Sunday, February 24, 2013
"Hanging chads"
JOURNAL ARCHIVE: From: Kerry Burgess
Sent: Wednesday, December 05, 2012 11:47 AM
To: 'Chad Trammell'
Subject: RE: What did I tell you.
Pat Hingle.
"Treasure Hunters."
"Pick up the badge, Mr. Cooper."
"Wife Swap."
"DEA."
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/12/05/nyregion/suspect-in-fatal-subway-push-is-in-custody.html?pagewanted=all
The New York Times
After Fatal Subway Shove, Asking: Were There No Heroes?
By MICHAEL WILSON and DANIEL KRIEGER
Published: December 4, 2012
The question of the day in New York City on Tuesday — what would you do? — rode on a wave of outrage over a harrowing act the day before. A clearly agitated man pushed a 58-year-old stranger onto the track of an oncoming subway train in Midtown Manhattan.
The man, Ki-Suck Han of Elmhurst, Queens, was struck and killed.
In Mr. Abbasi’s photos, several bystanders seemed to be gathered at the far end of the platform, waving at the oncoming train to slow down. “Good for these people,” Mr. Xavier said. But he asked, “Wasn’t there anybody who was strong enough to pull this guy out?”
He added, “Don’t ask me what I would do.”
The photographer found a defender in a perhaps unexpected source: a subway hero. Chad Lindsey, an actor, saw a man fall to the tracks at the Penn Station subway stop in 2009, and leapt down to help him up. He cautioned against questioning the photographer’s actions on the platform based on the picture.
“That photo makes me think one thing: misleading. It’s a still shot,” Mr. Lindsey wrote in an e-mail. “Everything about our relationship to that track bed is out of whack. We curse it, we fear it, we daily look at it curiously, ride on it, spit on it. It doesn’t look as deep as it is, the platform edge isn’t built the way you think it is, the trains are massive and move so quickly along it, and no one knows what his leg muscles will do until they are tested.”
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/03/18/nyregion/18subway.html
The New York Times
Leap to Track. Rescue Man. Clamber Up. Catch a Train.
By MICHAEL WILSON
Published: March 17, 2009
Subway heroes, as they are inevitably tagged even before the grease from the tracks is rubbed off, come along every now and then — indeed, as the story of Chad Lindsey suggests, perhaps more often than we know.
Minutes after rescuing a man who had fallen onto the subway tracks at the Penn Station stop on Monday, Mr. Lindsey managed to melt back into the anonymity of the city, escaping the notice of the police, paramedics and subway workers.
http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/localnews/2008865627_diaz16m.html
Originally published March 16, 2009 at 12:00 AM | Page modified March 16, 2009 at 2:28 AM
Nickels' choice for interim police chief facing backlash
By Steve Miletich
Seattle Times staff reporter
Seattle Deputy Police Chief John Diaz said Sunday he has accepted an offer from Mayor Greg Nickels to serve as interim police chief if Chief Gil Kerlikowske leaves to become the nation's drug czar.
However, Diaz said he planned to ask Nickels if he wants to go through with the appointment in light of efforts by some detractors in the department to damage his reputation.
Nickels is to announce his choice at 1 p.m. today.
http://www.imdb.com/name/nm1026113/bio
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Biography for
Chad Lindsey
Date of Birth
1975
On Monday, March 16, 2009, in New York City, Chad Lindsey rescued a man who fell off the platform and hit his head on the Penn Station stop subway tracks while a C train was approaching. Lindsey jumped onto the tracks to lift the man enough to allow him to be pulled back up onto the platform. A profile in the New York Times pointed out that Lindsey was appearing in the play "Kasper Hauser," in which he had to lift another actor because that character couldn't walk.
[JOURNAL ARCHIVE 05 December 2012 excerpt ends]
JOURNAL ARCHIVE: From: Kerry Burgess
Sent: Wednesday, December 05, 2012 11:31 AM
To: 'Chad Trammell'
Subject: What did I tell you.
‘Hanging chads.’
They’re doing it.
I would tell you to call the FBI but they are 100% subverted by al Qaida.
The US Justice Department is 100% committed to the success of al Qaida inside the United States.
F---ing cowards.
[JOURNAL ARCHIVE 05 December 2012 excerpt ends]
JOURNAL ARCHIVE: From: Kerry Burgess
Sent: Thursday, December 06, 2012 12:12 PM
To: 'Bobby Walraven'
Subject: "Hanging chads"
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0061747/quotes
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Memorable quotes for
Hang 'Em High (1968)
Jed Cooper: Well, I don't care how you slice it - whether there's nine men out in the plains with a dirty rope or a judge with his robe on in front of the American flag - those boys are going to be just as dead as if they'd been lynched.
