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Monday’s Highlights: 'Castle' on ABC
Show TrackerMonday’s Highlights: 'Castle' on ABC... -
Arts on TV: 'Anything Goes'; 'Memphis'; Cab Calloway
Culture MonsterThis week's Arts on TV includes 'Anything Goes'; 'Memphis'; Cab Calloway.... -
Influences: Trumpet player, bandleader, composer Terence Blanchard
Culture MonsterInfluences: Trumpet player, bandleader and film composer Terence Blanchard by Nate Jackson... -
Violet Cowden dies at 94; civilian WASP aviator during World War II
Violet Cowden never lost her love of flying, a passion born when she was a young girl envying the hawks soaring above her family's South Dakota farm in the 1920s.
When she was a young first-grade teacher learning to fly out of an airfield in Spearfish,...Tags: Congressional Gold Medal Honorees, Physical Conditions, U.S. Army, Air and Aviation Sports, Sports
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Lee A. Archer dies at 90; Tuskegee Airman was ace pilot
Associated PressRetired Air Force Lt. Colonel Lee A. Archer, a Tuskegee Airman considered to be the only black ace pilot, who also broke racial barriers as an executive at a major U.S. company and founder of a venture capital firm, died Wednesday in New York City. He was...Tags: Congressional Gold Medal Honorees, U.S. Army, George W. Bush, Hospitals and Clinics, Companies and Corporations
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Robert Searcy, member of Tuskegee Airmen and longtime L.A. resident, dies at 88
L.A. NOWTimes staffer Molly Hennessy-Fiske's obituary on Robert Searcy, a member of the all-black group of World War II servicemen known as the Tuskegee Airmen and a longtime resident of Los Angeles, is posted. Here's an excerpt: Searcy was born in...... -
Percy Sutton dies at 89; civil rights attorney represented Malcolm X
Times Staff And Wire ReportsPercy Sutton, the pioneering civil rights attorney who represented Malcolm X before launching successful careers as a political power broker and media mogul, has died. He was 89. Marissa Shorenstein, a spokeswoman for New York Gov. David Paterson,...Tags: Africa, Local Elections, Crime, Law and Justice, Primaries, Theater
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Ten hut! Richard Blumenthal and the Semper Fib syndrome
Opinion L.A.Connecticutâs Democratic attorney general is not the first person to fall in love with a man in uniform â himself. And he wonât be the last. Richard Blumenthal admitted to misstating his military record when he referred to his service in the Vietnam... -
William B. Ellis dies at 93; helped break racial barriers as one of the Tuskegee Airmen
William B. Ellis, who pushed to break racial barriers as one of the Tuskegee Airmen, the nation's first black military pilots, has died in Riverside. He was 93.
Ellis, who co-founded the Los Angeles chapter of the Tuskegee veterans organization, died...Tags: U.S. Military, Bars and Clubs, Colleges and Universities, U.S. Army, Family
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Roger 'Bill' Terry dies at 87; member of WWII Tuskegee Airmen
Roger "Bill" Terry, the only member of the all-black group of World War II pilots known as the Tuskegee Airmen convicted in what became known as the Freeman Field Mutiny, died of heart failure Thursday at Kaiser Permanente West Los Angeles Medical Center....Tags: Congressional Gold Medal Honorees, Crime, Law and Justice, Civil Unrest, Thurgood Marshall, Obituaries
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Robert Searcy dies at 88; member of Tuskegee Airmen in World War II
Robert Searcy, a member of the all-black group of World War II servicemen known as the Tuskegee Airmen and a longtime resident of Los Angeles, died of colon cancer Sept. 7 at his granddaughter's home in Atlanta. He was 88.
Searcy was born in Mount...Tags: Barack Obama, University of California, Los Angeles, Obituaries, Italy, FedEx Corporation
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Military figures
Military figures (our listing of deaths from the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan may be found at http://projects.latimes.com/wardead) Army Lt. Gen. Robert Haldane, 83; led battalion that found the infamous Cu Chi tunnels during the Vietnam War (March 5)...Tags: Congressional Medal of Honor Heroes, Armed Forces, Awards and Prizes, Vietnam War (1955-1975), NATO
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