TIM MAGUIRE

    
 Lester William Polsfuss (June 9, 1915 – August 12, 2009), known
as Les Paul, was an American jazz, country, and blues guitarist, songwriter, luthier, and inventor. He was one of the pioneers of
the solid-body electric guitar, and his prototype, called the Log,
served as inspiration for the Gibson Les Paul.

In the 1950s, he and his wife, singer and guitarist Mary Ford,
recorded numerous records, selling millions of copies.
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James Earl Ray (above) an escaped American convict, was arrested 
in London, England, and charged with the assassination of African
American civil rights leader Martin Luther King Jr.

On April 4, 1968, in Memphis, Rev. King was fatally wounded by a
sniper’s bullet while standing on the balcony outside his second-
story room at the Motel Lorraine.

That evening, a Remington .30-06 hunting rifle was found on the
sidewalk beside a rooming house one block from the Lorraine
Motel. During the next several weeks, the rifle, eyewitness reports,
and fingerprints on the weapon all implicated a single suspect:
James Earl Ray.

Martin Luther King Jr. (1929 – 1968)

James Earl Ray (1928 – 1998)

Ray died on April 23, 1998, just 19 days after the 30th
Anniversary of King’s Assassination, at the age of 70,
at the Columbia Nashville Memorial Hospital in Madison,
Tennessee from complications related to kidney disease
and liver failure caused by hepatitis C.

George Orwell’s novel of a dystopian future, 1984, was
published on June 8, 1949. The novel’s all-seeing leader,
known as “Big Brother,” became a universal symbol for
intrusive government and oppressive bureaucracy.

George Orwell (Eric Arthur Blair)
(25 June 1903 – 21 January 1950)    
    

Rose Festival Parade, NW corner of 10th & Madison.  

The first parade, in 1907, was called the Rose Carnival, but
eventually came to be known as the Rose Festival Parade
and later still the Grand Floral Parade. The 1907 festival
also included an "electric parade" with illuminated floats. 

Portland Rose Festival  (1912-1914).

Grand Floral Parade in 1954.

On June 7, 1972, the production of ‘ Grease’ moved to the
Broadhurst Theatre on Broadway, and on November 21, it
moved to the Royale Theatre there, where it ran until
January 27, 1980. For the five final weeks of the run, the
show moved to the larger Majestic Theatre. By the time
It closed on April 13, 1980, it had run 3,388 performances.

The original Broadway cast included Barry Bostwick as
Danny, Carole Demas as Sandy.