(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)

 
   
  1995               

LOS ANGELES (TNND) — A Bible Robert Kardashian Sr. gave
his friend and client O.J. Simpson shortly after Simpson was
arrested in the mid-1990s recently sold at an auction for more
than $80,000.

According to Goldin Auctions, Kardashian signed the Bible 
and included a "heartfelt inscription" inside the book.

This book will help," Kardashian wrote. "God loves and he will speak to you with his words. Read this book everyday. God has a definite plan for your life. You are his child and he will use you again. I love you and God loves you."

Kardashian, who alongside Johnnie L. Cochran Jr., Peter Neufeld,
Robert Shapiro, and Robert Blasier, served as Simpson’s defense
team during the murder trial.

O.J. Simpson is surrounded by his defense attorneys, from
left, Johnnie L. Cochran Jr., Peter Neufeld, Robert Shapiro, Robert Kardashian, and Robert Blasier, seated at left, at
the close of defense arguments in his murder trial, Sept.
28, 1995, in Los Angeles.

Orenthal James Simpson (July 9, 1947 – April 10, 2024)

Actress Elizabeth MacGraw won a Golden Globe Award
for Most Promising Newcomer for her role in Goodbye,
Columbus (1969).

She then starred in Love Story (1970), for which she was
nominated for an Academy Award for Best Actress and
won a Golden Globe Award for Best Actress in a Motion
Picture – Drama.

1978

On April 1, 1945, after suffering the loss of 116 planes and
damage to three aircraft carriers, 50,000 U.S. combat troops,
under the command of Lieutenant General Simon B. Buckner
Jr., landed on the southwest coast of the Japanese island
of Okinawa, 350 miles south of Kyushu, the southern main
island of Japan.

Determined to seize Okinawa as a base of operations for
the army ground and air forces for a later assault on
mainland Japan, more than 1,300 ships converged
on the island, finally putting ashore 50,000 combat
troops.

Simon Bolivar Buckner Jr.
(18 July 1886 – 18 June 1945)

Buckner was among the casualties,
killed by enemy artillery fire just three
days before the Japanese surrender.

The 1952 film Okinawa starring Pat O’Brien, is one of several movies to depict this decisive episode in the history of the
war.

Fort Buckner is a small United States Army base located immediately south of Camp Foster, near Futenma, on
Okinawa, Japan.