Day in History 3 March – Lou Costello – Danny Kaye – Marguerite Duras – Malcolm Kilduff, Jr. – Horst Buchholz

Posted on 29 MaramSun, 03 Mar 2024 00:36:00 -06002024-03-03T00:36:00-06:0012 2011 by MacGregor

#RIP #OTD in 1959 comedian, actor (Abbott & Costello, “Who’s on First?”) Lou Costello died at Doctors Hospital, Beverly Hills from a heart attack, aged 52. Calvary Cemetery, East Los Angeles.

#RIP #OTD in 1987 actor (The Kid from Brooklyn, The Secret Life of Walter Mitty, Hans Christian Andersen, White Christmas, The Court Jester), singer, dancer, philanthropist, cook, Danny Kaye died of heart failure in Los Angeles, aged 76. Kensico Cemetery, Valhalla, New York.

#RIP #OTD in 1996, novelist (L’Amant), playwright, screenwriter (Hiroshima mon amour), essayist, and experimental filmmaker Marguerite Duras died in Paris at the age of 81. Cimetière du Montparnasse, Paris

On this day in 2003, U. S. Navy veteran, journalist, Assistant White House Press Secretary, Malcolm MacGregor “Mac” Kilduff, Jr. died in a nursing home in Beattyville, Kentucky at the age of 75.  Born on 26 September 1927 in New Jersey.  As the ranking press secretary accompanying JFK on his trip to Dallas, Texas in November 1963,  Kilduff announced to the assembled press in the nurse’s room at Parkland Hospital in Dallas, “President John F. Kennedy died at approximately 1:00 CST today here in Dallas. He died of a gunshot wound to the brain. I have no other details regarding the assassination of the president.”  Shortly before his announcement to the press, Kilduff told the news to LBJ by simply walking up to Johnson and calling him, Mr. President.  Johnson’s wife, Lady Bird, let out a short scream, realizing what that meant.  Kilduff maintained that Oswald was the lone gunman that day, but he believed that Governor John B. Connally was the intended target and not JFK.  According to Kilduff’s biographical sketch on Arlington National Cemetery’s website, Oswald had appealed his dishonorable discharge from the Marine Corps to Connally, who served as secretary of the Navy before being elected governor in 1962.

The Final Footprint – Kilduff is interred in Arlington National Cemetery in Arlington, Virginia.  His grave is marked by an upright marble VA marker.  Other notable Final Footprints at Arlington include; Space Shuttle Challenger, Space Shuttle Columbia, Medgar Evers, JFK, Jacqueline Bouvier Kennedy Onassis, RFK, Edward Kennedy, Lee Marvin, and Audie Murphy.

Also on this day in 2003 actor Horst Buchholz died unexpectedly at the age of sixty-nine in the Berlin Charité from pneumonia that developed after an operation for a hip fracture. Born Horst Werner Buchholz on 4 December 1933 . He appeared in more than sixty feature films from 1951 to 2002. During his youth he was sometimes called “the German James Dean.” He is perhaps best known in English-speaking countries for his role as Chico in The Magnificent Seven (1960), as a communist in Billy Wilder’s One, Two, Three (1961) and as Dr. Lessing in Life Is Beautiful (1997).

Buchholz was married to Myriam Bru from 1958 until his death in 2003.

The Final Footprint

Berlin was the city to which his loyalty was constant, and he was buried there in the Friedhof Heerstraße. The word below his name on his marker means “actor”. Below his birth and death dates it says in German, “Love the world and the world will love you”.

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Day in History 2 March – Berthe Morisot – D. H. Lawrence – Philip K. Dick – Randolph Scott – Serge Gainsbourg – Sandy Dennis – Dusty Springfield – Anita Morris – Mercedes McCambridge

Posted on 29 MaramSat, 02 Mar 2024 00:12:00 -06002024-03-02T00:12:00-06:0012 2011 by MacGregor

Berthe_Morisot,_1875On this day in 1895, painter Berthe Morisot died in Paris, of pneumonia at the age of 54.  Born Berthe Marie Pauline Morisot on 14 January 1841 in Bourges, Cher, France.  She was a member of the circle of painters in Paris who became known as the Impressionists.  She was described by Gustave Geffroy in 1894 as one of “les trois grandes dames” of Impressionism alongside Marie Bracquemond and Mary Cassatt.  In 1864, she exhibited for the first time in the esteemed Salon de Paris.  Sponsored by the government, and judged by Academicians, the Salon was the official, annual exhibition of the Académie des beaux-arts in Paris.  Her work was selected for exhibition in six subsequent Salons until 1874 when she joined the “rejected” Impressionists in the first of their own exhibitions.  She was married to Eugène Manet, the brother of her friend and colleague Édouard Manet.

The Final Footprint – Morisot is interred in the Cimetière de Passy.  Other notable final footprints as Passy include; Claude Debussy, Gabriel Faure, Hubert de Givenchy, Édouard Manet, and Octave Mirbeau.

Gallery

The Cradle, 1872, Musée d’Orsay

Grain field, c.1875, Musée d’Orsay 
 

 Édouard Manet, Berthe Morisot with a Bouquet of Violets (in mourning for her father), 1872, Musée d’Orsay 
 

 Bergère nue couchée (Shepherdess – reclining nude)
 

The Artist’s Daughter Julie with her Nanny, c. 1884. Minneapolis Institute of Art
 

 La Coiffure 

    • The Harbor at Lorient, 1869, National Gallery of Art

    • On the Balcony, 1872, New York

    • Reading, 1873, Cleveland Museum of Art

    • Hanging the Laundry out to Dry, 1875, National Gallery of Art

    • Lady at her Toilette, 1875 The Art Institute of Chicago

    • Eugène Manet on the Isle of Wight, 1875, Musée Marmottan Monet

    • The Dining Room, c. 1875 National Gallery of Art

    • Summer Day, 1879, National Gallery, London

    • Winter aka Woman with a Muff, 1880, Dallas Museum of Arts

    • Child among the Hollyhocks, 1881, Wallraf-Richartz Museum

    • The Artists’ Daughter Julie With Her Nanny, c.1884, Minneapolis Institute of Art

    • The Bath (Girl Arranging Her Hair), 1885–86, Clark Art Institute

  • Julie Manet et son Lévrier Laerte, 1893, Musée Marmottan Monet

Portraits of Morisot

    • Detail from The balcony by Édouard Manet, with the portrait of Berthe in the foreground. 1868.

