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High Profile P.I. Jack Palladino died from head injuries sustained (was taken off life support) in a robbery at 76-
 
det107 said:
High Profile P.I. Jack Palladino died from head injuries sustained (was taken off life support) in a robbery at 76-
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https://worldnewsera.com/news/enter...no-dead-at-76-after-attempted-robbery-attack/
I wonder what he had on the Clintons

Famed P.I. Jack Palladino Dead at 76 After Attempted Robbery Attack

Ashleigh Durden3 hours ago
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5:11 PM PT — Jack’s attorney, Mel Honowitz, is remembering him as “a pillar of the legal and professional community.”


He adds … Jack “was a firm believer in due process, First Amendment rights, particularly freedom of speech and freedom of the press.”


Famed P.I. Jack Palladino has died from the grave injuries he suffered during an attempted robbery in his San Francisco neighborhood.


Palladino never regained consciousness after being attacked by 2 would-be robbers Friday and falling and hitting his head on the pavement. His attorney, Mel Honowitz, says Jack died Monday around noon after being taken off life support the day before.


As we reported … Jack’s family says he went outside Friday evening to snap photos of people he believed were making trouble in his neighborhood, and they attacked him and tried to steal his camera.


Palladino’s family says he refused to let go, but fell in the process. However, his photographs may have helped police track down the 2 suspects it arrested Sunday for his attack — 23-year-old Tyjone Flournoy and 24-year-old Lawrence Thomas.


Flournoy and Thomas were booked for attempted robbery and assault with a deadly weapon, but now that Palladino has died … they may be facing a felony murder charge.


Jack started his career as a P.I. in the ’70s, but became one of the premier names in the biz in the ’80s … and worked a bunch of high-profile cases in the ’90s.


Those included investigating the extra-marital affair allegations against Bill Clinton in 1992, the cause of death of Kurt Cobain in 1994, and repping a 14-year-old boy in his civil, molestation lawsuit against Michael Jackson.


Jack was 76.
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trampas said:
Hal Holbrook; dead at 95
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hal_Holbrook
Damn one of the great ones has left the building
arold Rowe Holbrook Jr. (February 17, 1925 – January 23, 2021) was an American actor, television director and writer. He first received critical acclaim in 1954 for a one-man stage show he developed, Mark Twain Tonight!, while studying at Denison University, performing as Mark Twain.[SUP][1][/SUP] He won the Tony Award for Best Actor in a Play in 1966 for his portrayal of Twain.[SUP][2][/SUP] Throughout his career, he won five Primetime Emmy Awards.[SUP][3][/SUP]

Holbrook made his film debut in Sidney Lumet's The Group (1966). He later gained international fame for his performance as Deep Throat in the 1976 film All the President's Men. He played Abraham Lincoln in the 1976 miniseries Lincoln and 1985 miniseries North and South. He has also appeared in such films as Julia (1977), The Fog (1980), Creepshow (1982), Wall Street (1987), The Firm (1993), Hercules (1997), and Men of Honor (2000).[SUP][4][/SUP][SUP][5][/SUP]

Holbrook's role as Ron Franz in Sean Penn's Into the Wild (2007) earned him both Academy Award and Screen Actors Guild Award nominations for Best Supporting Actor.[SUP][2][/SUP] Until Robert Duvall was nominated for an Academy Award in 2015, Holbrook was the oldest actor to receive a Best Supporting Actor nomination.[SUP][6][/SUP] In 2009, Holbrook received critical acclaim for his performance as recently retired farmer Abner Meecham in the independent film That Evening Sun.[SUP][7][/SUP]

In his later career, Holbrook appeared as Francis Preston Blair in Steven Spielberg's Lincoln (2012), provided his voice as Mayday in the Disney animated film Planes: Fire & Rescue (2014) and as Whizzer in Blackway (2015).[SUP][8][/SUP][SUP][9][/SUP]

As a television actor, Holbrook was known for his recurring role in and directing four episodes of Designing Women as Reese Watson, opposite his wife, Dixie Carter.[SUP][1][/SUP] Later in his career, he starred in minor roles in Sons of Anarchy, The Event, and Rectify.[SUP][5][/SUP] He guest-starred in many critically acclaimed television series such as NCIS, The West Wing, The Sopranos, ER, Bones, Grey's Anatomy, and Hawaii Five-0.[SUP][10][/SUP]

