In Memory of 2023

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25 minutes ago, Barnstorm said:

Here’s an epic performance of Freebird featuring Gary Rossington of Lynyrd Skynyrd. 

 

Rossington is at his ultimate best here. 
 

Rolling Stones were to follow after Skynyrd that night and no bands were allowed to use the stage apron which extended into the crowd other than the Stones. The apron was designed to mimic the Stones logo of lips and tongue and was put in the concert contract as “ private”.

 

Ronnie Van said screw that and led his guitarists to all move well onto the apron during the Freebird guitar solos. 

 

 

 

Needless to say , Skynyrd blew the Stones out of the park that day and  the Stones were  always bitter about this southern USA band showing them up on their own turf. 

 

Thank you Gary Rossington for all the great music and memories. 

Rest in Peace.

 

If the Stones are concerned about being blown off the stage, (or out of the park) they should probably make sure they;re the only act on the bill....

[DonLever]

Robert Blake, embattled actor of ‘In Cold Blood’ and ‘Lost Highway’ fame, dead at 89 (msn.com)

 

Robert Blake, 

noted actor and Emmy-winner who starred in crime series “Baretta,” has died, according to his daughter, Delinah Blake Hurwitz. He was 89.

Delinah Blake Hurwitz told CNN in an email that her father died “peacefully” on Thursday “surrounded by family.”

Robert Blake died in Los Angeles from heart disease, according to his niece Noreen Austin, who released an obituary notice via a representative.

Over the course of more than 60 years working as a professional actor, Robert Blake amassed a number of memorable credits, including 1967’s “In Cold Blood” and David Lynch’s 1997 film “Lost Highway,” the actor’s final screen credit.

In 2001, Robert Blake’s second wife Bonny Lee Bakley was found murdered in the San Fernando Valley. In 2005, the actor was acquitted of murder charges relating to the case. He later lost a civil suit brought forth by Bakley’s children.

 

A vast career

Robert Blake, born in Nutley, New Jersey on September 18, 1933, went by his birth name of Michael Gubitosi until 1942. He got his start in Hollywood as a child actor in the “Our Gang” movie shorts in 1939 as Mickey, one of the Little Rascals, continuing under the name of “Bobby Blake” in various “Our Gang” shorts until the early ’40s.

 

 

 

 

Robert Blake in the 1967 flm 'In Cold Blood,' directed by Richard Brooks. - Columbia Pictures/Moviepix/Getty Images

He starred in his first film in 1942 as Daniel ‘Mokey’ Delano in “Mokey,” about a troubled young boy navigating life at home with his father and stepmother. In 1948, he appeared in “Treasure of the Sierra Madre,” which costarred the legendary Humphrey Bogart.

In 1967, Robert Blake starred as Perry in the film “In Cold Blood,” based on Truman Capote’s 1965 novel of the same name, about the murder of a family in Holcomb, Kansas.

Robert Blake later went on to star in the 1970s television crime series “Baretta.” He won an Emmy Award for his role on the show, in which he played the title character, a New York City undercover detective. The series aired for four seasons on ABC from 1975-1978.

Robert Blake in a 1976 episode of 'Baretta.' - ABC Photo Archives/Getty Images

His other notable credits include the 1960s series “Rawhide,” the 1981 TV movie “Of Mice and Men” and 1995’s “Money Train” with Woody Harrelson and Jennifer Lopez.

 

Criminal trial

On May 4, 2001, Robert Blake’s wife, Bonny Lee Bakley, was found shot in the head in his car after eating at Vitello’s, a neighborhood restaurant in Studio City. Robert Blake said at the time that the murder occurred while he had briefly returned to the restaurant.

Robert Blake was arrested in April 2002 on charges of first degree murder with special circumstances and two counts of solicitation of murder. He pleaded not guilty at his arraignment.

That same year, the administrators of Bakley’s estate filed a civil wrongful death suit against Robert Blake, seeking unspecified damages on behalf of Bakley’s four children.

