Steve Marble is the obituaries editor at the Los Angeles Times.
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Walter C. Miller earned five Emmys, a Peabody Award and the Grammy Trustees Award. He died Nov. 13 at his home in L.A. at age 94.
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After a long battle with pancreatic cancer, the celebrated game show host passed away at his home.
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Along with Allen Ginsberg and Jack Kerouac, Diane di Prima helped change the course of 20th century literature.
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As an intern, Barrera shot black-and-white photos of everyday moments in overlooked Latino communities, which his team felt were covered only when crime occurred. Their project won the 1984 public service award, despite initial skepticism from The Times’ editor.
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In an era when skateboarding was seen as a diversion for slackers, Hufnagel helped turn the sport into a lifestyle.
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Helped create the UCLA Meteorite Gallery, the largest collection of space debris in the West
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The colorful defense attorney also represented ‘Onion Field’ killer Jimmy Lee Smith.
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Lane Hirabayashi, scholar who refused to let Japanese American prison camps be forgotten, dies at 67
Lane Hirabayashi, scholar who refused to let Japanese American prison camps be forgotten, dies at 67
A UCLA professor and one of the nation’s leading authorities on the incarceration of Japanese Americans during World War II, Hirabayashi spent decades keeping memories of the prison camps alive.
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An image of 2-year-old Yuki sitting on a suitcase at Union Station, waiting for a train to take her to the internment camp, resonated for decades.
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For more than half a century, Field supplied the music and magic at El Segundo’s old-school movie house.