    • Berthe Morisot posing for The Rest. 1870. By Édouard Manet.

    • Berthe Morisot on a divan couch, 1872, by Édouard Manet.

    • Portrait of Berthe Morisot with a Fan, 1874 by Édouard Manet.

    • Portrait of Berthe Morisot, 1876, by Marcellin Desboutin.

    • Portrait of Berthe Morisot. 1882. By Édouard Manet.

    • Berthe Morisot au soulier rose. 1872. By Édouard Manet. Hiroshima Museum of Art.

    • Berthe Morisot and her daughter Julie Manet, 1894, by Pierre-Auguste Renoir.

  • Berthe Morisot, 1892, by Renoir.

D_H_Lawrence_passport_photographOn this day in 1930, novelist, poet, playwright, essayist, literary critic and painter D. H. Lawrence died at the Villa Robermond in Vence, France, from complications of tuberculosis at the age of 44.  Born David Herbert Richards Lawrence 11 September 1885 in Eastwood, Nottinghamshire, England.  Perhaps best known for his novel, Lady Chatterley’s Lover, first published in 1928.  The first edition was printed privately in Florence, Italy; an unexpurgated edition could not be published openly in the United Kingdom until 1960.  (A private edition was issued by Mandrake Press in 1929.)  The book soon became notorious for its story of the physical (and emotional) relationship between a working class man and an upper class woman, its explicit descriptions of sex, and its use of then-unprintable words.

Lawrence’s opinions earned him many enemies and he endured official persecution, censorship, and misrepresentation of his creative work throughout the second half of his life, much of which he spent in a voluntary exile which he called his “savage pilgrimage”.  At the time of his death, his public reputation was that of a pornographer who had wasted his considerable talents.  E. M. Forster, in an obituary notice, challenged this widely held view, describing him as, “The greatest imaginative novelist of our generation.”  Later, the influential Cambridge critic F. R. Leavis championed both his artistic integrity and his moral seriousness, placing much of Lawrence’s fiction within the canonical “great tradition” of the English novel.  In March 1912 Lawrence met Frieda Weekley (née von Richthofen), with whom he was to share the rest of his life.  Six years older than her new lover, she was married to Ernest Weekley, his former modern languages professor at University College, Nottingham, and had three young children.  She eloped with Lawrence to her parents’ home in Metz.

The Final Footprint – Frieda commissioned an elaborate headstone for his grave bearing a mosaic of his adopted emblem of the phoenix.  After Lawrence’s death, Frieda lived with Angelo Ravagli on a ranch in Taos, New Mexico and eventually married him in 1950.  In 1935 Ravagli arranged, on Frieda’s behalf, to have Lawrence’s body exhumed and cremated.  However, upon boarding the ship he learned he would have to pay taxes on the cremated remains, so he instead spread them in the Mediterranean, a more preferable resting place, in his opinion, than a concrete block in a chapel. Some dust and dirt was interred on the Taos ranch in a small chapelhis ashes brought back to the D. H. Lawrence Ranch, east of Taos, New Mexico, to be interred there in a small chapel.

#RIP #OTD in 1982 science fiction writer (The Man in the High Castle, Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?, The Minority Report) Philip K. Dick died from a stroke in Santa Ana, California, aged 53. Cremated remains Riverside Cemetery in Fort Morgan, Colorado.

#RIP #OTD in 1987 actor (Ride the High Country) Randolph Scott died of heart and lung ailments at the age of 89 in Beverly Hills. Elmwood Cemetery, Charlotte, North Carolina

#RIP #OTD in 1991 French singer-songwriter (“Je t’aime… moi non plus”, “Bonnie and Clyde”), actor, composer, director, Serge Gainsbourg died from a heart attack at his home in Paris aged 62. Jewish section of Montparnasse Cemetery in Paris

#RIP #OTD  in 1992 actress (Splendor in the Grass, Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?, The Out-of-Towners) Sandy Dennis died from ovarian cancer at her home in Westport, Connecticut, at age 54. Cremated remains Lincoln Memorial Park, Lincoln, Nebraska

On this day in 1999, British pop singer, “The White Queen of Soul”, Dusty Springfield, died in Henley-on-Thames, Oxfordshire, England from cancer at the age of 59.  Born Mary Isobel Catherine Bernadette O’Brien on 16 April 1939 in West Hampstead, North London to an Irish Catholic family.  Her voice was distinctively sensual and soulful.  My favorite Springfield album is Dusty in Memphis and of course my favorite song from that album is “Son of a Preacher Man.”

The Final Footprint – Springfield was cremated.  Part of her cremains were interred at the parish church St. Mary the Virgin in Henley-on-Thames, South Oxfordshire, England.  A marker dedicated to her memory was placed there.

Cliffs of Moher

A part of her cremains were scattered at the Cliffs of Moher, County Clare, Ireland.

#RIP #OTD in 1994 actress on stage (Jesus Christ Superstar, Seesaw, Nine) and film (The Hotel New Hampshire, Absolute Beginners, Ruthless People), singer and dancer, Anita Morris died from ovarian cancer in Los Angeles, aged 50. Maplewood Cemetery in Durham, North Carolina.

#RIP #OTD in 2004 actress (All the King’s Men, Giant, The Exorcist) Mercedes McCambridge died in La Jolla in San Diego, aged 87. Cremated remains scattered at sea.

