Michael Seifert, SS Guard at Camp in Italy, Dies at 86
Source: NYT (11-8-10)Michael Seifert had settled into a quiet retirement in Vancouver, British Columbia, living in a little white stucco house, gardening in the backyard. A former lumber mill worker,...
View ArticleEmilio Massera, Leader of Brutal Argentine Junta, Dies at 85
Source: NYT (11-9-10)BUENOS AIRES — Emilio Massera, a leader of the military junta of Argentina’s bloody dictatorship and the former head of the country’s most notorious political prison, where an...
View ArticleChalmers Johnson, anti-imperialist advocate, dies at 79
Source: John Nichols at The Nation (11-22-10)[John Nichols, a pioneering political blogger, has written the Beat since 1999. His posts have been circulated internationally, quoted in numerous books...
View ArticleStephen J. Solarz, Former N.Y. Congressman, Dies at 70
Source: NYT (11-30-10)Stephen J. Solarz, a nine-term Democratic congressman whose concerns went beyond traffic lights and beach erosion in his Brooklyn district to nuclear weapons, the Middle East and...
View ArticleSamuel T. Cohen, Neutron Bomb Inventor, Dies at 89
Source: NYT (12-1-10)Samuel T. Cohen, the physicist who invented the small tactical nuclear weapon known as the neutron bomb, a controversial device designed to kill enemy troops with subatomic...
View ArticleRichard C. Holbrooke: Strong American Voice in Diplomacy and Crisis
Source: NYT (12-13-10)Richard C. Holbrooke, the Obama administration’s special representative for Afghanistan and Pakistan since 2009 and a diplomatic troubleshooter who worked for every Democratic...
View ArticleR. Richard Rubottom, Who Helped Shape Cuban Policy, Dies at 98
Source: NYT (12-20-10)R. Richard Rubottom, a diplomat who influenced and helped hone United States policy toward Latin America in the late 1950s, a time of economic and political tumult that...
View ArticleJames R. Mann, South Carolina Congressman Who Worked on Nixon Impeachment,...
Source: NYT (12-22-10)James R. Mann, a South Carolina congressman who played a critical role in drafting the articles of impeachment against Richard M. Nixon and emerged as one of the South’s most...
View ArticleRichard Winters Dies at 92; Led ‘Band of Brothers’
Source: NYT (1-10-11)Richard Winters, the commanding officer of Easy Company, the Army unit whose gritty combat from the beaches of Normandy to the capture of Hitler’s mountain retreat was recounted...
View ArticleLiu Huaqing Dies at 94; Oversaw Modernization of China’s Navy
Source: NYT (1-16-11)Gen. Liu Huaqing, a military commander who oversaw the modernization of the Chinese Navy, died on Friday. He was 94. His death was announced by Chinese state news organizations,...
View ArticleSargent Shriver, first Peace Corps director, dies at 95
Source: Politico (1-18-11)R. Sargent Shriver — the first Peace Corps director, one-time vice-presidential nominee, and most famous Kennedy in-law — died Tuesday in his native Maryland. He was 95 and...
View ArticleDagmar Wilson, Anti-Nuclear Leader, Dies at 94
Source: NYT (1-24-11)Dagmar Wilson, the founder of Women Strike for Peace, a cold war movement that helped organize demonstrations around the world calling for nuclear disarmament, died Jan. 6 in...
View ArticleDaniel Bell, Ardent Appraiser of Politics, Economics and Culture, Dies at 91
Source: NYT (1-25-11)Daniel Bell, the writer, editor, sociologist and teacher who over seven decades came to epitomize the engaged intellectual as he struggled to reveal the past, comprehend the...
View ArticleBarney Hajiro, Medal of Honor Recipient, Dies at 94
Source: NYT (2-3-11)After Barney Hajiro, an Army private, single-handedly wiped out two German machine gun nests and killed two snipers in a gallant charge in World War II, his superiors recommended...
View ArticleRaymond D’Addario, Photographer of Nazis, Dies at 90
Source: NYT (2-16-11)Raymond D’Addario, an Army photographer whose images of Hitler’s top henchmen during the Nuremberg war crimes trials put their faces before the world as it became increasingly...
View ArticleSuze Rotolo, a Face, With Bob Dylan, of ’60s Music, Is Dead at 67
Source: NYT (3-1-11)Suze Rotolo, who became widely known for her romance with Bob Dylan in the early 1960s, strongly influenced his early songwriting and, in one of the decade’s signature images,...
View ArticleJane Russell, Sultry Star of 1940s and ’50s, Dies at 89
Source: NYT (2-28-11)Jane Russell, the voluptuous actress at the center of one of the most highly publicized censorship episodes in movie history, the long-delayed release of the 1940s western “The...
View ArticleFrank Buckles, Last World War I Doughboy, Is Dead at 110
Source: NYT (2-28-11)Frank Buckles, who drove an Army ambulance in France in 1918 and came to symbolize a generation of embattled young Americans as the last of the World War I doughboys, died on...
View ArticleNecmettin Erbakan, a Turkish Prime Minister, Dies at 84
Source: NYT (3-1-11)Necmettin Erbakan, the first Islamist prime minister of Turkey, whose attempt to turn his country away from the West led the military to depose him in 1997, died on Sunday in...
View ArticleCarl B. Hess, Pioneer of Private Equity, Dies at 98
Source: NYT (3-4-11)Carl B. Hess, the founding chairman and longtime leader of AEA Investors, a pioneer private equity company and a precursor to the leveraged-buyout giants of the 1980s, died on Feb....
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