night answer to Johnny Carson in the 60s. His [...]