The founder of Turning Point USA played a central role in organizing young voters and giving shape to the pro-Trump agenda. He was fatally shot during a speaking event in Utah.
Charlie Kirk spoke at a Turning Point USA event in July 2024 in Palm Beach, Fla. He was a leading voice among a cohort of young conservative activists who emerged as Donald Trump gained power.
The English vocalist wrote hits including “Goodbye Stranger” and “Bloody Well Right.” His use of the Wurlitzer piano became one of the rock band’s signature sounds.
The English vocalist wrote hits including “Goodbye Stranger” and “Bloody Well Right.” His use of the Wurlitzer piano became one of the rock band’s signature sounds.
John Burton in 1980, when he was a member of the U.S. House of Representatives. He served four terms in Congress but chose not to seek a fifth in 1982, citing depression and dependence on crack cocaine and nitrous oxide.
Her knowledge of Lee Harvey Oswald and his wife made her a noteworthy witness during the Warren Commission’s investigation into the assassination of President John F. Kennedy.
Ruth Paine in 2013. She let Lee Harvey Oswald and his wife, Marina, stay at her home in 1963 and, according to the author Thomas Mallon, knew more about the Oswalds’ movements and moods in the months prior to the assassination of President John F. Kennedy than anyone else did.
He and his classmates from a historically Black college in Greensboro, N.C., desegregated a Woolworth’s lunch counter in 1960, inspiring similar protests across the nation.
Joe Bugner absorbed a punch from Muhammad Ali during their 12-round heavyweight fight in Las Vegas in 1973. Bugner remained on his feet while losing a unanimous decision.
In 1951, always an adventurer, he was the second person to walk the trail in a “thru-hike,” from Georgia to Maine, in an arduous 123 days. He later met the first to do so.
A war hero turned politician, he was first elected to the House in 1990 but stepped down in 2005 after pleading guilty to tax evasion and conspiracy to commit bribery.
Representative Duke Cunningham, Republican of California, in 2005, the year he pleaded guilty in a bribery scandal and left Congress after 15 years in office.
He endorsed Mr. McCain’s presidential bid in 2008 after insisting, despite accounts to the contrary, that no Americans were tortured under his watch in the Vietnam War.
He helped litigate a landmark school desegregation case before the U.S. Supreme Court and overturn wrongful convictions of Black defendants in North Carolina.
James E. Ferguson II in 2000 in front of the Mecklenburg County Courthouse in Charlotte, N.C. “We weren’t practicing law in the abstract,” he said. “We were the legal arm of the civil rights movement in North Carolina.”
A former foreign minister, he founded an opposition political party and then served in the government as an unflagging negotiator with northern rebels.
Judge Frank Caprio of Providence Municipal Court in Rhode Island in 2017. His courtroom, he said. was a place “where people and cases are met with kindness and compassion.”
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