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Day in History 1 March – Charles Lindbergh, Jr. – Gabriele D’Annunzio – Wilhelmina Cooper – Bonnie Franklin

Posted on 29 MaramFri, 01 Mar 2024 00:24:00 -06002024-03-01T00:24:00-06:0012 2011 by MacGregor

On this day in 1932, the 20 month old son of Charles Lindbergh, Charles Augustus Lindbergh, Jr., was kidnapped and murdered in Hopewell, New Jersey.  Born on 22 June 1930 in Englewood Bergen, New Jersey.  In what came to be referred to as “The Crime of the Century”, the boy was abducted from his family home in East Amwell, New Jersey, near the town of Hopewell, New Jersey, on the evening of 1 March 1932.  His body was discovered a short distance from the Lindberghs’ home on 12 May 1932.  A medical examination determined that the cause of death was a massive skull fracture.  After an investigation that lasted more than two years and was ostensibly run by New Jersey State Police superintendent Colonel Herbert Norman Swarzkopf, the father of the future General H. Norman Swarzkopf, Jr., Bruno Richard Hauptmann was arrested and charged with the crime.  Hauptmann was found guilty of murder in the first degree and sentenced to death.  He was executed by electric chair at the New Jersey State Prison on 3 April 1936, at 8:44 in the evening.  Hauptmann proclaimed his innocence to the end.  Newspaper writer H. L. Mencken called the kidnapping and subsequent trial “the biggest story since the Resurrection”.  The crime spurred Congress to pass the Federal Kidnapping Act, commonly called the “Lindbergh Law”, which made transporting a kidnapping victim across state lines a federal crime.

The Final Footprint – Lindbergh was cremated and his cremains were scattered in the Atlantic Ocean. 

#RIP #OTD in 1938 Italian poet, playwright, orator, journalist, aristocrat, army officer during World War I, Il Vate, Il Profeta, Gabriele D’Annunzio died of a stroke, at his home in Gardone Riviera, aged 74. Il Vittoriale degli Italiani, Gardone Riviera

Wilhelmina Cooper

Wilhelmina Cooper in a photograph by Edgar de Evia.jpg

Wilhelmina photographed by Edgar de Evia

On this day in 1980 model and founder of Wilhelmina Models, Wilhelmina Cooper died at age 40 in Grennwich, Connecticut from lung cancer. Born Gertrude Behmenburg on 1 May 1939 in Culemborg, Netherlands. She began modeling with Ford Models and, at the peak of her success, founded Wilhelmina Models, in New York City in 1967. During her career as a model she was on the cover of 255 magazines.

According to her obituary in Time magazine:

During her cover-girl days, Wilhelmina boasted that she was “one of the few high-fashion models built like a woman.” And she was. With her 5 ft. 11 in., 38-24-36 frame, doe eyes, delicate cheekbones and mane of high-piled dark hair, she epitomized the classical, aristocratic look that she helped to make the style standard of the 1950s and ’60s…

In 1965 she married Bruce Cooper, former executive producer of The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson. In 1967 they founded Wilhelmina Models, which became the other leading model agency alongside Ford Models.

The Final Footprint

Cooper was cremated.

Cooper was portrayed by Faye Dunaway in the 1998 movie Gia, which tells the story of Gia Carangi, a model who was discovered by Cooper and later died of AIDS.

#RIP #OTD in 2013 actress (Ann Romano in One Day at a Time) Bonnie Franklin died from pancreatic cancer at her home in the Los Angeles Area, aged 69. Mount Sinai Memorial Park Cemetery in Los Angeles

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On this day February 29 – Pat Garrett – Ina Coolbrith – Davy Jones

Posted on 29 FebamThu, 29 Feb 2024 00:03:00 -06002024-02-29T00:03:00-06:0012 2011 by MacGregor

220px-Pat_Garrett2On this day in 1908; American Old West lawman, bartender, sheriff of Lincoln County, New Mexico as well as Doña Ana County, New Mexico, rancher and customs agent, Pat Garrett was shot and killed near Las Cruces, New Mexico, at the age of 57.  His murder went unsolved.  Born Patrick Floyd Jarvis Garrett on June 5, 1850, in Chambers County, Alabama.  Perhaps best known as the man who shot and killed Billy the Kid.  He coauthored a book about Billy the Kid which, for a generation after the Kid’s death, was deemed authoritative; however, historians have since found many embellishments and inconsistencies with other accounts of the outlaw’s life.  Garrett also became one of President Theodore Roosevelt’s three “White House Gunfighters” (Bat Masterson and Ben Daniels were the others) when Roosevelt appointed him Collector of Customs in El Paso.  220px-Garrett_grave2

TheFinal Footprint – Garrett’s body was too tall (he was 6′ 5″) for any finished coffins available, so a special one had to be shipped in from El Paso.  His funeral service was held March 5, 1908, and he was laid to rest next to his daughter, Ida, who had died in 1896 at the age of fifteen, at the Masonic Cemetery in Las Cruces.

Memorial marking spot where Pat Garrett was killed

The site of Garrett’s death is now commemorated by a historical marker south of U.S. Route 70, between Las Cruces and the San Augustin Pass.  The actual spot where Garrett was shot was marked Pat’s son Jarvis Garrett in 1938-1940 with a monument consisting of concrete laid around a stone with a cross carved in it.  The cross is believed to be the work of Pat’s mother.  Scratched in the concrete is “P. Garrett” and the date of his killing.  Garrett has been portrayed in film many times including:

  • Thomas Mitchell in The Outlaw (United Artists, 1943)
  • Glenn Corbett in Chisum (Warner Bros., 1970)
  • James Coburn in Pat Garrett & Billy the Kid (MGM, 1973)
  • Patrick Wayne in Young Guns (Fox, 1988)
  • William Petersen in Young Guns II (Fox, 1990)

#RIP #OTD in 1928 poet, writer, librarian, first poet laureate of California, Ina Coolbrith died in Berkeley aged 86. Mountain View Cemetery in Oakland

On this day in 2012, singer-songwriter, musician, actor, and teen idol, Davy Jones died from a heart attack after riding one of his favourite horses, at Martin Memorial South Hospital in Stuart, Florida, age 66. Born David Thomas Jones on 30 December 1945 in Openshaw, Manchester, England. Perhaps best known as a member of the band the Monkees, and for starring in the TV series of the same name. His acting credits include a Tony-nominated performance as the Artful Dodger in the original London and Broadway productions of Oliver! as well as a guest star role in a hallmark episode of The Brady Bunch television show and later reprised parody film; Love, American Style; and My Two Dads.

Jones with Maureen McCormick in the 1971 The Brady Bunch episode “Getting Davy Jones”, in which he was a guest star.

