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The White House Rose Garden was established in 1913 by Ellen Louise Axson Wilson, wife of Woodrow Wilson, and designed by landscape architect George Burnap. [ 3 ] [ 4 ] In 1935, President Franklin D. Roosevelt commissioned Frederick Law Olmsted Jr. to redesign the garden, and he installed cast iron furniture pieces.
Forty-one sets of remains have been recovered and 28 of those victims have been positively identified, Washington, D.C., Fire and EMS Chief John Donnelly Sr. said at a news conference Friday.
WASHINGTON (Reuters) -Air traffic control audio recorded the moments before and after an American Airlines regional passenger jet crashed with a U.S. Army Black Hawk helicopter in a midair ...
Rachel Lambert "Bunny" Mellon (August 9, 1910 – March 17, 2014) was an American horticulturalist, gardener, philanthropist, and art collector.She designed and planted a number of significant gardens, including the White House Rose Garden, and assembled one of the largest collections of rare horticultural books.
White House Landscapes. Walker and Company. ISBN 0-8027-1192-8.. Mellon, Rachel Lambert (1973). The White House Gardens Concepts and Design of the Rose Garden. Great American Editions Ltd. Seale, William (1986). The President's House. White House Historical Association and the National Geographic Society. ISBN 0-912308-28-1. Seale, William (1996).
The crash killed 63-year-old Rhonda Cagle, a beloved teacher who had retired from the Glen Rose school district. The 17-year-old driver of the first car was charged with criminally negligent homicide.
Anthony Rose only had a learner's permit and was driving more than 100 mph and swerving in and out of lanes just before the accident. Mount Vernon man sentenced in crash that killed two passengers ...
A 19-year-old woman with a brief but extensive penchant for speeding crashed her car on a well-traveled Minneapolis street late at night and left one of her passengers to die in the fiery wreck ...