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In 1995, Enyart angered families of people with AIDS when he read a man's obituary on his television show, Bob Enyart Live, calling the deceased a sodomite. [17] A regular feature of the show involved reading obituaries of people who had died from AIDS while playing " Another One Bites the Dust " by Queen , whose lead singer, Freddie Mercury ...
Luis José Monge (June 21, 1918 – June 2, 1967) was a convicted mass murderer who was executed in the gas chamber at Colorado State Penitentiary in 1967. Monge was the last inmate to be executed before an unofficial moratorium on execution that lasted for more than four years while most death penalty cases were on appeal, culminating in the U.S. Supreme Court decision in Furman v.
Born in Brooklyn, New York, in 1942, Dunning moved to his father's hometown of Charleston, South Carolina, at the age of three.In 1964 he left his parents' home and moved to Denver, Colorado, where, after a time working as a stable hand at a horse racing track, he got a job at The Denver Post.
One of four children, Johnston was born in Oklahoma City and raised in Vail, Colorado, [6] the son of Sarah "Sally" (née Cox) and Paul Ross Johnston. [7] [failed verification] His father was a U.S. Army veteran and businessman who served on the town council for more than a decade and then as mayor from 1983 to 1987.
Lorraine Granado (1948–2019), environmental, peace and social justice activist and organizer who co-founded the Colorado People's Environmental and Economic Network and Neighbors for a Toxic-Free Community in Denver; John E. Manders (1895–1973), 17th Mayor of Anchorage, Alaska [452] William McGaa (1824–1867), mountain man, co-founder of ...
Cherry Creek Pioneer — Denver (1859) [9] Colorado Mountaineer Established 1875; Colorado Springs Sun; The Colorado Statesman — Denver; Conejos County Citizen — Conejos County (ceased in 2024) [10] La Cucaracha (newspaper) — Pueblo [11] Denver Daily News; Denver Democrat — Denver; The Denver Times (1872-1926)
In the 1960s, he joined forces with Ms. Bonfils to become secretary-treasurer of the Denver Post. After Helen Bonfils' death, he became publisher of the paper. Using funds from the Bonfils Foundation, he created The Denver Center for the Performing Arts in the late 1970s. He retired as active chairman of the center in 2007 at the age of 94.
King started his journalism career in 1990 as a Washington, D.C.-based stringer for the Great Falls Tribune, covering topics such as land use disputes. [7] In the early 1990s he also worked at the Tampa Tribune and then the Prague Post in the Czech Republic.