ROSS SIMPSON
In the name of African American voting rights, 3,200 civil rights demonstrators in Alabama, led by Martin Luther King Jr., began
an historic march from Selma to Montgomery, the state’s capital. Federalized Alabama National Guardsmen and FBI agents were
on hand to provide safe passage for the march, which twice had
been turned back by Alabama state police at Selma’s Edmund
Pettus Bridge.
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ROSS SIMPSON
The Jerry Lewis and Dean Martin comedy team in 1950.
Jerry Lewis (Joseph Levitch)
(March 16, 1926 – August 20, 2017)
Jerry Lewis was a comedian, actor, singer and humanitarian
who was famously nicknamed "The King of Comedy", with a
career lasting over eight decades. He appeared in more than
60 motion pictures, starting in 1949 including sixteen Martin
and Lewis musical comedy films with Dean Martin, as his
partner.
MIKE GRACIA
A plane similar to the one in which Patsy Cline died.
A Kansas City resident named Mildred Keith snapped what
is believed to be one of the last photographs of the country music star.
ROSS SIMPSON
Jerry Lewis (Joseph Levitch)
(March 16, 1926 – August 20, 2017)
