Tag: Obituaries

In this April 18, 2015 photo, retired U.S. Air Force Lt. Col. Richard "Dick" Cole, seated front, poses for photos after the presentation of a Congressional Gold Medal honoring the Doolittle Tokyo Raiders at the National Museum of the U.S. Air Force at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base in Dayton, Ohio. Retired Lt. Col. Richard "Dick" Cole, the last of the 80 Doolittle Tokyo Raiders who carried out the daring U.S. attack on Japan during World War II, has died at a military hospital in Texas. He was 103.

Richard Cole, the last WWII Doolittle Raider, dies at 103

Daniel Jativa · April 10, 2019 2:04 pm

FILE - This July 20, 1983 file photo shows Senator Ernest F. Hollings (D-S.C.) in Washington, DC. Hollings, a moderate six-term Democrat who made an unsuccessful bid for the presidency in 1984, has died. He was 97. Family spokesman Andy Brack says Hollings died early Saturday, April 6, 2019.

Ex-US Sen. Ernest ‘Fritz’ Hollings of South Carolina dead

Associated Press · April 6, 2019 1:47 pm

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Can’t knock the Hussle

Siraj Hashmi · April 4, 2019 3:51 pm

Portrait of DoD Mr. Andrew W. Marshall Director of Net Assessment, Office of the Secretary of Defense

Obituary: Andrew Marshall

Philip Terzian · April 3, 2019 6:50 pm

U.S. poet laureate W.S. Merwin speaks to the Hawaii Conservation Conference in Honolulu.

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W.S. Merwin’s American consciousness

Madeline Fry Schultz · March 21, 2019 7:59 pm

Princeton University economics and public affairs Professor Alan B. Krueger addresses a gathering at the Rutgers Business School Monday, Sept. 21, 2015, in Newark, N.J. A panel made up of Krueger, Small Business Association Administrator Maria Contreras-Sweet, and Sen. Cory Booker opened the federal agency's "Big Think" series of events to promote entrepreneurship.

Family says Obama’s top economic adviser killed himself

Joseph Lawler · March 18, 2019 8:34 pm

Alan Krueger, professor of economics and public affairs at Princeton University, speaks at the 2014 Fiscal Summit organized by the Peter G. Peterson Foundation in Washington, Wednesday, May 14, 2014.

Top Obama economic adviser Alan Krueger dies suddenly at 58

Joseph Lawler · March 18, 2019 2:27 pm

Former Sen. Birch Bayh, D-Ind., the author of Title IX in Congress gives his remarks during a forum in the South Court Auditorium at the White House in Washington in a gathering to celebrate the 40th anniversary of Title IX Wednesday, June 20, 2012.

Former Sen. Birch Bayh, author of two constitutional amendments, dies

David Mark · March 14, 2019 3:15 pm

In this Thursday, Nov. 22, 2018 photo, Fashion designer Karl Lagerfeld poses during the Champs Elysee Avenue illumination ceremony for the Christmas season, in Paris.

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Chanel’s Karl Lagerfeld was right about fashion and wrong about women

Madeline Fry Schultz · February 19, 2019 9:34 pm

Patrick Caddell appears at the 2014 CPAC event.

Carter-era polling whiz Patrick Caddell dies

David Mark · February 16, 2019 11:01 pm

Rep. Walter Jones, R-N.C., poses for a portrait in his office on Capitol Hill in D.C.

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Walter Jones leaves Congress with big shoes to fill

Daniel DePetris · February 11, 2019 11:36 pm

In a March 28, 2018 photo, U.S. Rep. Walter Jones, R-N.C., speaks in an interview at his campaign office in Greenville, North Carolina.

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Walter Jones, champion of peace, took on the warmongers and won

Jack Hunter · February 11, 2019 6:12 pm