Jones was married three times. In December 1968, he married Dixie Linda Haines, with whom he had been living. Their relationship had been kept out of the public eye until after the birth of their first child in October 1968. It caused a considerable backlash for Jones from his fans when it was finally made public. Jones later stated in Tiger Beat magazine, “I kept my marriage a secret because I believe stars should be allowed a private life.”  The marriage ended in 1975.

Jones married his second wife, Anita Pollinger, on 24 January 1981. They divorced in 1996 during the Monkees’ 30th-anniversary reunion tour. Jones married for a third time in 2009 to Jessica Pacheco. On 28 July 2011, Pacheco filed to divorce Jones in Miami-Dade County, Florida, but dropped the suit in October. They were still married when he died. .

The Final Footprint

Jones was cremated. On Wednesday, 7 March 2012, a private funeral service was held at Holy Cross Catholic parish in Indiantown. To avoid drawing attention to the grieving family, the three surviving Monkees did not attend. Instead, the group attended memorial services in New York City and organized their own private memorial in Los Angeles along with Jones’s family and close friends. A public memorial service was held on 10 March 2012 in Beavertown, Pennsylvania, near a church Jones had purchased for future renovation.

On Monday, 12 March, a private memorial service was held in Jones’s home town of Openshaw, Manchester at Lees Street Congregational Church, where Jones performed as a child in church plays. Jones’s wife and daughters travelled to England to join his relatives based there for the service, and placed his ashes on his parents’ graves for a time.

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On this day 28 February – Paul Harvey – Jane Russell – George Kennedy

Posted on 29 FebamWed, 28 Feb 2024 00:15:00 -06002024-02-28T00:15:00-06:0012 2011 by MacGregor

On this day in 2009, radio broadcaster, Paul Harvey, died in Phoenix, Arizona at the age of 90.  Born Paul Harvey Aurandt on 4 September 1918 in Tulsa, Oklahoma.  He broadcast News and Comment on weekday mornings and mid-days, and at noon on Saturdays, as well as his famous The Rest of the Story segments.  His listening audience was estimated, at its peak, at 24 million people a week.  Paul Harvey News was carried on 1,200 radio stations, 400 Armed Forces Network stations and 300 newspapers.  Harvey was noted for his folksy delivery and his dramatic pauses and quirky intonations.  He explained his relationship with his sponsors, saying “I am fiercely loyal to those willing to put their money where my mouth is.”  Harvey was married to Lynne “Angel” Cooper (1940 – 2008 her death). 

The Final Footprint – Harvey is entombed with his wife Angel in the Harvey private mausoleum in Forest Home Cemetery, Forest Park, Illinois.

On this day in 2011 actress Jane Russell died at her home in Santa Maria of a respiratory-related illness at the age of 89. Born Ernestine Jane Geraldine Russell on June 21, 1921 in Bemidji, Minnesota. She was one of Hollywood’s leading sex symbols in the 1940s and 1950s.

Russell had her first film role in 1943 in The Outlaw. In 1947, Russell delved into music before returning to films. After starring in several films in the 1950s, including Gentlemen Prefer Blondes in 1953, Russell again returned to music while completing several other films in the 1960s. She starred in more than 20 films throughout her career.

Russell married three times, adopted three children, and in 1955 founded Waif, the first international adoption program. She received several accolades for her achievements in films, including having her hand and footprints immortalized in the forecourt of Grauman’s Chinese Theatre, and having a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.

Russell in The Outlaw (1943)

With Dorothy Lamour, Bing Crosby, and Bob Hope in Road to Bali (1952)

With Robert Mitchum in His Kind of Woman (1951)

As Dorothy Shaw in Gentlemen Prefer Blondes (1953)

Marilyn Monroe and Russell putting signatures, hand, and footprints in wet concrete at Grauman’s Chinese Theater, 1953.

Russell was married three times, first to Bob Waterfield; they were married from 1943 until their divorce in July, 1968. He was a UCLA All-America, Cleveland Rams quarterback, Los Angeles Rams quarterback, Los Angeles Rams head coach, and member of the Pro Football Hall of Fame. Two months after her divorce from Waterfield, Russell married actor Roger Barrett; the marriage ended when he died of a heart attack only two months later in November, 1968. She married real-estate broker John Calvin Peoples on January 31, 1974, living with him until his death from heart failure on April 9, 1999. Russell and Peoples lived in Sedona, Arizona, for a few years, but spent the majority of their married life residing in Montecito, California.

The Final Footprint

Her funeral was held on March 12, 2011, at Pacific Christian Church, Santa Maria. Her cremains were scattered at sea.

On this day in 2016, United States Army veteran, actor George Kennedy died of a heart ailment at an assisted living facility in Middleton, Idaho, ten days after his 91st birthday. Born George Harris Kennedy Jr. on February 18, 1925 in New York City. Kennedy appeared in more than 200 film and television productions. He played “Dragline” opposite Paul Newman in Cool Hand Luke (1967), winning the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor for the role and being nominated for the corresponding Golden Globe. He received a second Golden Globe nomination for portraying Joe Patroni in Airport (1970).

Kennedy was the only actor to appear in all four films in the Airport series, having reprised the role of Joe Patroni three times. He also played Police Captain Ed Hocken in the Naked Gun series of comedy films, Lew Slade in the 1974 movie Earthquake and corrupt oil tycoon Carter McKay on the original Dallas television series.

Promotional photo of Kennedy for the TV series Sarge, 1971

Kennedy as Bumper Morgan in The Blue Knight, 1976

Kennedy wrote three books. In 1983, he wrote the murder mystery Murder On Location, set on a film shoot. A second novel, Murder on High, was released in 1984. In 2011, he wrote his autobiography, Trust Me.

Kennedy was married four times, to three women. In the 1940s, he married Dorothy Gillooly (1926-2012), who had served in the Women’s Army Corps. They divorced in the 1950s. In 1959, Kennedy married Norma Wurman, also known as Revel Wurman (1929-2007). Kennedy and Norma were divorced for the first time in 1971, got remarried in 1973, and were divorced for a second and final time in 1978. That same year (1978), Kennedy married Joan McCarthy (nee Castagna), daughter of John Castagna and former wife of William James McCarthy. They remained married until her death in September 2015.