 

Robert Blake, embattled actor of ‘In Cold Blood’ and ‘Lost Highway’ fame, dead at 89© Provided by CNN

Robert Blake in a 1976 episode of 'Baretta.' - ABC Photo Archives/Getty Images

His other notable credits include the 1960s series “Rawhide,” the 1981 TV movie “Of Mice and Men” and 1995’s “Money Train” with Woody Harrelson and Jennifer Lopez.

Robert Blake, embattled actor of ‘In Cold Blood’ and ‘Lost Highway’ fame, dead at 89© Provided by CNN

Robert Blake in a Los Angeles court on September 17, 2004. - Mike FANOUS/Gamma-Rapho/Getty Images

 

In March of 2005, Robert Blake was acquitted of the murder of Bakley in the criminal proceedings, but was found liable in the wrongful death civil suit brought by Bakley’s children. The actor was ordered to pay $30 million in damages to her family. The amount of damages awarded to Bakley’s children was later reduced to $15 million after Robert Blake’s lawyers appealed the civil suit, but the Los Angeles court upheld the wrongful death verdict.

 

In 2011, Robert Blake published a memoir titled “Tales of a Rascal: What I Did for Love.” He appeared on CNN in an interview with Piers Morgan in 2012 to promote the book and accused Morgan of calling him a “liar” when questioned about Bakley’s murder.

He maintained his innocence in connection to the murder of his wife.

Gerry Schwartzbach, who represented Robert Blake during the trial, told CNN in a statement that the actor “was a complicated man.”

“He and I spent parts of virtually every day together over the year I lived in LA working on his case. We had a strong bond,” the attorney said. “I am saddened by his passing, but glad that he is no longer suffering.”

According to his family’s statement, in recent years, Robert Blake lived quietly in the Los Angeles area. In lieu of flowers, his family requests that donations be made to City of Hope.

Blake is survived by his three children Rose Bakley, Delinah Blake Hurwitz and Noah Blake.

Edited March 12, 2023 by DonLever

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https://www.bbc.com/sport/athletics/64945985

 

Dick Fosbury: The athlete who developed the 'Fosbury Flop' dies aged 76

 

The "Fosbury Flop" has been widely used in the high jump since Dick Fosbury used it

[thedestroyerofworlds]

Remember watching the original Iron Chef on Food Network.   

‘Iron Chef’ Kenichi Chen Dies at Age 67

 

https://japannews.yomiuri.co.jp/society/obituaries/20230314-97127/

 

Yomiuri Shimbun file photo
Kenichi Chen in October 2013

 

Chef Kenichi Chen, famous for his appearances on the popular TV series “Ryouri no Tetsujin” (Iron Chef), died in a Tokyo hospital on Saturday due to interstitial pneumonia. He was 67.

Chen was known as “Chyuka no Tetsujin,” or the iron man of Chinese cuisine.

Born in Tokyo in 1956, Chen’s real name was Kenichi Azuma. His father was a chef from China who introduced Sichuan cuisine throughout Japan.

Chen was chairman of the Szechwan Restaurant group and also chaired The Japan Association of Chinese Cuisine from 2011.

Edited March 17, 2023 by thedestroyerofworlds

[thedestroyerofworlds]

Also in the John Wick movies, with Chapter 4 out soon

 

 

https://www.tmz.com/2023/03/17/the-wire-star-lance-reddick-dead-dies/?adid=social-twa

 

'THE WIRE' STAR LANCE REDDICK DEAD AT 60

LAU

 

NCH 

Edited March 17, 2023 by thedestroyerofworlds

[thedestroyerofworlds]

https://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/newsroom/news/gordon-moore-obituary.html

Gordon Moore, Intel Co-Founder, Dies at 94

Moore, who set the course for the future of the semiconductor industry, devoted his later years to philanthropy.

 

SANTA CLARA, Calif., March 24, 2023 – Intel and the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation announced today that company co-founder Gordon Moore has passed away at the age of 94.   

The foundation reported he died peacefully on Friday, March 24, 2023, surrounded by family at his home in Hawaii. 

Moore and his longtime colleague Robert Noyce founded Intel in July 1968. Moore initially served as executive vice president until 1975, when he became president. In 1979, Moore was named chairman of the board and chief executive officer, posts he held until 1987, when he gave up the CEO position and continued as chairman. In 1997, Moore became chairman emeritus, stepping down in 2006. 

