AP - Dick Martin, the zany half of the comedy team whose “Rowan and Martin’s Laugh-In” took television by storm in the 1960s, making stars of Goldie Hawn and Lily Tomlin and creating such national catch-phrases as “Sock it to me!” has died. He was 86.
AP - Manuel “Sureshot” Marulanda, a peasant’s son who built Latin America’s mightiest guerrilla army but failed in a half century of struggle to trigger a communist revolution in Colombia, is dead. He was believed to be 78.
AP - Thelma Keane, the inspiration for the Mommy character in the long-running “Family Circus” comic created by her husband, Bil Keane, has died. She was 82.
AP - Pioneer photojournalist Cornell Capa, who founded the International Center of Photography and illuminated social and political topics from the campaigns of the Kennedy brothers to the destruction of native cultures in Latin America, died Friday at the age of 90.
AP - The last surviving plaintiff in Topeka’s Brown v. Board of Education case, which led to the historic 1954 Supreme Court ruling outlawing segregation in public schools, has died at 88.
AP - In a March 25 story on the death of Spanish novelist and scriptwriter Rafael Azcona, The Associated Press, relying on information from the Spanish Writers and Editors Society, erroneously reported that he died Sunday, March 23. Azcona’s widow, Susan Youdelman, says he died Monday, March 24. She goes by the name Susan, not Susi, as given in the story.
Reuters - Brian Keenan, a former guerrilla leader
in the Irish Republican Army (IRA) who fought to end British
rule in Northern Ireland, has died, his close ally Sinn Fein
President Gerry Adams said on Wednesday.
AP - In planning Jimmy Carter’s climb to the White House, Hamilton Jordan pushed a strategy still popular with lesser-known candidates today: start campaigning years in advance and target early voting states to build support from early upsets.
AP - Brian Keenan, a commanding figure during the Irish Republican Army’s long march from war to peace, died of cancer Wednesday, the Sinn Fein party announced. He was 66.
AP - The creator of the popular religious children’s television show “Davey and Goliath” has died. A memorial service will be held May 31 at St. Mark’s School of Texas in Dallas for Richard Towne “Dick” Sutcliffe. He died May 11 in Dallas from complications of a stroke. He was 90.