Bill Trott
By Bill Trott
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Fast Forward Klan Killer Of ‘Mississippi Burning’ Civil Rights Martyrs Dies In Prison
Edgar Ray Killen, the preacher and Ku Klux Klansman convicted and sent to prison more than 40 years after he plotted the 1964 slayings of three civil rights activists in the “Mississippi Burning” case, died on Thursday night at the age of 92, Mississippi correction officials said. Killen, who would have turned 93 on Jan….
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Fast Forward Zsa Zsa Gabor, Hollywood Star With Jewish Roots and 9 Hubbies, Dies at 99
Actress Zsa Zsa Gabor, who parlayed beauty, diamond-studded glamour and nine marriages into a long celebrity career, died on Sunday, Variety and other media outlets reported, She was 99. Ed Lozzi, a publicist for Gabor, told Variety that the Hungarian-born actress, who would have turned 100 in February, passed away at her home on Sunday…
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News Elie Wiesel, Holocaust Survivor and Nobel Laureate, Dies at 87
Activist and writer Elie Wiesel, the World War Two death camp survivor who won a Nobel Peace Prize for becoming the life-long voice of millions of Holocaust victims, has died, Israel’s Holocaust memorial Yad Vashem said on Saturday. Wiesel, a philosopher, speaker, playwright and professor who also campaigned for the tyrannized and forgotten around the…
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Fast Forward Morley Safer, Iconic ‘60 Minutes’ Journalist, Dies at 84
Television journalist Morley Safer, the son of Jewish immigrants who made his reputation as a Vietnam War correspondent for CBS and then became a mainstay on the network’s “60 Minutes” show for 46 years, has died at age 84, a few days after his retirement, the network announced on Thursday. He retired from CBS last…
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Fast Forward Mike Nichols, Oscar-Winning ‘Graduate’ Director, Dies at 83
(Reuters) — Mike Nichols, a nine-time Tony Award winner on Broadway and the Oscar-winning director of films such as “Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf,” “The Graduate” and “Carnal Knowledge,” died on Wednesday at age 83, ABC News said. The prolific director passed away at his home of cardiac arrest, his spokeswoman said. A private service…
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Fast Forward Eli Wallach, Versatile Hollywood Star, Dies at 98
(Reuters) — Eli Wallach, an early practitioner of method acting who made a lasting impression as the scuzzy bandit Tuco in “The Good, the Bad and the Ugly”, died on Tuesday at the age of 98, the New York Times reported. Wallach appeared on the big screen well into his 90s in Roman Polanski’s “The…
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