More: Gordon Moore: He Stood Alone Among Tech Titans (Tribute) | Gordon Moore at Intel (Press Kit)

 

 

 

During his lifetime, Moore also dedicated his focus and energy to philanthropy, particularly environmental conservation, science and patient care improvements. Along with his wife of 72 years, he established the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation, which has donated more than $5.1 billion to charitable causes since its founding in 2000.   

“Those of us who have met and worked with Gordon will forever be inspired by his wisdom, humility and generosity,” reflected foundation president Harvey Fineberg. “Though he never aspired to be a household name, Gordon’s vision and his life’s work enabled the phenomenal innovation and technological developments that shape our everyday lives. Yet those historic achievements are only part of his legacy. His and Betty’s generosity as philanthropists will shape the world for generations to come.”  

Pat Gelsinger, Intel CEO, said, “Gordon Moore defined the technology industry through his insight and vision. He was instrumental in revealing the power of transistors, and inspired technologists and entrepreneurs across the decades. We at Intel remain inspired by Moore’s Law and intend to pursue it until the periodic table is exhausted. Gordon’s vision lives on as our true north as we use the power of technology to improve the lives of every person on Earth. My career and much of my life took shape within the possibilities fueled by Gordon’s leadership at the helm of Intel, and I am humbled by the honor and responsibility to carry his legacy forward.” 

Frank D. Yeary, chair of Intel’s board of directors, said, “Gordon was a brilliant scientist and one of America’s leading entrepreneurs and business leaders. It is impossible to imagine the world we live in today, with computing so essential to our lives, without the contributions of Gordon Moore. He will always be an inspiration to our Intel family and his thinking at the core of our innovation culture.” 

Andy Bryant, former chairman of Intel’s board of directors, said, “I will remember Gordon as a brilliant scientist, a straight-talker and an astute businessperson who sought to make the world better and always do the right thing. It was a privilege to know him, and I am grateful that his legacy lives on in the culture of the company he helped to create.” 

Prior to establishing Intel, Moore and Noyce participated in the founding of Fairchild Semiconductor, where they played central roles in the first commercial production of diffused silicon transistors and later the world’s first commercially viable integrated circuits. The two had previously worked together under William Shockley, the co-inventor of the transistor and founder of Shockley Semiconductor, which was the first semiconductor company established in what would become Silicon Valley. Upon striking out on their own, Moore and Noyce hired future Intel CEO Andy Grove as the third employee, and the three of them built Intel into one of the world’s great companies. Together they became known as the “Intel Trinity,” and their legacy continues today. 

In addition to Moore’s seminal role in founding two of the world’s pioneering technology companies, he famously forecast in 1965 that the number of transistors on an integrated circuit would double every year – a prediction that came to be known as Moore’s Law. 

After retiring from Intel in 2006, Moore divided his time between California and Hawaii, serving as chairman of the board for the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation until transitioning to chairman emeritus in 2018. Moore also served as a member of the board of directors of Conservation International and Gilead Sciences, Inc. He was a member of the National Academy of Engineering, a Fellow of the Royal Society of Engineers, and a Fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers. He served as chairman of the board of trustees of the California Institute of Technology from 1995 until the beginning of 2001, and continued as a Life Trustee. 

In 1950, Moore married Betty Irene Whitaker, who survives him. Moore is also survived by sons Kenneth and Steven and four grandchildren. 

 

 

[nucklehead]

Legendary Vancouver DJ Red Robinson dead at 86 | CTV News

Legendary Vancouver disc jockey Red Robinson has died, his family announced Saturday.

"With deep sadness and broken hearts, we bring the news that our beloved dad, Red Robinson, passed this morning at 8:15 a.m. after a brief illness," wrote Kellie and Sherrie Robinson in a message on Facebook. 

Robinson first made a name for himself in the 1950s, playing rock 'n' roll music before it hit the mainstream.

In 1957, he emceed Elvis Presley's only concert in Vancouver. Seven years later, he did the same when The Beatles came to town.

[johngould21]

10 hours ago, nucklehead said:

Legendary Vancouver DJ Red Robinson dead at 86 | CTV News

Legendary Vancouver disc jockey Red Robinson has died, his family announced Saturday.

