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Named after her grandmother, Burks was born in Hot Springs, Arkansas, and was friends with Bill Clinton growing up. [3] [4] Raised in a Methodist family, her mother Aline (née Lawler) was hospitalized with tuberculosis for a prolonged period during her childhood, during which Burks' father was her primary caretaker until his death when she was 5.
Jasper: Georgia: 1919: Convicted by all-white jury of attempting to shoot a white farmer; case before Georgia Court of Appeals. Mob of 60 stopped car of sheriff who was driving him for protection to nearest large city, Macon. Driven to a bridge in Jasper County and shot to death. Governor was "livid". [380]: 233–234 Prince, Henry: African ...
The same year, the city of Jasper named a local park the "James Byrd Jr. Memorial Park" in his honor. [58] In 2003, a movie about the crime, titled Jasper, Texas, was produced and aired on Showtime. The same year, a documentary titled Two Towns of Jasper, made by filmmakers Marco Williams and Whitney Dow, premiered on PBS's P.O.V. series. [62]
Pope John Paul II was the subject of three premature obituaries.. A prematurely reported obituary is an obituary of someone who was still alive at the time of publication. . Examples include that of inventor and philanthropist Alfred Nobel, whose premature obituary condemning him as a "merchant of death" for creating military explosives may have prompted him to create the Nobel Prize; [1 ...
The following notable deaths in the United States occurred in 2024.Names are reported under the date of death, in alphabetical order as set out in WP:NAMESORT.A typical entry reports information in the following sequence: Name, age, country of citizenship at birth and subsequent nationality (if applicable), what subject was noted for, year of birth (if known), and reference.
Sarah Jean Burke [1] (September 3, 1982 – January 19, 2012) was a Canadian freestyle skier who was a pioneer of the superpipe event. [ 2 ] [ 3 ] She was a five-time Winter X Games gold medallist, and won the world championship in the halfpipe in 2005.
Past master of Falls City Lodge No. 376 of Louisville, Kentucky. At a meeting of the Grand Lodge of England, in the presence of the King and 8,000 Masons, he was created a past senior grand warden of that grand lodge. [10] Stanislav Binički (1872–1942), Serbian musician [25] Leon Milton Birkhead (1885–1954), American Unitarian minister [10]
Thomas Jasper Collins (August 2, 1844 - October 6, 1925), [1] commonly known as T. J. Collins, was an American architect. He served in the Union Army during the American Civil War and later became an architect, practicing first in Washington, D.C. , before moving to Staunton, Virginia in 1890. [ 2 ]