Judge Adam Fenton: That's right, Cooper, just as dead - but they won't have been lynched. They would have been judged. And if you can't see the difference, you'd better take off that star right now!
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0084967/quotes
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Memorable quotes for
"The A-Team" (1983)
[opening narration]
Narrator: In 1972 a crack commando unit was sent to prison by a military court for a crime they didn't commit. These men promptly escaped from a maximum security stockade to the Los Angeles underground. Today, still wanted by the government, they survive as soldiers of fortune. If you have a problem, if no one else can help, and if you can find them, maybe you can hire the A-Team.
http://www.playbill.com/news/article/127492-NYC-Actor-Chad-Lindsey-Is-Subway-Hero-But-Dont-Call-Him-a-Superstar
PLAYBILL.COM
NYC Actor Chad Lindsey Is "Subway Hero," But Don't Call Him a Superstar
By Kenneth Jones
19 Mar 2009
New York City actor Chad Lindsey has found himself in an unexpected national spotlight since jumping onto subway tracks March 16 to retrieve a man who toppled over the edge of the platform.
Like most actors in New York, Lindsey, 33, lives a life of relative anonymity as he works a day job and auditions for theatre, film and television work. His anonymous afternoon feat at the Penn Station stop of the C train subway was reported in The New York Times' online City Room blog March 16 as a "who-was-that-hero?" tale.
The commuter that Lindsey plucked up, or "saved," if you wish (a glowing light in the subway tunnel indicated an oncoming train), was later identified as 60-year-old Theodore Larson, but no thanks were exchanged at the time. A bloody, crud-stained Lindsey had simply disappeared onto another train (to the applause of other passengers) and went on his way.
By March 17, a friend had identified Lindsey to the Times, and he was the subject of a March 18 Times story — complete with a photo of him posing (or sheepishly standing) on the C train platform.
In the age of cable TV, opinionated blogs and internet news, it took about 72 hours before Lindsey was dubbed "Subway Hero," the sort of moniker that movie directors Billy Wilder and Preston Sturges created in pictures of the '30s and '40s.
By March 19, a Google internet search for the name "Chad Lindsey" revealed 257 news articles, many of them spun from an Associated Press piece on the incident.
By March 19, he told Playbill.com, he had 168 "friend" requests to his account on the social networking site Facebook. Last week, he had "like, two," he said.
New York magazine's Daily Intel column online March 18 picked up on the story, announcing that the "Mystery Subway Hero" was not only revealed but that he was "HOT." The columnist drooled, "There's a bonus! He's a hot and sexy actor!" Lindsey's contemplative photo in the Times was characterized as "sultry" and "thoughtful."
A report on Gawker.com called him "smoldering," and said that he "sports a strong jaw and tousled hair."
"'Smoldering' is hilarious," Lindsey said. "Later in the blog they have comments and somebody wrote, 'We have obviously lowered the level of smoldering considerably.' I was like — Ouch."
The website for The Flea, the Off-Off-Broadway theatre where he is appearing in the musical Kaspar Hauser, jumped on the bandwagon and has a link to the Times subway story with a headline, "'The Subway Hero' Chad Lindsey featured in Kaspar Hauser."
The 6-foot-1-inch Lindsey has to lift a body in the Flea show, which was good training for the feat of lifting a knocked-out commuter up to the waiting arms of others on the subway platform. The world-premiere musical by Elizabeth Swados and Erin Courtney closes March 28.
Lindsey said he has appeared on at least three local TV news reports, interviewed about the subway experience.
On national TV, Lindsey was a guest on cable's "The Rachel Maddow Show," on MSNBC, on March 18. Maddow called him a hero; he displayed his shrugging, Midwestern, Capra-esque dismay that the story has blossomed so much.
Even The Petoskey News-Review, his parents' local paper in northern Michigan, picked up on the story. Lindsey was raised in Saginaw, MI.
"My mom said, 'Well, the AP called and that doesn't usually happen,'" Lindsey said, adding that his parents told him not to jump on subway tracks anymore.
Why all the coverage?
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http://www.nytimes.com/2009/03/18/nyregion/18subway.html
The New York Times
Leap to Track. Rescue Man. Clamber Up. Catch a Train.
By MICHAEL WILSON
Published: March 17, 2009
Subway heroes, as they are inevitably tagged even before the grease from the tracks is rubbed off, come along every now and then — indeed, as the story of Chad Lindsey suggests, perhaps more often than we know.