In 2003, Holbrook was honored with the National Humanities Medal by President George W. Bush.[SUP][11][/SUP]
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Christopher Plummer who won a Best Supporting Actor Oscar for "Beginnings" & was in the Sound of Music film dead at 91
 
det107 said:
Christopher Plummer who won a Best Supporting Actor Oscar for "Beginnings" & was in the Sound of Music film dead at 91
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I’ve never seen either of those movies. I just remember him as the dirty televangelist in Dragnet. :flipoff2:
 
det107 said:
Boxing Legend Leon Spinks dead at 67 from multiple cancers-
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leon_Spinks

Leon Spinks (July 11, 1953 – February 7, 2021) was an American professional boxer who competed from 1977 to 1995. In only his eighth professional fight, he won the undisputed heavyweight championship in 1978 after defeating Muhammad Ali in a split decision, in what was considered one of the biggest upsets in boxing history. Spinks was later stripped of the WBC title for facing Ali in an unapproved rematch seven months later, which he lost by unanimous decision.

Besides being heavyweight champion and his characteristic gap-toothed grin (due to losing two and later all four of his front teeth), Spinks gained notoriety for the disaster which befell his career following the loss to Ali.[SUP][2][/SUP] However, he did challenge once more for the WBC heavyweight title in 1981 (losing to Larry Holmes by TKO in the third round), and the WBA cruiserweight title in 1986 (losing to Dwight Muhammad Qawi by TKO in the sixth round).

As an amateur, Spinks won numerous medals in the light heavyweight division. The first was bronze at the inaugural 1974 World Championships, followed by silver at the 1975 Pan American Games, and gold at the 1976 Summer Olympics; the latter alongside his brother Michael Spinks, who won middleweight gold. Leon served in the United States Marine Corps from 1973 to 1976.

Spinks also had a brief career as a professional wrestler in the 1990s, working for Frontier Martial-Arts Wrestling (FMW) and holding the FMW Brass Knuckles Heavyweight Championship in 1992.[SUP][3][/SUP]
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shortbus4x4 said:
George Shultz, secretary of state under Reagan passed away at 100 yesterday.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Shultz

George Pratt Shultz (/ʃʊlts/; December 13, 1920 – February 6, 2021[SUP][1][/SUP]) was an American economist, statesman, and businessman. He served in various positions under three different Republican presidents and is one of only two people to have held four different Cabinet-level posts.[SUP][2][/SUP] Shultz played a major role in shaping the foreign policy of the Ronald Reagan administration. From 1974 to 1982, he was an executive of Bechtel Group, an engineering and services company.

Born in New York City, he graduated from Princeton University before serving in the United States Marine Corps during World War II. After the war, Shultz earned a Ph.D. in industrial economics from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). He taught at MIT from 1948 to 1957, taking a leave of absence in 1955 to take a position on President Dwight D. Eisenhower's Council of Economic Advisers. After serving as dean of the University of Chicago Graduate School of Business, he accepted President Richard Nixon's appointment as United States Secretary of Labor. In that position, he imposed the Philadelphia Plan on construction contractors who refused to accept black members, marking the first use of racial quotas by the federal government. In 1970, he became the first director of the Office of Management and Budget, and he served in that position until his appointment as United States Secretary of the Treasury in 1972. In that role, Shultz supported the Nixon shock (which sought to revive the ailing economy in part by abolishing the gold standard) and presided over the end of the Bretton Woods system.

Shultz left the Nixon administration in 1974 to become an executive at Bechtel. After becoming president and director of that company, he accepted President Ronald Reagan's offer to serve as United States Secretary of State. He held that office from 1982 to 1989. Shultz pushed for Reagan to establish relations with Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev, which led to a thaw between the United States and the Soviet Union. He opposed the U.S. aid to rebels trying to overthrow the Sandinistas using funds from an illegal sale of weapons to Iran that led to the Iran–Contra affair.

Shultz retired from public office in 1989 but remained active in business and politics. He served as an informal adviser to George W. Bush and helped formulate the Bush Doctrine of preemptive war. He served on the Global Commission on Drug Policy, California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger's Economic Recovery Council, and on the boards of Bechtel and the Charles Schwab Corporation.

