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Willie Mays, Giants’ electrifying ‘Say Hey Kid,’ has died at 93

by Hillel Italie AP National WriterJune 18, 2024

Willie Mays, the electrifying “Say Hey Kid” whose singular combination of talent, drive and exuberance made him one of baseball’s greatest and most beloved players, has died. He was 93.Mays’ family and the San Francisco Giants jointly announced…

Daniel Ellsberg, co-defendant in the Pentagon Papers case, talks to media outside the Federal Building in Los Angeles, April 28, 1973. Ellsberg, the government analyst and whistleblower who leaked the Pentagon Papers in 1971, died Friday, June 16. He was 92.

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Daniel Ellsberg, who leaked Pentagon Papers exposing Vietnam War secrets, dies at 92

by Hillel Italie Associated PressJune 16, 2023

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Tina Turner, unstoppable superstar whose hits included ‘What’s Love Got to Do With It,’ dead at 83

by Hillel Italie Associated PressMay 24, 2023

FILE - Baseball announcer Tim McCarver poses in the press box before the start of Game 2 of the American League Division Series on Oct. 2, 2003 in New York. McCarver, the All-Star catcher and Hall of Fame broadcaster who during 60 years in baseball won two World Series titles with the St. Louis Cardinals and had a long run as the one of the country's most recognized, incisive and talkative television commentators, died Thursday morning, Feb. 16, 2023, in Memphis, Tenn., due to...

Tim McCarver, big league catcher and broadcaster, dies at 81

by Hillel Italie Associated PressFebruary 16, 2023February 16, 2023

Actress Olivia de Havilland is shown in Los Angeles, Sept. 15, 2004.

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Screen legend Olivia de Havilland dies

by Hillel Italie Associated Press, and John Leicester Associated PressJuly 26, 2020

FILE - In this Aug. 16, 1969, file photo, grass and leaf huts are used as makeshift living quarters for some of the attendees at the Woodstock Music and Arts Festival at White Lake in Bethel, N.Y. Timing alone ensures that the Woodstock music festival and Charles Manson murders will be joined in memory. But the apex of peace and love and the abyss of pitiless violence were born out of similar drives as old as the U.S. itself. (AP Photo/File)

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Woodstock, Manson and the march to Utopia

by Hillel Italie Associated PressAugust 13, 2019

FILE - In this March 13, 1972 file photo, Aretha Franklin holds her Grammy Award for Best Rhythm and Blue performance of the song "Bridge Over Troubled Waters," in New York. Franklin died Thursday, Aug. 16, 2018 at her home in Detroit. She was 76. (AP Photo/Dave Pickoff, File)

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The thrill and the truth of Aretha Franklin

by Hillel Italie Associated PressAugust 16, 2018

Longtime Elvis Presley drummer D.J. Fontana performs at the 50th anniversary celebration concert of Elvis Presley’s first performance in Sherveport, La., in October 2004.

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Longtime Elvis Presley drummer D.J. Fontana has died

by Adrian Sainz Associated Press, and Hillel Italie Associated PressJune 14, 2018

In this Jan. 12, 1966, photo provided by the White House, President Lyndon B. Johnson prepares for his State of the Union address with, from left, Richard Goodwin, former presidential assistant called back from Wesleyan University to help on the speech, Jack Valenti and Joseph A. Califano, Jr. at the White House in Washington. Goodwin, an aide, speechwriter and liberal force for the Kennedys and Lyndon Johnson died Sunday, May 20, 2018, at his home in Concord, Mass.

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Richard N. Goodwin, White House speech writer, dead at 86

by Hillel Italie Associated PressMay 21, 2018

Former president George W. Bush, left, poses with author Tom Wolfe, center, and first lady Laura Bush during the National Endowment for the Arts National Medal Awards ceremony at Constitution Hall in Washington. Wolfe was a recipient of the National Humanities Medal. Wolfe died at a New York City hospital. He was 88.

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Tom Wolfe, pioneering ‘New Journalist,’ dead at 88

by Hillel Italie Associated PressMay 15, 2018