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Dec 26, 2017 · Jim Nabors, actor and singer, 87. (June 12, 1930 — Nov. 30, 2017) Best known for his role as Gomer Pyle on two 1960s television sitcoms, actor Jim Nabors had many highlights over his career. In the early 1960s he transformed into the goofy and endearing character Gomer Pyle on The Andy Griffith Show, and he proved so popular that Nabors ...
Longtime TV director/producer Hal Tulchin directed the footage that was filmed of the Harlem Cultural Festival. Before he died in 2017, at the age of 90, Tulchin signed over the rights to the footage to “Summer of Soul” producers Robert Fyvolent and David Dinerstein.
Dec 27, 2017 · Joan Lee, wife of Marvel comics legend Stan Lee, died on July 6. She was 93. A spokesperson for the family confirmed the news in a statement to ET, sharing, "Joan Lee passed away this morning ...
Jan 6, 2017 · Herman Shaw was a 30-year-old cotton farmer in Tuskegee, Alabama, when he saw a flyer offering free medical care by the U.S. government. This was back in 1932 and the Great Depression was bearing down hard on the already poor black farmers in the Deep South. Shaw jumped at what he said seemed like a godsend at the time.
May 9, 2019 · Herman and his lawyers had argued he was sleepwalking when he stabbed Preston more than 20 times on the morning of March 25, 2017, and should be found not guilty by reason of insanity.
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Herman Webster Mudgett was born in Gilmanton, N.H., on May 16, 1861, a month after the Civil Warbroke out. His parents, Levi Horton Mudgett and Theodate Page Price, were devout Methodists and strict disciplinarians. Levi, a farmer and a violent alcoholic, beat his children and locked them in the attic when they misbehaved. Herman was a mama’s boy w...
Herman Mudgett developed courtly manners, a dapper wardrobe and a winning way with women. He graduated high school at 16, and got a job as a teacher in Alton, N.H. There he met Clara Lovering, whose father represented the district in the New Hampshire state Legislature. Clara was intensely attracted to Herman, but bothered by his insistence on sex....
Herman Mudgett graduated in 1884 and set out to find a place to practice. He tried Portland, Maine, where he got another sales job. In his travels he discovered Mooers Forks, N.Y., where he was hired as a grade school principal. He corresponded with Clara by mail, and he visited her several times. He contributed little to support his family. In Moo...
Meanwhile, Herman Mudgett was working insurance scams around the country. According to the Boston Globe, “On one occasion Holmes insured his own life for $20,000. Then he went to a hotel in Rhode Island, wearing a beard. He got a body, took it two miles from the hotel, cut the head off, and buried the rest. He shaved, went to the hotel, registered ...
In early October 1894, Clara Mudgett got a typewritten letter that her husband sent to his brother in Jamaica Plain from Indianapolis. He explained he was in a train wreck that fractured his skull, then confined in a Minneapolis hospital where he completely forgot who he was. He gradually came to his senses and worked so he could earn enough to com...
At noon on Monday, Nov. 5, 1894, Herman Mudgett arrived in Tilton by train and found out where Clara and 14-year-old Robert were living. ‘The home-coming was a joyous one for the wife,’ reported the Globe. “The wife hugged and kissed the returned wanderer, wept over his narrow escape from death and long illness, desiring no further explanation of h...
Dec 20, 2017 · Chandler, IN. – Gregory Herman Stevens, 56, of Chandler, Indiana passed away on December 17, 2017 at St. Vincent Hospital in Evansville, Indiana. Greg was born in Evansville, Indiana on October...