Minutes after rescuing a man who had fallen onto the subway tracks at the Penn Station stop on Monday, Mr. Lindsey managed to melt back into the anonymity of the city, escaping the notice of the police, paramedics and subway workers.
http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/localnews/2008865627_diaz16m.html
Originally published March 16, 2009 at 12:00 AM | Page modified March 16, 2009 at 2:28 AM
Nickels' choice for interim police chief facing backlash
By Steve Miletich
Seattle Times staff reporter
Seattle Deputy Police Chief John Diaz said Sunday he has accepted an offer from Mayor Greg Nickels to serve as interim police chief if Chief Gil Kerlikowske leaves to become the nation's drug czar.
However, Diaz said he planned to ask Nickels if he wants to go through with the appointment in light of efforts by some detractors in the department to damage his reputation.
Nickels is to announce his choice at 1 p.m. today.
http://www.imdb.com/name/nm1026113/bio
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Biography for
Chad Lindsey
Date of Birth
1975
On Monday, March 16, 2009, in New York City, Chad Lindsey rescued a man who fell off the platform and hit his head on the Penn Station stop subway tracks while a C train was approaching. Lindsey jumped onto the tracks to lift the man enough to allow him to be pulled back up onto the platform. A profile in the New York Times pointed out that Lindsey was appearing in the play "Kasper Hauser," in which he had to lift another actor because that character couldn't walk.
http://www.gpo.gov/fdsys/pkg/CREC-2009-03-24/html/CREC-2009-03-24-pt1-PgE750-3.htm
[Congressional Record Volume 155, Number 50 (Tuesday, March 24, 2009)]
[Extensions of Remarks]
[Page E750]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Printing Office [www.gpo.gov]
HONORING THE HEROIC ACTIONS OF CHAD LINDSEY
HON. JOSEPH CROWLEY
of new york
in the house of representatives
Tuesday, March 24, 2009
Mr. CROWLEY. Madam Speaker, I rise today to recognize the bravery of Chad Lindsey, a constituent of mine who jumped onto the New York subway tracks to rescue a fellow passenger that had fallen.
On March 16, 2009, Mr. Lindsey was waiting for the subway at Penn Station in New York City when he saw a man fall onto the track and hit his head.
Knowing that a train was coming shortly, Mr. Lindsey courageously jumped onto the subway track. The man who fell was unconscious, and despite repeated attempts did not wake up. Yet, with the lights of the train coming toward them, Mr. Lindsey knew he had to act and used all his strength to pull the man to the platform edge and, with the help of others, lifted him to safety.
Thanks to Mr. Lindsey's quick thinking and selfless actions, the injured man was taken to the hospital and later released. Mr. Lindsey, having done his part, got on the next train, ready to go back to his everyday life as a working New York City actor.
In the days since the incident, Mr. Lindsey has tried to resist the attempts of the media to label him a ``hero''. But this is exactly what he is.
He did not hesitate before rushing to help someone else in need, even though his actions put himself at risk. For Mr. Lindsey, this act of bravery came naturally.
His courageous act reminded us that there are people willing to put themselves in danger for the sake of others. He sets an example that we all should strive toward.
I applaud Chad Lindsey for his brave actions, and I am so proud to call him both a constituent and hero.
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"The A-Team"
Mexican Slayride (1983)
Country Date
USA 23 January 1983
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0504182/
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The A-Team: Season 1, Episode 1
Mexican Slayride (23 Jan. 1983)
George Peppard ... John 'Hannibal' Smith
Release Date: 23 January 1983 (USA)
http://seattletimes.com/html/localnews/2008869066_webdiaz16m.html
The Seattle Times
Originally published March 16, 2009 at 1:27 PM | Page modified March 16, 2009 at 1:49 PM
Diaz named interim Seattle police chief
By Steve Miletich and Emily Heffter
Seattle Times staff reporters
Seattle Mayor Greg Nickels today named Deputy Police Chief John Diaz as interim police chief if Chief Gil Kerlikowske leaves to become the nation's drug czar.
http://www.nato.int/sfor/engineers/mostarbridge/introduction/introduc.htm
SFOR INFORMER
Bridge over troubled waters
by Capt. Bente Ravn
First published in SFOR Informer #11, May 28, 1997
Mostar - The war in Bosnia and Hercegovina (BiH) caused much pain and destruction. Many people lost family, friends, and homes and some cities became divided. One of the best known of these is Mostar, the largest city in Hercegovina with 109,000 inhabitants. In 1522 Mostar became the headquarters of the Ottoman administration of Hercegovina. Many military missions against Venetian cities were launched from the city, which came under Austrian control from 1878-1918, and then became part of Yugoslavia. Today it is a part of BiH.
According to a pre-war consensus, Mostar’s population consisted of 20 % Bosnian-Serbs, 40 % