Don Knotts on the live soap opera ‘Search for Tomorrow’
Don Knotts’ first role on television was on the CBS soap opera
Search for Tomorrow from 1953-54. His character was named
Wilbur Peterson, a neurotic guy who didn’t talk much. He would
only speak to one person, his sister. it was Don’s first and only
serious professional role.
Jesse Donald Knotts (July 21, 1924 – February 24, 2006)
Virginia Christine (Virginia Christine Ricketts)
(March 5, 1920 – July 24, 1996)
Stage, radio, film, television, and voice actress
Christine had along career as a character actress
in film and television, she is best remembered
as “Mrs. Olson” (or the “Folger’s Coffee Woman”)
in a string of television commercials for the coffee
company during the 1960’s and ‘70s. She died at
her Brentwood home of cardiovascular disease.
TIM MAGUIRE
Malcolm X (born Malcolm Little; May 19, 1925 – February 21, 1965)
Rush Hudson Limbaugh III (January 12, 1951 – February 17, 2021)
Limbaugh, a cigar and former cigarette smoker was diagnosed
with advanced lung cancer on January 20, 2020.
On February 4, 2020, the day after he announced that he had
advanced lung cancer, Limbaugh was a guest of President
Donald Trump at the 2020 State of the Union Address, where
he was presented with the Presidential Medal of Freedom
(above).