Beginning in 2013, Shultz advocated for a revenue-neutral carbon tax as the most economically sound means of mitigating anthropogenic climate change.[SUP][3][/SUP][SUP][4][/SUP][SUP][5][/SUP][SUP][6][/SUP][SUP][7][/SUP] He was a member of the Hoover Institution, the Institute for International Economics, the Washington Institute for Near East Policy, and other groups.
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Frank Shankwitz, Founder of Make-A-Wish foundation dead at 77 from esophageal cancer. Frank was an Arizona Highway Motorcycle Patrol officer & helped a terminally ill (leukemia) Christopher Grecius to become a motorcycle cop like in CHIPs-
 
det107 said:
Frank Shankwitz, Founder of Make-A-Wish foundation dead at 77 from esophageal cancer. Frank was an Arizona Highway Motorcycle Patrol officer & helped a terminally ill (leukemia) Christopher Grecius to become a motorcycle cop like in CHIPs-
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frank_Shankwitz

Frank Shankwitz (March 8, 1943 – January 24, 2021) was an American philanthropist who was a co-founder of the Make-A-Wish Foundation.[SUP][2][/SUP][SUP][3][/SUP][SUP][4][/SUP] He has received the President's Call to Service Award, the Making a Difference in the World, the Making a World of Difference and the Ellis Island Medal of Honor awards.[SUP][5][/SUP][SUP][6][/SUP][SUP][7][/SUP] In 2019, a documentary film was made, telling the story of Shankwitz, his life and his foundation.

Early life[edit]


Raised in northern Arizona, Shankwitz attended grade school in Seligman, and junior high and high school in Prescott, graduating from Prescott High School in 1961. Shankwitz graduated from Phoenix College in 1970, with continuing education at Arizona Western College and Arizona State University. Following high school, Shankwitz enlisted in the U.S. Air Force, was stationed in England, and received an Honorable Discharge in 1965. Upon returning home, Shankwitz was employed by Motorola for seven years.


In 1972, Shankwitz began his career with the Arizona Department of Public Safety, assigned to the Arizona Highway Patrol as a car officer in the Yuma area where Shankwitz's interest in working with children began as a coach for the Special Olympics program.

In 1975, Shankwitz was transferred to the Phoenix area to be part of a new 10-man Motorcycle Tactical Unit designed to work throughout the state. For the next 7 years, whenever assigned to small towns, Shankwitz would visit local grade schools and talk about bicycle safety and let the children sit on his motorcycle.

Shankwitz was one of the primary officers from the Arizona Highway Patrol who was responsible for granting the "wish" of a 7-year-old boy with leukemia who wanted to be a Highway Patrol Motorcycle Officer like his heroes, Ponch and Jon from the television show, CHiPs.[SUP][8][/SUP] The boy (referenced as Chris) was made the first and only Honorary Arizona Highway Patrol Officer in the history of the Arizona Highway Patrol, complete with a custom made uniform, badge, and Motor Officer Wings. Chris succumbed to his illness a few days after receiving his "wish", and was buried with full police honors in Kewanee, Illinois, with Shankwitz leading the police funeral procession. Chris was the inspiration for Shankwitz's idea to start a non-profit foundation that would let children "make-a-wish" and have it come true.[SUP][9][/SUP]

Shankwitz retired as a homicide detective from the Arizona Department of Public Safety, returned as a sworn Reserve Detective, assigned to the Prescott Police Department's Cold Case Homicide Unit, and was a member of the Yavapai County Mounted Sheriff's Posse.

Make-A-Wish Foundation[edit]


Shankwitz, along with his wife Kitty and several others, founded the Make-A-Wish Foundation in 1980, with Shankwitz being the first president/CEO. Thirty-four years later, in 2014, the Make-A-Wish Foundation has grown to 64 chapters in the United States, 36 international chapters, covering five continents, and has granted over 500,000 wishes worldwide, with a wish being granted somewhere in the world on an average of every 42 minutes. Shankwitz continued to work with the Make-A-Wish Foundation as a Wish Ambassador and keynote speaker at fund-raising events for chapters throughout the United States, as well as a former board member of the Arizona chapter. Shankwitz and his wife Kitty were still volunteers and wish-granters for the foundation.[SUP][10][/SUP]

In 2004, Shankwitz received The President's Call To Service Award from President George W. Bush for service and civic participation, and recognition and appreciation for the commitment to strengthen our Nation and for making a difference through volunteer service.

In 2010, Shankwitz received the Tempe, Arizona Sister Cities "Making A World of Difference" award.[SUP][11][/SUP]

In 2010, Shankwitz was featured in Brad Meltzer's book, Heroes For My Son, identified as one of the 52 people who have made a difference in the world.[SUP][12][/SUP]

Shankwitz has been featured in USA Weekend Magazine,[SUP][13][/SUP] The Huffington Post,[SUP][14][/SUP] and other publications.

