Fred Foy -- introductory voice for The Lone Ranger.
Gerry Rafferty -- singer/songwriter
...Before this shooting I had some belief that representative Gabrielle Giffords had a chance to become President of the United States.
Dick Winters, a real person in the real Band of Brothers.
Col. William M. Bower, last surviving pilot of the Doolittle raid upon Japan.
R. Sargent Shriver, first head of the Peace Corps
Margaret Whiting, singer from the '40s and '50s.
Susannah York, actress
Frank Bessac, OSS agent and anthropologist
Ric Hesse, Chicago restaurateur
Jack LaLanne, fitness guru. As I said one time, "he looks all 60 of his 90 years".*
Pete Postlethwaite, British actor
Anna Yablonska, very young and promising Ukrainian poet -- terrorist attack.*
Daniel Bell -- neo-conservative intellectual*
Tura Satana, actress
Gary Moore (not the game-show host!), Northern Irish musician
Chuck Tanner, baseball manager*
Blanche Honeggger Moyse, Swiss-born conductor.* (no obvious relation to the Swiss composer Arthur Honegger)
George Shearing, British jazz pianist
Kenneth Mars, actor.
Cecil Kaiser, then believed the oldest former player of the Negro (baseball) League*
Ronald Hickman, race car driver and inventor of the Black & Decker Workmate*
Duke Snider, Hall of Fame baseball player*
Frank Buckles, last American WWI veteran
Jane Russell, actress
John Lounge, astronaut*
Mike DeStefano, comedian
David Broder, journalist
Owen Laster, literary agent
Hugh Martin, composer *
Leslie Collier, improved storage for smallpox vaccines*
Owsley Stanley, chemist
former Secretary of State Warren Christopher
Elizabeth Taylor, British-American actress
Geraldine Ferraro, 1984 Democratic nominee for Vice-President
Diana Wynne Jones, actress
Farley Granger, actor*
Paul Baran, Internet pioneer
Baruch Samuel Bloomberg, enemy of infectious diseases*
Sidney Lumet, director
William Donald Schaefer, huge figure in Maryland politics*
Grete Waltz, marathon runner -- female pioneer
Madeleine Pugh, TV writer
Tran Le Xuan, a/k/a Madame Nhu (the Lady Macbeth of the Republic of Vietnam?)
Phoebe Snow, singer
Enrique Arancibia, murderer and kidnapping enforcer of the brutal Pinochet dictatorship in Chile, stabbed to death* (Roast in Hell!)
Osama bin Laden (Roast in Hell!)
Robert W. Finzel --Chicago artist*
Jackie Cooper, actor
Charles Choules, last male WWI veteran
Seve Ballesteros, Spanish golfer*
Robert DeShaun "Tractor" Traylor -- professional basketball player who had shady eligibility while in college*
Bernard Greenhouse, cellist (Beaux Arts Trio)*
Thomas Fulton, physicist
Harmon Killibrew, Hall of Fame slugger*
Jeff Conaway, actor
Gil Scott-Heron, rap musician
former Texas Governor Bill Clements
Osamu Maruoka, Japanese terrorist hijacker (Japanese Red Army)*
Jack "Doctor Death" Kevorkian*
James Arness, actor
Rector Maksud Ibnugadzharovich Sadikov, Dagestani peace-seeker -- suspicious , violent circumstances*
John Hospers -- who won only sixteen fewer electoral votes than George McGovern in 1972*
Gerry Rafferty -- singer/songwriter
...Before this shooting I had some belief that representative Gabrielle Giffords had a chance to become President of the United States.
Quote:The horrific shooting of U.S. Rep. Gabrielle Giffords and others Saturday is hard enough to comprehend, even without knowing that one of the victims was a little girl.
Among the six killed and 13 injured reportedly in Tucson, Ariz. was 9-year-old third-grader Christina-Taylor Green*. Green had two personal connections to Major League Baseball; She was a daughter of Los Angeles Dodgers scout John Green and a granddaughter of former Philadelphia Phillies manager Dallas Green.
From the portrait painted in the Arizona Daily Star, she seemed like a neat little girl all on her own:
• Already a good speaker, her father said, Green recently was elected to the student council at her elementary school.
• Green told her parents she wanted to attend Penn State and make a career helping those less fortunate.
