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Billy Brackett, 48; Steve Vozzella, 45; and Bryan MacFarlane, 41, were also stalwart members of Maine's community of deaf people who died in the shootings, the educational center said.
The Governor Baxter School for the Deaf (GBSD), formerly known as the Maine School for the Deaf is a public co-educational school that serves the deaf and hard-of-hearing in the State of Maine. It is located on Mackworth Island , an approximately 100-acre (40 ha) island in Falmouth, Maine , USA, adjacent to its border with Portland, Maine .
Maine shootings leave deaf community reeling after 4 of their own are killed Aria Bendix and Katie Reimchen and Minyvonne Burke and David K. Li and Emilie Ikeda Updated October 29, 2023 at 7:02 PM
LISBON FALLS, Maine (AP) — Most survivors of the mass shootings at a Maine bowling alley and a bar heard the gunfire and tried to escape. For a group of deaf bowlers, the shattering din of ...
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The National Association of the Deaf (NAD) is an organization for the promotion of the rights of deaf people in the United States.NAD was founded in Cincinnati, Ohio, in 1880 as a non-profit organization run by Deaf people to advocate for deaf rights, its first president being Robert P. McGregor of Ohio.
Among the 18 people killed in the Lewiston, Maine, mass shooting rampage on Oct. 25 were four deaf men, making for what appears to be the worst mass shooting of deaf people in U.S. history.
Blanche Wilkins Williams (December 1, 1876 – March 24, 1936) was an American educator of deaf children. In 1893 she became the first African American woman to graduate from the Minnesota State Academy for the Deaf. She was described by a prominent deaf newspaper as "the most accomplished deaf lady of her race in America". [citation needed]