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Biography. Walton was born June 24, 1936, in Lamkin, Mississippi, into a family of share-croppers who migrated in 1941 to Indiana. [ 4] He was educated in Indianapolis and graduated from Crispus Attucks High School in 1952. [ 1] He was awarded a scholarship at the age of 15 to allow him to attend Morehouse College in Atlanta, Georgia from where ...
2022 National Sprint Car Hall of Fame inductee. Robin Lee Miller (October 27, 1949 – August 25, 2021) was an American motorsports journalist. Miller was best known for being a writer at The Indianapolis Star from 1968–2001. He also wrote for Autoweek, Car and Driver, ESPN and Speed. At the time of his death, he was a correspondent and ...
Occupations. Clubwoman. churchworker. community leader. Years active. 1930s–2000s. Known for. Decades of charity and volunteer work in Indianapolis. Louise Terry Batties (September 13, 1911 – October 4, 2014) was an American clubwoman based in Indianapolis, Indiana.
The Indianapolis News was an evening newspaper published for 130 years, beginning December 7, 1869, and ending on October 1, 1999. The "Great Hoosier Daily," as it was known, at one time held the largest circulation in the state of Indiana. It was also the oldest Indianapolis newspaper until it closed and was housed in the Indianapolis News ...
35,127 Weekday. 50,192 Sunday. (as of Q3 2022) [1][2] ISSN. 1930-2533. Website. indystar.com. The Indianapolis Star (also known as IndyStar) is a morning daily newspaper that began publishing on June 6, 1903, in Indianapolis, Indiana, United States. It has been the only major daily paper in the city since 1999, when the Indianapolis News ceased ...
Tony Kiritsis. Anthony George Kiritsis (August 13, 1932 – January 28, 2005) was an American kidnapper. Kiritsis was a resident of Indianapolis, Indiana, and had fallen behind on mortgage payments for a piece of real estate. In early February 1977, when his mortgage broker Richard O. Hall refused to give him additional time to pay, Kiritsis ...
Andrew Jacobs Jr. (February 24, 1932 – December 28, 2013) was an American lawyer and politician. A Democrat, he served as an Indiana state legislator and Congressman. Jacobs was a member of the United States House of Representatives for thirty years, beginning in the 1960s. His father, Andrew Jacobs, was also a congressman for one term.
Reginald H. Sullivan (March 10, 1876 – January 30, 1980) was the 30th and 33rd mayor of the city of Indianapolis, Indiana. He is among the longest-lived Americans to ever be a mayor of any city. He came from a political family with his father, Thomas Lennox Sullivan, being a former mayor of Indianapolis. He was also a lifelong bachelor who ...