Entertainment & Arts
John Carl Warnecke dies at 91; designer of JFK grave site
April 24, 2010
Obituaries
Based in San Francisco, he was a pioneer of contextual architecture, an approach that considers how a building will fit into its environment, and had projects worldwide.
World & Nation
INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — Descendants of notorious 1930s gangster John Dillinger who plan to have his remains exhumed say they have “evidence” the body buried in an Indianapolis cemetery beneath a gravestone bearing his name may not be him and FBI agents possibly killed someone else in 1934.The Indiana State Department of Health released affidavits signed by Mike Thompson and Carol Thompson Griffith, who say Dillinger was their uncle.
Aug. 1, 2019
California
History-minded reenactors fervently salute 26 buried at two cemeteries. Plots that were neglected suddenly aren’t.
Nov. 17, 2002
A polished new headstone stands by two worn markers in a tiny private cemetery, a tribute to the man whose grave site it marks and a federal program that tries to ensure that no veteran’s grave goes unmarked.
Nov. 29, 1998
Travel & Experiences
A lot of tourist attractions in this historic city don’t really exist.
Aug. 10, 1986
Long-missing grave marker offers chance to honor people of tolerance
Sept. 11, 2012
Hundreds of angry and grieving people who gathered Saturday at Lincoln Memorial Park in Carson were promised by state officials that someone would be jailed for the desecration of graves and the alleged looting of the unkempt cemetery’s maintenance fund.
Aug. 20, 1995
It was distressing for an acquaintance who happened upon the gravestone of Msgr. Francis J.
May 14, 1994