"With deep sadness and broken hearts, we bring the news that our beloved dad, Red Robinson, passed this morning at 8:15 a.m. after a brief illness," wrote Kellie and Sherrie Robinson in a message on Facebook. 

Robinson first made a name for himself in the 1950s, playing rock 'n' roll music before it hit the mainstream.

In 1957, he emceed Elvis Presley's only concert in Vancouver. Seven years later, he did the same when The Beatles came to town.

I grew up listening to disc jockeys in most markets my old tube radio could pick up. Vancouver had many and Red was probably the best at one time. I'm trying to remember how many stations he worked for in Vancouver. CFUN, CKLG, 'NW, CJOR, CKWX, I'm sure there are more?

 

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https://www.polygon.com/23669496/settlers-of-catan-creator-klaus-teuber-dead-70-obituary

Catan creator, board game pioneer Klaus Teuber dead at 70

His work will live on in the collections of millions of fans

Klaus Teuber at Essen Spiel in 2015 during a world-record attempt with more than 1,000 fans.  Photo: Roland Weihrauch and picture alliance/Getty Images

[Playoff Beered]

Al Jaffee, Trailblazing ‘Mad’ Magazine Cartoonist, Dies at 102

https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/business/business-news/al-jaffe-dead-mad-magazine-1235370593/amp/

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8 hours ago, Playoff Beered said:

Al Jaffee, Trailblazing ‘Mad’ Magazine Cartoonist, Dies at 102

https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/business/business-news/al-jaffe-dead-mad-magazine-1235370593/amp/

It's funny....I grew up with Mad Magazine, but the only things I remember are Alfred E Neuman and Spy vs Spy.....

[Notwhereitsat]

On 3/6/2023 at 5:33 PM, Barnstorm said:

Here’s an epic performance of Freebird featuring Gary Rossington of Lynyrd Skynyrd. 

 

Rossington is at his ultimate best here. 
 

Rolling Stones were to follow after Skynyrd that night and no bands were allowed to use the stage apron which extended into the crowd other than the Stones. The apron was designed to mimic the Stones logo of lips and tongue and was put in the concert contract as “ private”.

 

Ronnie Van said screw that and led his guitarists to all move well onto the apron during the Freebird guitar solos. 

 

 

 

Needless to say , Skynyrd blew the Stones out of the park that day and  the Stones were  always bitter about this southern USA band showing them up on their own turf. 

 

Thank you Gary Rossington for all the great music and memories. 

Rest in Peace.

 

Hey I'm gonna one up you! I think most people like this one better. It actually has me hooked on watching freebird oakland "reaction" videos. Prolly watched a hundred of them lol.  

 

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Gotta say, this one stings more than most....

 

https://toronto.citynews.ca/2023/04/13/samson-grizzly-bear-euthanized-at-toronto-zoo/

 

 

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https://variety.com/2023/music/news/harry-belafonte-dead-dies-singer-1235593910/

Harry Belafonte, Calypso King Who Worked for African American Rights, Dies at 96

 

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Jerry Springer, politician-turned-TV ringmaster, dies at 79

CINCINNATI (AP) — Jerry Springer, the onetime mayor and news anchor whose namesake TV show featured a three-ring circus of dysfunctional guests willing to bare all — sometimes literally — as they brawled and hurled obscenities before a raucous audience, died Thursday at 79.

 

At its peak, “The Jerry Springer Show” was a ratings powerhouse and a U.S. cultural pariah, synonymous with lurid drama. Known for chair-throwing and bleep-filled arguments, the daytime talk show was a favorite American guilty pleasure over its 27-year run, at one point topping Oprah Winfrey’s show.

 

Springer called it “escapist entertainment,” while others saw the show as contributing to a dumbing-down decline in American social values.

 

“Jerry’s ability to connect with people was at the heart of his success in everything he tried whether that was politics, broadcasting or just joking with people on the street who wanted a photo or a word,” said Jene Galvin, a family spokesperson and friend of Springer's since 1970, in a statement. “He’s irreplaceable and his loss hurts immensely, but memories of his intellect, heart and humor will live on.”