In 2013, Shankwitz co-authored with Rachelle Sparks the book, Once Upon A Wish,[SUP][15][/SUP] published by BenBella Books. Shankwitz has been featured in Greg Reid's, "Universal Wish" and Lisa Heidinger's, "Wishes In Flight".[SUP][16][/SUP]

In 2019, BBC Outlook Weekend interviewed Shankwitz about surviving his own challenging childhood, developing his philosophy of giving back, his brush with death, and his work, mentioning the film about his life, Wish Man.[SUP][17][/SUP]
Personal life[edit]


Shankwitz and his wife Kitty resided in Prescott, Arizona. His two adult daughters, three grandchildren, and one great-grandson reside in Ohio. He died from esophageal cancer on January 24, 2021 at the age of 77.[SUP][18][/SUP][SUP][19][/SUP]
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Vaya Con Dios :usa::usa:
 
Media personality/Journalist/Announcer for ESPN Pedro Gomez died unexpectedly at 58-
 
det107 said:
Media personality/Journalist/Announcer for ESPN Pedro Gomez died unexpectedly at 58-
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pedro_Gomez_(journalist)

Pedro Gomez (August 20, 1962 – February 7, 2021) was an American sports journalist. He worked as a reporter for ESPN from 2003 to 2021, contributing to the network's SportsCenter show.[SUP][1][/SUP] He was primarily a baseball reporter and was also a member of the Baseball Writers' Association of America who cast election votes for the Baseball Hall of Fame. He covered 25 World Series and 22 Major League Baseball All-Star Games.[SUP][1][/SUP]
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The last of the Chicago 7

https://www.latimes.com/obituaries/story/2021-02-04/rennie-davis-chicago-7-vietnam-war-protest-dies

Rennie Davis, one of the last living ‘Chicago 7' activists, dies at 80

2-4-21
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The seven defendants in the “Chicago 7" trial in 1970. Left to right, Lee Weiner, Rennie Davis, David Dellinger, Abbie Hoffman, Tom Hayden, (behind Hoffman), Jerry Rubin and John Froiners.

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FEB. 4, 2021 3:31 PM PT
Rennie Davis, one of the “Chicago 7” activists who was tried for organizing the anti-Vietnam War protests outside the 1968 Democratic National Convention in Chicago in which thousands clashed with police in a bloody confrontation that horrified a nation watching live on television, has died at his home in Colorado. He was 80.

Davis died Tuesday of lymphoma, his wife, Kirsten Liegmann, said. He was 80.

A longtime peace activist, Davis was national director of the community organizing program for the anti-war Students for a Democratic Society and was a protest coordinator for the Chicago convention.

Some 3,000 anti-war demonstrators clashed with police and Illinois National Guardsmen on Aug. 28, 1968, near the convention. Police clubbed demonstrators and carried out mass arrests. Davis himself was seriously injured and taken to a hospital. An investigative commission later described the clash as a “police riot.”

Davis and four co-defendants — Tom Hayden, Jerry Rubin, Abbie Hoffman and David Dellinger — were convicted of conspiracy to incite a riot during the “Chicago 7" trial in 1969 and 1970. A federal appeals court overturned the convictions, citing errors by U.S. District Judge Julius Hoffman.

Co-defendants John Froines and Lee Weiner were acquitted. An eighth defendant, Bobby Seale, was tried separately, convicted of contempt and sentenced to four years in prison. That conviction also was overturned.

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Davis was “one of the most important nuts and bolts organizers of the antiwar movement in the 1960s and the early 1970s,” said David Farber, a history professor at the University of Kansas who has written four books about the 1960s — including “Chicago ’68,” which details the antiwar protests in Chicago.



Unlike the more famous members of what became known as the “Chicago 7” — including Hoffman and Rubin — Farber said Davis “was not a celebrity, but he was a very essential organizer for the antiwar movement.”

“He was the one negotiating with the [Chicago Mayor Richard J.] Daley administration, trying to get permits and the right to march and rally,” Farber said. “He was the hands-on organizer ... doing very practical, pragmatic things.”

He said the protest became famous not because of how many people showed up “but because a commission later determined that there had been a ‘police riot.’” And because of the TV coverage of the Democratic Convention, “images of this protest were seen all over the United States and indeed all over the world,” Farber said.

Police targeted Davis and beat him on the head with batons, Farber said.

