The original tombstone of Lee Harvey Oswald may not rest here in peace much longer. Not that it has rested anywhere for very long.
A hospital expansion project in San Jose, Calif., has been halted after constructions crews unearthed more than 1,000 coffins filled with the bodies of people whose families couldn’t afford proper burials. The pine boxes date back to between 1875 and 1935.
New Hampshire officials and victims’ families and friends are gathering in Laconia to dedicate the New Hampshire Homicide Memorial Garden.
cemetery: among equals by claude05 on Flickr.
Guitarist Bert Weedon, who influenced a generation of rock stars with an instructional book, died April 20. He was 91.
Eric Clapton, Brian May, Pete Townshend, Paul McCartney, John Lennon and George Harrison are among those who received help in learning to play the guitar from Weedon’s book, which was first published in 1957 and has sold more than 2 million copies.
Chemist George Cowan, who worked on the Manhattan Project, died April 20. He was 92.
Cowan worked at Los Alamos National Laboratory for nearly 40 years. He started in 1949 as a scientist and went on to serve as a director of chemistry and as associate lab director of research.
‘Angel of Death, Victorious’
is a bronze statue created by Herman Matzen for the Francis Haserot memorial located at the Lakeview cemetery in Cleveland, Ohio.
Ohio has awesome cemeteries. Awesome!
(Source: skullsvilleusa)
Bert Weedon, 91, a British guitarist whose instructional manual taught the instrument to a generation of young hopefuls, died April 20.
Greg Ham, a musician and actor who was a key member of the 1980s pop group Men at Work, died April 19. He was 58.
The original tombstone of Lee Harvey Oswald may not rest here in peace much longer. Not that it has rested anywhere for very long.
When Faron Butler wanted to hear his daughter’s voice, he went to the voice mails she left him before she died of cancer at the age of 14.
But the voice mails are gone, erased in February when Butler joined a free trial of a messaging service offered by his cellphone carrier, T-Mobile, and he doesn’t believe company officials when they say the company can’t retrieve them.
(Source: flexyrhead, via blessedarethedead)
Levon Helm, 71, an influential drummer and singer with the Band, died April 19.