 

Springer died peacefully at home in suburban Chicago after a brief illness, the statement said

 

On his Twitter profile, Springer jokingly declared himself as “Talk show host, ringmaster of civilization’s end.” He also often had told people, tongue in cheek, that his wish for them was “may you never be on my show.”

 

After more than 4,000 episodes, the show ended in 2018, never straying from its core salaciousness: Some of its last episodes had such titles as “Stripper Sex Turned Me Straight,” “Stop Pimpin’ My Twin Sister,” and “Hooking Up With My Therapist.”

 

In a “Too Hot For TV” video released as his daily show neared 7 million viewers in the late 1990s, Springer offered a defense against disgust.

 

“Look, television does not and must not create values, it’s merely a picture of all that’s out there — the good, the bad, the ugly,” Springer said, adding: “Believe this: The politicians and companies that seek to control what each of us may watch are a far greater danger to America and our treasured freedom than any of our guests ever were or could be.”

 

He also contended that the people on his show volunteered to be subjected to whatever ridicule or humiliation awaited them.

 

Gerald Norman Springer was born Feb. 13, 1944, in a London underground railway station being used as a bomb shelter. His parents, Richard and Margot, were German Jews who fled to England during the Holocaust, in which other relatives were killed in Nazi gas chambers. They arrived in the United States when their son was 5 and settled in the Queens borough of New York City, where Springer got his first Yankees baseball gear on his way to becoming a lifelong fan.

 

He studied political science at Tulane University and got a law degree from Northwestern University. He was active in politics much of his adult life, mulling a run for governor of Ohio as recently as 2017.

 

He entered the arena as an aide in Robert F. Kennedy’s ill-fated 1968 presidential campaign. Springer, working for a Cincinnati law firm, ran unsuccessfully for Congress in 1970 before being elected to city council in 1971.

 

In 1974 — in what The Cincinnati Enquirer reported as “an abrupt move that shook Cincinnati’s political community” — Springer resigned. He cited “very personal family considerations,” but what he didn’t mention was a vice probe involving prostitution. In a subsequent admission that could have been the basis for one of his future shows, Springer said he had paid prostitutes with personal checks.

 

Then 30, he had married Micki Velton the previous year. The couple had a daughter, Katie, and divorced in 1994.

 

Springer quickly bounced back politically, winning a council seat in 1975 and serving as mayor in 1977. He later became a local television politics reporter with popular evening commentaries. He and co-anchor Norma Rashid eventually helped build NBC affiliate WLWT-TV’s broadcast into the Cincinnati market’s top-rated news show.

 

Springer began his talk show in 1991 with more of a traditional format, but after he left WLWT in 1993, it got a sleazy makeover.

 

TV Guide ranked it No. 1 on a list of “Worst Shows in the History of Television,” but it was ratings gold. It made Springer a celebrity who would go on to host a liberal radio talk show and “America’s Got Talent,” star in a movie called “Ringmaster,” and compete on “Dancing With the Stars.”

 

“With all the joking I do with the show, I’m fully aware and thank God every day that my life has taken this incredible turn because of this silly show,” Springer told Cincinnati Enquirer media reporter John Kiesewetter in 2011.

 

Well in advance of Donald Trump’s political rise from reality TV stardom, Springer mulled a Senate run in 2003 that he surmised could draw on “nontraditional voters,” people “who believe most politics are bull.”

 

“I connect with a whole bunch of people who probably connect more to me right now than to a traditional politician,” Springer told the AP at the time. He opposed the war on Iraq and favored expanding public healthcare, but ultimately did not run.

 

Springer also spoke often of the country he came to age 5 as “a beacon of light for the rest of world.”

 

“I have no other motivation but to say I love this country,” Springer said to a Democratic gathering in 2003.

 

Springer hosted a nationally syndicated “Judge Jerry” show in 2019 and continued to speak out on whatever was on his mind in a podcast, but his power to shock had dimmed in the new era of reality television and combative cable TV talk shows.

 

“He was lapped not only by other programs but by real life,” David Bianculli, a television historian and professor at Monmouth University, said in 2018.

