MIKE  GRACIA    

   
Douglas MacArthur (26 January 1880 – 5 April 1964)

MacArthur died in Walter Reed Army Medical Center after
surgery on 5 April 1964, of primary biliary cholangitis at
age 84.

Just after 6 p.m. on April 4, 1968, Martin Luther King Jr.was fatally
shot while standing on the balcony outside his second-story
room at the Lorraine Motel in Memphis, Tennessee.

The civil rights leader was in Memphis to support a sanitation
workers’ strike and was on his way to dinner when a bullet
struck him in the jaw and severed his spinal cord.

(FOX NEWS) – Actor Val Kilmer, who starred in many high-
profile films, including "Top Gun," "Batman Forever" and
"Tombstone," died Tuesday (April 1).

The New York Times reported that Kilmer died of pneumonia.

Kilmer, who played Tom "Iceman" Kazansky in the original
"Top Gun" in 1986, died in Los Angeles, according to his
daughter, Mercedes Kilmer. 

In 2015, Kilmer was diagnosed with throat cancer. He
subsequently underwent a tracheal procedure that
damaged his vocal cords, leaving him with severe
difficulty speaking. He also underwent chemotherapy
and two tracheotomies.

Val Kilmer and Tom Cruise in Top Gun (1986)

Kurt Russell and Val Kilmer (1993)

 
   
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Dr. Kildare is an NBC medical drama television series which originally ran from September 28, 1961, until August 30,
1966.

(The Hollywood Reporter) – Richard Chamberlain died Saturday
night in Waimanalo, Hawaii, of complications following a stroke.
He was two days shy of his 91st birthday.

Shōgun is a 1980 historical drama miniseries
first broadcast on NBC over five nights
between September 15 and 19, 1980.

The Thorn Birds TV miniseries broadcast on ABC from
March 27 to 30, 1983.

Denis Arndt, the Tony Award-nominated actor whose many
onscreen roles included starring in "S.W.A.T."(2003) and
famously interrogating Sharon Stone in "Basic Instinct,"
(1992) has died.

According to an obituary published Wednesday, Arndt died
"peacefully in his bed" at his longtime cabin home in Ashland,
Oregon on Tuesday, March 25. 

Denis Arndt served in the Vietnam War as a United States
Army helicopter pilot, earning a Purple Heart and Medal of
Commendation

After the war, Arndt flew helicopters in Alaska for several
years before completing a degree at the University of
Washington.

He joined the Oregon Shakespeare Festival in Ashland,
Oregon where he completed 15 seasons and was a charter
member of Seattle‘s Intiman Theatre.