Seen in 2005, Dr. Samuel Goetz, left, a survivor of a Nazi concentration camp, with Bob Persinger, the American GI who commanded the tank corps that liberated the camp where Goetz was being held. (Mark Boster / Los Angeles Times)
Mike Gray is shown in 1998. He also wrote “Drug Crazy: How We Got into This Mess and How We Can Get Out” and made several documentary films. (Chuck Berman / Chicago Tribune)
Dr. Eyad Sarraj in 1996. (Adel Hana / Associated Press)
John Seigenthaler works in his office at the Tennessean newspaper in Nashville in 2005. The maverick journalist, who helped shape USA Today and championed civil rights, died Friday at the age of 86. (Mark Humphrey / Associated Press)
Former Soviet Foreign Minister and former Georgian President Eduard Shevardnadze shown in 1986. (AFP / Getty Images)
Glenn Stassen, left, and Mark Harlan, a teacher and a student at the Fuller Theological Seminary, show their support for the Palestinians during a march in Pasadena in 2002. (Stefano Paltera / For the Los Angeles Times)
Wu Tianming, film director and head of Xi’an studios, China’s most progressive film production units, in Century City in 1999. (Gary Friedman / Los Angeles Times)