 

Despite the limits Springer’s show put on his political aspirations, he embraced its legacy. In a 2003 fund-raising infomercial ahead of a possible U.S. Senate run the following year, Springer referenced a quote by then National Review commentator Jonah Goldberg, who warned of new people brought to the polls by Springer, including “slack-jawed yokels, hicks, weirdos, pervs and whatnots.”

 

In the informercial, Springer referred to the quote and talked about wanting to reach out to “regular folks ... who weren’t born with a silver spoon in your mouth.”

 

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Carolyn Bryant Donham, woman at center Emmett Till lynching, dies

JACKSON, Miss. — The white woman who accused Black teenager Emmett Till of making improper advances before he was lynched in Mississippi in 1955 has died in hospice care in Louisiana, a coroner's report shows. Carolyn Bryant Donham was 88.

 

Donham died Tuesday night in Westlake, Louisiana, according to a death report filed Thursday in Calcasieu Parish Coroner’s Office in Louisiana.

Till’s kidnapping and killing became a catalyst for the civil rights movement when his mother insisted on an open-casket funeral in their hometown of Chicago after his brutalized body was pulled from a river in Mississippi. Jet magazine published photos.

 

Till traveled from Chicago to visit relatives in Mississippi in August 1955. Donham — then named Carolyn Bryant — accused him of making improper advances on her at a grocery store in the small community of Money. The Rev. Wheeler Parker, a cousin of Till who was there, has said 14-year-old Till whistled at the woman, an act that flew in the face of Mississippi’s racist social codes of the era.

 

Evidence indicates a woman identified Till to her then-husband Roy Bryant and his half-brother J.W. Milam, who killed the teenager. An all-white jury acquitted the two white men in the killing, but the men later confessed in an interview with Look magazine.

Donham said she didn't know what would happen to Emmett Till

In an unpublished memoir obtained by The Associated Press in 2022, Donham said she was unaware of what would happen to the 14-year-old Till. Donham was 21 at the time.

 

The contents of the 99-page manuscript, titled “I am More Than A Wolf Whistle,” were first reported by the Mississippi Center for Investigative Reporting. Historian and author Timothy Tyson of Durham, who said he obtained a copy from Donham while interviewing her in 2008, provided a copy to the AP.

 

Tyson had placed the manuscript in an archive at the University of North Carolina with the agreement that it not be made public for decades, though he said he gave it to the FBI during an investigation the agency concluded last year. He said he decided to make it public now following the recent discovery of an arrest warrant on kidnapping charges that was issued for Donham in 1955 but never served.

 

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Good riddance.

Edited April 27, 2023 by nuckin_futz

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1 hour ago, nuckin_futz said:

Carolyn Bryant Donham, woman at center Emmett Till lynching, dies

JACKSON, Miss. — The white woman who accused Black teenager Emmett Till of making improper advances before he was lynched in Mississippi in 1955 has died in hospice care in Louisiana, a coroner's report shows. Carolyn Bryant Donham was 88.

 

Donham died Tuesday night in Westlake, Louisiana, according to a death report filed Thursday in Calcasieu Parish Coroner’s Office in Louisiana.

Till’s kidnapping and killing became a catalyst for the civil rights movement when his mother insisted on an open-casket funeral in their hometown of Chicago after his brutalized body was pulled from a river in Mississippi. Jet magazine published photos.

 

Till traveled from Chicago to visit relatives in Mississippi in August 1955. Donham — then named Carolyn Bryant — accused him of making improper advances on her at a grocery store in the small community of Money. The Rev. Wheeler Parker, a cousin of Till who was there, has said 14-year-old Till whistled at the woman, an act that flew in the face of Mississippi’s racist social codes of the era.

 

Evidence indicates a woman identified Till to her then-husband Roy Bryant and his half-brother J.W. Milam, who killed the teenager. An all-white jury acquitted the two white men in the killing, but the men later confessed in an interview with Look magazine.

Donham said she didn't know what would happen to Emmett Till

In an unpublished memoir obtained by The Associated Press in 2022, Donham said she was unaware of what would happen to the 14-year-old Till. Donham was 21 at the time.

 

The contents of the 99-page manuscript, titled “I am More Than A Wolf Whistle,” were first reported by the Mississippi Center for Investigative Reporting. Historian and author Timothy Tyson of Durham, who said he obtained a copy from Donham while interviewing her in 2008, provided a copy to the AP.

