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REMEMBERING ACTOR CHUCK CONNORS

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Kevin Joseph Aloysius "Chuck" Connors
(April 10, 1921 – November 10, 1992)

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Chuck Connors was an actor, writer, and professional
basketball and baseball player. He is one of only 13
athletes in the history of American professional sports
to have played in both
Major League Baseball (Brooklyn
Dodgers
1949, Chicago Cubs, 1951) and the National
Basketball
Association
(Boston Celtics 1947–48). With
a 40-year film and television career, he is best known for
his five-year role as Lucas McCain in the highly rated
ABC series The Rifleman (1958–63)

Connors died on November 10, 1992, at Cedars-Sinai
Medical
Center
in Los Angeles at the age of 71 of lung
cancer
.


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HISTORY WAS MADE ON THIS DAY

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TIM MAGUIRE

Alice Walker: Freedom Writer (Lerner Biographies): Lazo, Caroline:  9780822549604: Amazon.com: Books

The Color Purple By Alice Walker

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Author Alice Malsenior Tallulah-Kate Walker is 78 today.

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‘’BEATLEMANIA’’ ARRIVED ON THIS DAY IN 1964

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On February 7, 1964, Pan Am Yankee Clipper flight 101 from London Heathrow lands at New York’s Kennedy Airport—and “Beatlemania” arrived. It was the first visit to the United States by the Beatles, a
British rock-and-roll quartet that had just scored its first No. 1 U.S. 
hit six days before with “I Want to Hold Your Hand.”

At Kennedy, the “Fab Four”—dressed in mod suits and sporting their trademark pudding bowl haircuts—were greeted by 3,000 screaming
fans who caused a near riot when the boys stepped off their plane
and onto American soil.


Two days later, Paul McCartney, age 21, Ringo Starr, 23, John
Lennon
, 23, and George Harrison, 20, made their first appearance
on the Ed Sullivan Show.

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The Beatles 1st American press conference. 

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OREGON BORN ACTOR HAS DIED AT 81

This is why Howard Hesseman was uniquely qualified to play WKRP's Dr.  Johnny Fever

Howard Hesseman, WKRP in Cincinnati's Dr. Johnny Fever, dies at 81 - The  Globe and Mail
Howard Hesseman (February 27, 1940 – January 29, 2022) 


Hesseman played DJ John "
Dr. Johnny Fever" Caravella on
WKRP in Cincinnati, Captain Pete Lassard in Police Academy
2: Their First Assignment
, Sam Royer on One Day at a Time,
and schoolteacher Charlie Moore on Head of the Class. He 
died Saturday from complications of colon surgery in Los
Angeles,
California. Hesseman was born in Lebanon, Oregon.

Howard Hesseman, 'WKRP in Cincinnati' Star, Dead at 81 - Rolling Stone

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HISTORY WAS MADE ON THIS DAY

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The Path to Power by Robert A. Caro

LBJ died on his Hill Country Ranch in January 1973.

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Lyndon Baines Johnson (August 27, 1908 – January 22, 1973)

Johnson served as the 36th president of the United States
from 1963 to 1969.

He holds the distinction of being one of the few presidents
who served in all elected offices at the federal level.

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