The Final Footprint

Kennedy resided in Eagle, Idaho, at the time of his death. He had also been much affected by the death of Joan, his third wife, less than six months previously.

At the time of his death, Kennedy was the oldest living Oscar winner in the Best Supporting Actor category. Coincidentally, he died the day of the 88th Academy Awards ceremony. Kennedy was cremated

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Day in History 27 February – Lillian Gish – Fred Rogers – William F. Buckley, Jr. – Leonard Nimoy

Posted on 29 FebamTue, 27 Feb 2024 00:33:00 -06002024-02-27T00:33:00-06:0012 2011 by MacGregor

#RIP #OTD in 1993 actress (The Birth of a Nation, Duel in the Sun, The Night of the Hunter), director, screenwriter, “The First Lady of American Cinema” Lillian Gish died of heart failure in New York City, aged 99. Cremated remains Saint Bartholomew’s Episcopal Church, NYC

#RIP #OTD in 2003 television host (Mister Rogers’ Neighborhood from 1968 to 2001), author, producer, and Presbyterian minister, Fred Rogers died from stomach cancer at his home in Pittsburgh, aged 74. Private masoleum, Unity Cemetery in Latrobe, Pennsylvania

On this day in 2008, Yale alumnus, former CIA agent, conservative commentator, author, founder of the magazine National Review, host of the television show Firing Line, nationally syndicated newspaper columnist, pianist, sailor, WFB, William F. Buckley, Jr., died at his home, at his desk, in Stamford, Connecticut at the age of 82.  Born William Frank Buckley, Jr. on 24 November 1925 in New York City.  His father was of Irish descent and his mother, Aloise Josephine Antonia Steiner was a New Orleans native of Swiss-German descent.  WFB is one of my heroes.  He helped form my early political thought process; that being, fiscally conservative and socially conservative/libertarian or libertarian leaning.  Historian George H. Nash believed that Buckley was “arguably the most important public intellectual in the United States in the past half century“.  Nash wrote; “For an entire generation he was the preeminent voice of American conservatism and its first great ecumenical figure.”   WFB fused traditional American political conservatism with laissez-faire economic theory and anti-communism, laying the groundwork for the modern American conservatism of U.S. presidential candidate Barry Goldwater and President Ronald Reagan.  His first book was God and Man at Yale (1951); among over fifty further books on writing, speaking, history, politics, sailing and a series of novels featuring CIA agent Blackford Oakes.  He was a practicing Roman Catholic, regularly attending the traditional Latin Mass.  WFB was married to Patricia Aldyen Austin “Pat” Taylor (1950–2007 her death).  Michelle Tsai in Slate says that WFB spoke English with an idiosyncratic accent: something between an old-fashioned, upper class Mid-Atlantic accent, and British Received Pronunciation, with a Southern drawl.  I was a long time subscriber to National Review.  I have read many of his columns, his sailing books and his novels and thoroughly enjoyed them.  He had a vast command of the English language.  I suggest when you read him you should have a dictionary at hand and it would serve you well to brush up on your Latin.  WFB was witty and eloquent and is missed. 

The Final Footprint – WFB is interred next to his wife Pat in Saint Bernard Cemetery in Sharon, Connecticut.  Their graves are marked by a stone cross and a companion raised stone marker.  On 1 November 2009, the editorial/literary publication, The New Islander, was founded and dedicated to WFB.  In addition to occasionally publishing pieces reflecting on his life’s work, two of the magazine’s founding editors, Paul Young and Brianne Corcoran, hinted at the publication’s respect for and allegiance to his conservative political ideology.  In the magazine’s opening mission statement, they wrote:  “We will take a conservative stance in accordance to the fair [ideology]… of Mr. [William F.] Buckley, [Jr.]… that God-fearing sailing enthusiast from Connecticut.  Let Yale never forget him.”

220px-Leonard_Nimoy,_2011,_ST_Con-2On this day in 2015, actor, film director, photographer, author, singer, and songwriter, Mr. Spock, Leonard Nimoy died of complications from COPD at the age of 83, in his Bel Air home.  Born Leonard Simon Nimoy on March 26, 1931 in the West End of Boston, Massachusetts, the son of Jewish immigrants from Iziaslav, Ukraine.

In December 1964, he made his first appearance in the rejected Star Trek pilot “The Cage”, and went on to play the character of Spock until the end of the production run in early 1969, followed by eight feature films and guest slots in the various spin-off series.  The character has had a significant cultural impact and garnered Nimoy three Emmy Award nominations.  TV Guide named Spock one of the 50 greatest TV characters.  Nimoy’s profile as Spock was such that both of his autobiographies, I Am Not Spock (1975) and I Am Spock (1995), were written from the viewpoint of sharing his existence with the character.   Nimoy was married twice.  In 1954, he married actress Sandra Zober (1927–2011).  The couple divorced in 1987.  On New Year’s Day 1989, Nimoy married actress Susan Bay. Leonard Nimoy lived long and he prospered.  

The Final Footprint – A few days before his death, Nimoy shared some of his poetry on social media website Twitter: “A life is like a garden. Perfect moments can be had, but not preserved, except in memory. LLAP”.  Nimoy’s cremains were interred in Hillside Memorial Park in Culver City.  His funeral service was attended by nearly 300 family members, friends and former colleagues, as well as Zachary Quinto, Chris Pine, and J. J. Abrams.  William Shatner could not attend, but he was represented by his daughters.  On June 2, 2015, an asteroid, discovered in 1988, was named 4864 Nimoy in his honor.  Other notable Final Footprints at Hillside Memorial include; Jack Benny, Milton Berle, Cyd Charisse, Lorne Greene, Moe Howard, Al Jolson, Michael Landon, Suzanne Pleshette, Dinah Shore, Lupita Tovar, and Shelley Winters.