 

Tyson had placed the manuscript in an archive at the University of North Carolina with the agreement that it not be made public for decades, though he said he gave it to the FBI during an investigation the agency concluded last year. He said he decided to make it public now following the recent discovery of an arrest warrant on kidnapping charges that was issued for Donham in 1955 but never served.

 

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Good riddance.

Amen.

 

Lying b!tch....

[canuck73_3]

5 hours ago, nuckin_futz said:

Carolyn Bryant Donham, woman at center Emmett Till lynching, dies

JACKSON, Miss. — The white woman who accused Black teenager Emmett Till of making improper advances before he was lynched in Mississippi in 1955 has died in hospice care in Louisiana, a coroner's report shows. Carolyn Bryant Donham was 88.

 

Donham died Tuesday night in Westlake, Louisiana, according to a death report filed Thursday in Calcasieu Parish Coroner’s Office in Louisiana.

Till’s kidnapping and killing became a catalyst for the civil rights movement when his mother insisted on an open-casket funeral in their hometown of Chicago after his brutalized body was pulled from a river in Mississippi. Jet magazine published photos.

 

Till traveled from Chicago to visit relatives in Mississippi in August 1955. Donham — then named Carolyn Bryant — accused him of making improper advances on her at a grocery store in the small community of Money. The Rev. Wheeler Parker, a cousin of Till who was there, has said 14-year-old Till whistled at the woman, an act that flew in the face of Mississippi’s racist social codes of the era.

 

Evidence indicates a woman identified Till to her then-husband Roy Bryant and his half-brother J.W. Milam, who killed the teenager. An all-white jury acquitted the two white men in the killing, but the men later confessed in an interview with Look magazine.

Donham said she didn't know what would happen to Emmett Till

In an unpublished memoir obtained by The Associated Press in 2022, Donham said she was unaware of what would happen to the 14-year-old Till. Donham was 21 at the time.

 

The contents of the 99-page manuscript, titled “I am More Than A Wolf Whistle,” were first reported by the Mississippi Center for Investigative Reporting. Historian and author Timothy Tyson of Durham, who said he obtained a copy from Donham while interviewing her in 2008, provided a copy to the AP.

 

Tyson had placed the manuscript in an archive at the University of North Carolina with the agreement that it not be made public for decades, though he said he gave it to the FBI during an investigation the agency concluded last year. He said he decided to make it public now following the recent discovery of an arrest warrant on kidnapping charges that was issued for Donham in 1955 but never served.

 

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Good riddance.

Just one more grave to piss on.

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Gordon Lightfoot has passed....

 

https://www.msn.com/en-ca/news/canada/legendary-folk-singer-songwriter-gordon-lightfoot-dies-at-84/ar-AA1aBV3a?ocid=hpmsn&cvid=5b2fb297ace84bf48d2576e71f9e5f7b&ei=42

 

Quote

 

Gordon Lightfoot, the legendary folk singer whose silvery refrains told a tale of Canadian identity that was exported to listeners worldwide, has died at 84.

Victoria Lord, the musician's longtime publicist and a representative for the family, says Lightfoot died at a Toronto hospital on Monday evening.

A cause of death was not immediately available.

Considered one of the most renowned voices to emerge from Toronto's Yorkville folk club scene in the 1960s, Lightfoot went on to record no less than 20 studio albums and pen hundreds of songs, including "Early Morning Rain," "Carefree Highway" and "Sundown."

Once called a "rare talent" by Bob Dylan, his timeless compositions have transcended the boundaries of generations and musical genres.

Dozens of artists have covered his work, including Elvis Presley, Barbra Streisand, Harry Belafonte, Johnny Cash, Anne Murray, Jane's Addiction, Sarah McLachlan and, perhaps most surprisingly, dance supergroup Stars on 54 who turned his classic "If You Could Read My Mind" into a disco-pop curiosity for the 1998 movie "54."

Most of his songs are deeply autobiographical with lyrics that probe his own experiences in a frank and unclouded manner and explore issues surrounding the Canadian national identity.

 

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