Neil Edward Goldschmidt (June 16, 1940 – June 12, 2024)
    
    
    
    
   

PORTLAND Ore. (KPTV) – Former Oregon governor, Portland
Mayor and admitted sexual abuser Neil Goldschmidt has
died at age 83, according to his family. The reported cause
was heart failure.

Prior to leaving the public eye, Goldschmidt admitted to sexually
abusing a minor.

The portrait of former Governor Neil Goldschmidt was
removed from the Legislative Library on the fourth floor
of the Oregon State Capitol in 2011.

Nicole Brown Simpson, famous football player O.J. Simpson’s
ex-wife, and her friend Ron Goldman were brutally stabbed to
death outside Nicole’s home in Brentwood, California, in what
quickly became one of the most highly publicized trials of the
century.

With overwhelming evidence against him, including a prior
record of domestic violence towards Brown, O.J. Simpson
became the chief suspect.

Although he had agreed to turn himself in, Simpson escaped
with friend A.C. Cowlings in his white Ford Bronco on June 17.

TIM MAGUIRE

     
     
     
 
    
    
    
    
 John Wayne (Marion Robert Morrison)
(May 26, 1907 – June 11, 1979)

Ray Charles Robinson Sr.
(September 23, 1930 – June 10, 2004)

Ray Charles was an singer, songwriter and pianist. He is regarded
as one of the most iconic and influential musicians in history,
and was often referred to by contemporaries as "The Genius."

Among friends and fellow musicians he preferred being called
"Brother Ray." Charles was blinded during childhood, possibly
due to glaucoma.    
   
Ray Charles died on June 10, 2004, at age 73, of complications
resulting from liver failure at his home in Beverly Hills, California.

Statue in Ray Charles Plaza in Albany, Georgia.

In Washington, D.C. on June 9, 1893, the interior of ramshackle
Ford’s Theatre collapses, causing the deaths of 22 people.

The building—where President Lincoln was shot on April 14,
1865— houses hundreds of clerks employed by the War
Department’s Records and Pensions Division.      

An investigation determined the cause of the tragedy was a pier
that had given way during excavation in the basement for an
electric-light plant.

Abraham Lincoln (1809 – 1865)

A National Historic Site, Ford’s Theatre today.