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Day in History 26 February – Jimmie Lee Jackson – Bukka White

Posted on 29 FebamMon, 26 Feb 2024 00:33:00 -06002024-02-26T00:33:00-06:0012 2011 by MacGregor

#RIP #OTD in 1965 Baptist church deacon, African American civil rights activist Jimmie Lee Jackson was beaten by troopers and fatally shot while participating in a peaceful voting rights march in Marion, Alabama, at the age of 26. Heard Cemetery, Marion, Alabama

On this day in 1977, delta blues guitarist and singer, Bukka White, died from cancer in Memphis, Tennessee at the age of 70.  Born Booker T. Washington White on 12 November 1909 between Aberdeen and Houston, Washington.  “Bukka” was not a nickname, but a phonetic misspelling of White’s given name Booker, by his second (1937) record label (Vocalion).  White himself disliked the spelling “Bukka” and preferred to be called Booker.  White was a cousin of B.B. King, and gave him a Stella guitar, King’s first guitar.  In my opinion, his best songs are; “Shake ’em on Down”, “Po’ Boy”, “Fixin’ to Die Blues” and “Parchman Farm Blues”. 

The Final Footprint – White is interred in New Park Cemetery in Memphis, Tennessee.  His grave is marked by an individual granite marker with the epitaph; LOVED BY ALL.

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On this day 25 February – Thomas Moore – Grace Metalious – Elijah Muhammad – Tennessee Williams – Bill Paxton

Posted on 29 FebamSun, 25 Feb 2024 00:48:00 -06002024-02-25T00:48:00-06:0012 2011 by MacGregor

Thomas_Moore_from_NPGOn this day in 1852, poet, singer, songwriter, and entertainer Thomas Moore died being cared for by his wife at Sloperton Cottage, Bromham, Wiltshire, England at the age of 72.  Born at 12 Aungier Street in Dublin, over his father’s grocery shop, his father being from the Kerry Gaeltacht and his mother, Anastasia Codd, from Wexford.  Perhaps best remembered for the lyrics of “The Minstrel Boy” and “The Last Rose of Summer”.  He was responsible, with John Murray, for burning Lord Byron‘s memoirs after his death, at the urging of Byron’s family.  In his lifetime he was often referred to as Anacreon Moore.  Moore married an actress, Elizabeth “Bessy” Dyke.  Moore is often considered Ireland’s National Bard.


The Final Footprint – Moore is entombed at St. Nicholas churchyard, Bromham, within view of his cottage-home, beside his daughter Anastasia.

#RIP #OTD in 1964 author (Peyton Place) Grace Metalious died from cirrhosis of the liver in Boston aged 39. Smith Meeting House Cemetery, Gilmanton, New Hampshire
Elijah Muhammad

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Muhammad speaking in 1964.

On this day in 1975, religious leader Elijah Muhammad died in Mercy Hospital in Chicago of congestive heart failure at age 77. Born Elijah Robert Poole in Sandersville, Georgia on October 7, 1897. He led the Nation of Islam (NOI) from 1934 until his death in 1975. He was a mentor to Malcolm X, Louis Farrakhan, Muhammad Ali, as well as his own son, Warith Deen Mohammed.

Elijah married Clara Muhammad in Georgia in 1917, with whom he had eight children. Elijah also had three children with Lucille Rosary Muhammad, one child with Evelyn Muhammad, and four children with Tynnetta Muhammad. He also fathered several children from other relationships.

GLENWOOD, IL – the grave of Nation of Islam leader Hon. Elijah Muhammed at Mount Glenwood Memory Gardens cemetery

The Final Footprint

He is buried at Mount Glenwood Memory Gardens (South), Glenwood, Illinois.

Tennessee_Williams_NYWTSOn this day in 1983, playwright, two-time Pulitzer Prize winner, Tony winner, Tennessee Williams, died from an overdose of barbiturates in his suite at the Hotel Elysée in New York City at the age of 71.  Born Thomas Lanier Williams on 26 March 1911 in Columbus, Mississippi.  Oh my, where to begin.  Clearly one of my favorite writers.  If I were suddenly limited to having one book, I would probably choose a book of his collected plays.  In my opinion, no one ever wrote better dialogue.  Every year on his birthday I read one of his plays.  Williams moved from St. Louis to New Orleans in 1939 and changed his first name to “Tennessee”, his father’s birthplace.  He won the Pulitzer Prize for Drama for A Streetcar Named Desire in 1948 and for Cat on a Hot Tin Roof in 1955.  His 1952 play The Rose Tattoo received the Tony Award for best play.  His play The Glass Menagerie was adapted into a film in 1950 starring Jane Wyman and Kirk Douglas.  A Streetcar Named Desire was adapted into a film in 1951 starring Vivien Leigh, Kim Hunter, Marlon Brando and Karl Malden.  The film was nominated for 12 awards and won four at the 24th Academy Awards; Actress in a Leading Role (Leigh), Actor in a Supporting Role (Malden), Actress in a Supporting Role (Hunter) and Art Direction.  Cat on a Hot Tin Roof was adapted into a film in 1958 starring Elizabeth Taylor and Paul Newman.  Williams said:  “A high station in life is earned by the gallantry with which appalling experiences are survived with grace.”  And:  “Make voyages.  Attempt them.  There’s nothing else.” 

The Final Footprint – He wrote in his will in 1972:

I, Thomas Lanier (Tennessee) Williams, being in sound mind upon this subject, and having declared this wish repeatedly to my close friends-do hereby state my desire to be buried at sea. More specifically, I wish to be buried at sea at as close a possible point as the American poet Hart Crane died by choice in the sea; this would be ascrnatible [sic], this geographic point, by the various books (biographical) upon his life and death. I wish to be sewn up in a canvas sack and dropped overboard, as stated above, as close as possible to where Hart Crane was given by himself to the great mother of life which is the sea: the Caribbean, specifically, if that fits the geography of his death. Otherwise—whereever fits it [sic].

However, his brother Dakin Williams arranged for him to be buried at the Roman Catholic Calvary Cemetery in St. Louis, Missouri, where their mother is buried.  His grave is marked with an upright granite marker engraved; “The violets in the mountains have broken the rocks!” Camino Real.  The quote is from his play Camino Real (1953).  Another notable Final Footprint at Calvary is Dred Scott.