“It became a famous example of how a local government could stop protests from happening. It’s very relevant today,” Farber said.
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Protesters use park benches to construct a barricade against Chicago police and National Guardsmen in 1968.
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In 1971, Davis also organized a mass demonstration against the Vietnam War that was designed to tie up traffic in Washington, D.C.

Davis’ wife said his legacy goes well beyond his pacifist activism. He moved to Colorado, where he studied and taught spirituality and entered the business world, selling life insurance and running a think tank that developed technologies for the environment. He became a venture capitalist and a lecturer on meditation and self-awareness, Liegmann said.

She said he pursued a spiritual path designed to create awareness of the planet even as he was dispensing business advice as a venture capitalist.

“Everybody knows him as the ’60s activist, and really what he would want to be remembered for is his vision for a new humanity — the magnificence of who we are,” Liegmann said.

Davis was born on May 26, 1940, in Lansing, Mich., and raised in Berryville, Va. He graduated from Oberlin College and earned a master’s degree from the University of Illinois.
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Rennie Davis in 2016.
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Davis got his start as one of the key community organizers for Students for a Democratic Society in the mid-1960s, Farber said. Davis was originally based in Ann Arbor, Mich., but helped oversee community organizing projects nationwide.

In the early 1970s, Davis became disillusioned with the more violent course the antiwar movement was taking.

“One of the things people always said about Rennie Davis was that he was a gentle man. He was not a rabble rouser, he was not an angry, hostile person. He deeply believed in a more just and fair and equitable society and pursued it nonviolently all his life,” Farber said.

In addition to Liegmann, Davis is survived by daughters Lia Davis, Maya Davis; a son, Sky Davis; two grandchildren and three siblings.
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They and their acolytes eventually took over the Democrat party and made it what it is today
 
det107 said:
​Billy Brown from the Alaskan Bush People show died from a seizure at 68-
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https://nypost.com/2021/02/08/alaskan-bush-people-star-billy-brown-dead-at-68/

Watched for a few episodes then I realised it was all fake

‘Alaskan Bush People’ star Billy Brown dead at 68


By Eric Hegedus

February 8, 2021 | 5:33pm | Updated
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Billy Brown, the patriarch on the Discovery reality series “Alaskan Bush People,” died Sunday at age 68.

He passed away following a seizure, according to a private Instagram by his son, Bear Brown, according to People magazine.

“We are heartbroken to announce that our beloved patriarch Billy Brown passed away last night after suffering from a seizure,” Bear wrote. “He was our best friend — a wonderful and loving dad, granddad and husband and he will be dearly missed.”

In a public Instagram post, Bear’s sister Rain — who also goes by Rainy — left a touching tribute to their father.

“I lost a true friend. Not forever, but only in this world,” she wrote. “Please hold my family in your thoughts and prayers, especially my mother. Please hold your family tight for me. Words cannot express how wonderful he was and is. But I will say, the closest thing to an angel I’ve ever known. God bless you da I love and miss you dearly. You will always be my hero. God bless everyone.”

The show’s official Twitter account also acknowledged his “sudden passing,” calling him “a trailblazer, a lovely man, and most definitely one of a kind.”
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ArTi54N said:
Mary Wilson, founding member of The Supremes, dies at 76 (nbcnews.com)
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mary_Wilson_(singer)

Mary Wilson (March 6, 1944 – February 8, 2021)[SUP][1][/SUP] was an American singer and concert performer best known as a founding member of the Supremes, the most successful Motown act of the 1960s and the best-charting female group in U.S. history,[SUP][2][/SUP] as well as one of the all-time best-selling girl groups in the world. The group released a record-setting twelve number-one hit singles on the Billboard Hot 100,[SUP][a][/SUP] ten of which Wilson sang backing vocals for.

Wilson remained with the group following the departures of other original members, Florence Ballard in 1967 and Diana Ross in 1970, though the group disbanded following Wilson's own departure in 1977. Wilson later became a New York Times best-selling author in 1986 with the release of her first autobiography, Dreamgirl: My Life as a Supreme, which set records for sales in its genre, and later for the autobiography Supreme Faith: Someday We'll Be Together.

Continuing a successful career as a concert performer in Las Vegas, Wilson also worked in activism, fighting to pass Truth in Music Advertising bills and donating to various charities. Wilson was inducted along with Ross and Ballard (as members of the Supremes) into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1988.
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Vaya Con Dios
Thank you for the all the enjoyable music
 
Alzheimer's disease claimed the Legendary NFL coach Marty Schottenheimer at 77-
 
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