• She loved animals and dancing — especially ballet — along with hip-hop and jazz music.
• She was athletic, too; Green liked to go swimming with her 11-year-old brother, also named Dallas. She also was the only girl on her Little League baseball team. She played second base.
Her grandfather, 76, managed the Phillies when they won the World Series in 1980. He also managed the Yankees and Mets and was general manager of the Chicago Cubs.
Dodgers owner Frank McCourt released a statement:
"We lost a member of the Dodgers family today. The entire Dodgers organization is mourning the death of John's daughter Christina, and will do everything we can to support John, his wife Roxana and their son Dallas in the aftermath of this senseless tragedy. I spoke with John earlier today and expressed condolences on behalf of the entire Dodgers organization."
A budding political scientist, the young girl was there to meet Giffords when Jared Loughner allegedly opened fire.
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Dick Winters, a real person in the real Band of Brothers.
Col. William M. Bower, last surviving pilot of the Doolittle raid upon Japan.
R. Sargent Shriver, first head of the Peace Corps
Margaret Whiting, singer from the '40s and '50s.
Susannah York, actress
Frank Bessac, OSS agent and anthropologist
Ric Hesse, Chicago restaurateur
Jack LaLanne, fitness guru. As I said one time, "he looks all 60 of his 90 years".*
Pete Postlethwaite, British actor
Anna Yablonska, very young and promising Ukrainian poet -- terrorist attack.*
Daniel Bell -- neo-conservative intellectual*
Tura Satana, actress
Gary Moore (not the game-show host!), Northern Irish musician
Chuck Tanner, baseball manager*
Blanche Honeggger Moyse, Swiss-born conductor.* (no obvious relation to the Swiss composer Arthur Honegger)
George Shearing, British jazz pianist
Kenneth Mars, actor.
Cecil Kaiser, then believed the oldest former player of the Negro (baseball) League*
Ronald Hickman, race car driver and inventor of the Black & Decker Workmate*
Duke Snider, Hall of Fame baseball player*
Frank Buckles, last American WWI veteran
Jane Russell, actress
John Lounge, astronaut*
Mike DeStefano, comedian
David Broder, journalist
Owen Laster, literary agent
Hugh Martin, composer *
Leslie Collier, improved storage for smallpox vaccines*
Owsley Stanley, chemist
former Secretary of State Warren Christopher
Elizabeth Taylor, British-American actress
Geraldine Ferraro, 1984 Democratic nominee for Vice-President
Diana Wynne Jones, actress
Farley Granger, actor*
Paul Baran, Internet pioneer
Baruch Samuel Bloomberg, enemy of infectious diseases*
Sidney Lumet, director
William Donald Schaefer, huge figure in Maryland politics*
Grete Waltz, marathon runner -- female pioneer
Madeleine Pugh, TV writer
Tran Le Xuan, a/k/a Madame Nhu (the Lady Macbeth of the Republic of Vietnam?)
Phoebe Snow, singer
Enrique Arancibia, murderer and kidnapping enforcer of the brutal Pinochet dictatorship in Chile, stabbed to death* (Roast in Hell!)
Osama bin Laden (Roast in Hell!)
Robert W. Finzel --Chicago artist*
Jackie Cooper, actor
Charles Choules, last male WWI veteran
Seve Ballesteros, Spanish golfer*
Robert DeShaun "Tractor" Traylor -- professional basketball player who had shady eligibility while in college*
Bernard Greenhouse, cellist (Beaux Arts Trio)*
Thomas Fulton, physicist
Harmon Killibrew, Hall of Fame slugger*
Jeff Conaway, actor
Gil Scott-Heron, rap musician
former Texas Governor Bill Clements
Osamu Maruoka, Japanese terrorist hijacker (Japanese Red Army)*
Jack "Doctor Death" Kevorkian*
James Arness, actor
Rector Maksud Ibnugadzharovich Sadikov, Dagestani peace-seeker -- suspicious , violent circumstances*
John Hospers -- who won only sixteen fewer electoral votes than George McGovern in 1972*
The ideal subject of totalitarian rule is not the convinced Nazi or the dedicated Communist but instead the people for whom the distinction between fact and fiction, true and false, no longer exists -- Hannah Arendt.