Bill Paxton

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Paxton in April 2014

On this day in 2017, actor and director Bill Paxton died at the age of 61 from a stroke, precipitated by complications after a heart valve and aorta surgery in Los Angeles. Born William Paxton in Fort Worth, Texas on May 17, 1955. He appeared in films such as The Terminator (1984), Weird Science (1985), Aliens (1986), Predator 2 (1990), Tombstone (1993), True Lies (1994), Apollo 13 (1995), Twister (1996), Titanic (1997), U-571 (2000), Vertical Limit (2000), Edge of Tomorrow (2014), and Nightcrawler (2014). He also starred in the HBO drama series Big Love (2006–2011), earning three Golden Globe Award nominations during the show’s run. He was nominated for a Primetime Emmy Award and a Screen Actors Guild Award for portraying Randall McCoy in the History channel miniseries Hatfields & McCoys (2012). Paxton’s final film appearance was in The Circle (2017), released two months after his death.

  

Paxton (the child seen raised above the crowd) before JFK emerges from Hotel Texas on November 22, 1963

Paxton at the Dallas International Film Festival, 2010

Paxton was married to Kelly Rowan from 1979 to 1980. In 1987, he married Louise Newbury.

The Final Footprint 

A representative for the family released the following statement to the press on February 26:

He is interred in Forest Lawn Memorial Park Hollywood Hills. Other notable final footprints at Hollywood Hills include; Gene Autry, David Carradine, Scatman Crothers, Bette Davis, Sandra Dee, Ronnie James Dio, Michael Clarke Duncan, Carrie Fisher, Bobby Fuller, Andy Gibb, Michael Hutchence, Jill Ireland, Al Jarreau, Lemmy Kilmister, Jack LaLanne, Nicolette Larsen, Liberace, Strother Martin, Ricky Nelson, Brock Peters, Freddie Prinze, Lou Rawls, John Ritter, Debbie Reynolds, Telly Savalas, Lee Van Cleef, Paul Walker, and Jack Webb.

Upon learning of his death, a number of storm chasers paid tribute to his Twister role by spelling out his initials via the Spotter Network

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Day in History 24 February – Johnnie Ray – Webb Pierce – Dinah Shore – Don Knotts – Harold Ramis

Posted on 29 FebamSat, 24 Feb 2024 00:27:00 -06002024-02-24T00:27:00-06:0012 2011 by MacGregor

#RIP #OTD in 1990 singer (“Cry”, “The Little White Cloud That Cried”), songwriter, pianist, pioneering figure in the development of rock and roll, Johnnie Ray died from liver failure at Cedars-Sinai, Los Angeles, aged 63. Hopewell Cemetery near Hopewell, Oregon

#RIP #OTD in 1991 honky-tonk vocalist (“In the Jailhouse Now”, “There Stands the Glass”, “Wondering”), songwriter (“I Ain’t Never”, “I Don’t Care”) and guitarist, Webb Pierce died from pancreatic cancer in Nashville, aged 69. Woodlawn Memorial Park Cemetery in Nashville

On this day in 1994, singer, actress, and television personality Dinah Shore died from ovarian cancer at her home in Beverly Hills, aged 77. Born Fannye Rose Shore on February 29, 1916 in . She was the top-charting female vocalist of the 1940s and achieved success a decade later, in television, mainly as hostess of a series of variety programs for Chevrolet.

After failing singing auditions for the bands of Benny Goodman, and both Jimmy and Tommy Dorsey, Shore struck out on her own to become the first singer of her era to achieve solo success. She had a string of 80 charted popular hits, spanning 1940–1957, and after appearing in a handful of feature films, she went on to a four-decade career in American television, starring in her own music and variety shows from 1951 through 1963 and hosting two talk shows in the 1970s.

Shore, who played golf, was a longtime supporter of women’s professional golf. In 1972, she helped found the Colgate Dinah Shore Golf Tournament, which in its current identity as the ANA Inspiration, is one of the five major golf tournaments on the LPGA Tour. The tournament is held each spring at Mission Hills Country Club, near Shore’s former home in Rancho Mirage, California. Shore was the first female member of the Hillcrest Country Club in Los Angeles.

Shore was married to actor George Montgomery from 1943 to 1962. After her divorce from Montgomery, she briefly married Maurice Smith. Romances of the later 1960s involved comedian Dick Martin, singer Eddie Fisher, and actor Rod Taylo. In the early 1970s, Shore had a long romance with actor Burt Reynolds, who was 20 years her junior.

The Final Footprint

She was cremated the day of her death. Some of her cremains were inurned in two memorial sites: the Hillside Memorial Park Cemetery in Culver City, California, and Forest Lawn Cemetery (Cathedral City). Other cremains went to relatives.

In both Cathedral City and Rancho Mirage, California, streets are named after her. Her hometown of Winchester, Tennessee, honored her with Dinah Shore Boulevard. In 1996, a Golden Palm Star on the Palm Springs Walk of Stars was dedicated to her. Other notable final footprints at Hillside Memorial include; Jack Benny, Milton Berle, Cyd Charisse, Moe Howard, Al Jolson, Michael Landon, Leonard Nimoy, Lupita Tovar, and Shelley Winters. Other notable final footprints at Forest Lawn Cathedral City include; Rock Hudson, Jerry Vale, Nancy Wilson, and Jane Wyman.

On this day in 2006, comedic actor, Don Knotts, died at the Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles, California from pulmonary and respiratory complications related to lung cancer at the age of 81.  Born Jesse Donald Knotts on 21 July 1924 in Morgantown, West Virginia.  Perhaps best known for his portrayal of Barney Fife on the 1960’s television sitcom The Andy Griffith Show, a role which earned him five Emmy Awards. He also played landlord Ralph Furley on the 1970’s television sitcom Three’s Company.  The Andy Griffith Show was televised by CBS between 3 October 1960 and 1 April 1968.  Andy Griffith portrayed a widowed sheriff in the fictional small town of Mayberry, North Carolina.  In addition to the character Fife, the show featured his spinster aunt and housekeeper, Aunt Bee (Frances Bavier), and his young son, Opie (Ron Howard, billed as Ronny).  The show was a major hit, never placing lower than seventh in the Nielsen ratings and ending its final season at number one and spawned a spin-off series, Gomer Pyle, U.S.M.C. (1964), a sequel series, Mayberry R.F.D. (1968), and a reunion telemovie, Return to Mayberry (1986).  Reruns currently air across the United States, and the complete series is available on DVD.  The opening theme song, “The Fishin’ Hole”, was composed by Earle Hagen.  Rare is the person who has not whistled that tune.  Knotts and Griffith formed a lifelong friendship.  Knotts was married three times; Kathryn Metz 1(947–1964 divorce); Loralee Czuchna (1974–1983 divorce); and Frances Yarborough from (2002-2006 his death).  He graduated from the University of West Virginia. 

