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22
Nov
TRAGEDY STRUCK IN TEXAS ON THIS DAY IN 1963
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21
Nov
‘HALLOWEEN’ MOVIE ACTOR IS DEAD AT 85
Actor James Winburn, who played Michael Myers in the original
1978 ‘Halloween’ film, has died aged 85. James – also a famed
Hollywood stuntman – is believed to have passed over the
weekend from an undisclosed health issue, but his passing
only emerged on Monday.
17
Nov
HISTORY WAS MADE ON THIS DAY
COMILLE BOHANNON
Film director Martin Charles Scorsese is 80 years old today.
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16
Nov
‘HOGAN’S HEROES’ ACTOR HAS DIED AT 96
(Hollywood Reporter) – Longtime French actor, singer and
Holocaust survivor Robert Clary, known for his lead role in
"Hogan’s Heroes," has died.
His granddaughter Kim Wright said Clary died Wednesday
morning in his Los Angeles home.
Clary — named Robert Max Widerman at birth — was born
March 1, 1926, in France and forced into internment in a Nazi concentration camp as a child. At age 27, he moved to the
United States to pursue his career.
Clary is most notable for his role as Corporal Louis LeBeau
on the World War II-centered sitcom "Hogan’s Heroes." Before
his death, Clary was the last living cast member from the series’
original principal cast.
Clary published a memoir, From the Holocaust to Hogan’s
Heroes: The Autobiography of Robert Clary, in 2001.
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13
Nov
MYSTERIOUS CAR CRASH ON THIS DAY
On November 13, 1974, 28-year-old Karen Silkwood was killed
in a car accident near Crescent, Oklahoma, north of Oklahoma
City. Silkwood worked as a technician at a plutonium plant
operated by the Kerr-McGee Corporation, and she had been
critical of the plant’s health and safety procedures.
In September, she had complained to the Atomic Energy
Commission about unsafe conditions at the plant (a week
before her death, plant monitors had found that she was
contaminated with radioactivity herself), and the night she
died, she was on her way to a meeting with a union rep and
a reporter for The New York Times, reportedly with a folder full
of documents that proved that Kerr-McGee was acting negligently
when it came to worker safety at the plant. However, no such
folder was found in the wreckage of her car, lending credence to
the theory that someone had forced her off the road to prevent her
from telling what she knew.
The story was chronicled in Mike Nichols‘s 1983
Academy Award nominated film Silkwood in
which she was portrayed by Meryl Streep.
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