The Final Footprint – Knotts is interred at Pierce Brothers Westwood Village Memorial Park and Mortuary ( a Dignity Memorial property).  His grave is marked by a montage flat bronze on granite marker with the inscription; HE SAW THE POIGNANCY IN PEOPLE’S PRIDE AND PAIN AND TURNED IT INTO SOMETHING HILARIOUS AND ENDEARING.  His statue stands in a memorial park on Don Knotts Boulevard in Morgantown.  Other notable final footprints at Westwood include; Ray Bradbury, Sammy Cahn, Truman Capote, James Coburn, Rodney Dangerfield, Hugh Hefner, Janet Leigh, Farrah Fawcett, Brian Keith, Burt Lancaster, Peter Lawford, Peggy Lee, Jack Lemmon, Karl Malden, Dean Martin, Walter Mathau, Marilyn Monroe, Carroll O’Connor, Roy Orbison, George C. Scott, Dorothy Stratten, Billy Wilder, Natalie Wood and Frank Zappa.

HaroldRamisOct2009On this day in 2012, actor, director and writer Harold Ramis died from complications from autoimmune inflammatory vasculitis at his home on Chicago’s North Shore, at age 69.  Born Harold Allen Ramis on 21 November 1944 in Chicago.  Perhaps his best-known film acting roles are as Egon Spengler in Ghostbusters (1984) and Russell Ziskey in Stripes (1981); he also co-wrote both films.  As a writer-director, his films include the comedies Caddyshack (1980), National Lampoon’s Vacation (1983), Groundhog Day (1993) and Analyze This (1999).  Ramis was the original head writer of the television series SCTV, on which he also performed, and one of three screenwriters of the film National Lampoon’s Animal House (1978).  His films have influenced subsequent generations of comedians and comedy writers.  Ramis was married twice; Anne Plotkin (1967 – 1984 separated, later divorced) and Erica Mann (1989 – 2014 his death). 

The Final Footprint – A private funeral was held for Ramis with family, friends, and several collaborators in attendance including Dan Aykroyd, Chevy Chase, Eugene Levy, Dave Thomas, and John Belushi’s widow, Judith Jacklin Belushi.  Ramis is interred at Shalom Memorial Park in Arlington Heights.

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Day in History 23 February – John Keats – Edward Elgar – Stan Laurel – Katherine Helmond

Posted on 29 FebamFri, 23 Feb 2024 00:12:00 -06002024-02-23T00:12:00-06:0012 2011 by MacGregor

Portrait by William Hilton, National Portrait Gallery, London

On this day in 1821, English Romantic poet, John Keats, died in a villa on the Spanish Steps in Rome, today the Keats-Shelley Memorial House museum, at the age of 25 from tuberculosis.  Born on 31 October 1795 in central London.  Keats, Lord Byron and Percy Bysshe Shelley were the key figures in the second generation of the Romantic movement, even though his work had been in publication for only four years before his death.  After his death, his reputation grew to the extent that by the end of the 19th century, he had become one of the most beloved of all English poets.  Keats has had a significant influence on a diverse range of later poets and writers.  The poetry of Keats is characterized by sensual imagery.  His poems and letters are some of the most popular and most analyzed in English literature.  Certainly, one of my favorite poets.  His great, unconsummated love was Fanny Brawne.  Keats wrote her hundreds of notes and letters.  He wrote to her; “I have two luxuries to brood over in my walks; …your loveliness, and the hour of my death“.   And again; “My love has made me selfish. I cannot exist without you — I am forgetful of every thing but seeing you again — my Life seems to stop there — I see no further. You have absorb’d me. I have a sensation at the present moment as though I was dissolving — I should be exquisitely miserable without the hope of soon seeing you. […] I have been astonished that Men could die Martyrs for religion — I have shudder’d at it — I shudder no more — I could be martyr’d for my Religion — Love is my religion — I could die for that — I could die for you.” (Letter, 13 October 1819).  My favorite Keats poem is La Belle Dame sans Merci (The Beautiful Lady without Pity) where love and death both stalk. 

The Final Footprint – Keats is interred in the Protestant Cemetery (Italian: Cimitero protestante), officially called the Cimitero acattolico (“Non-Catholic Cemetery”) and often referred to as the Cimitero degli Inglesi (“Englishmen’s Cemetery”), a cemetery in Rome, located near Porta San Paolo.  Shelley’s cremated remains are interred there as well.   Keats’ last request was to be placed under a unnamed tombstone which contained only the words (in pentameter), “Here lies one whose name was writ in water.”  His friends, Joseph Severn and Charles Armitage Brown, erected the stone, which under a relief of a lyre with broken strings, contains the epitaph:  “This Grave / contains all that was Mortal / of a / Young English Poet / Who / on his Death Bed, in the Bitterness of his Heart / at the Malicious Power of his Enemies / Desired / these Words to be / engraven on his Tomb Stone: / Here lies One / Whose Name was writ in Water. 24 February 1821″

#RIP #OTD in 1934 composer (Enigma Variations, Pomp and Circumstance Marches, The Dream of Gerontius) Edward Elgar died of colorectal cancer in Worcester, Worcestershire, England, aged 76. Interred next to his wife Caroline at St Wulstan’s Roman Catholic Church in Little Malvern

#RIP #OTD in 1965 comic actor, writer, director, one half of the comedy duo Laurel and Hardy, Stan Laurel died from a heart attack in Santa Monica, aged 74. Forest Lawn–Hollywood Hills Cemetery

#RIP #OTD in 2019 actress (Jessica Tate on the sitcom Soap) Katherine Helmond died from complications of Alzheimer’s disease at her home in Los Angeles, aged 89. Cremation

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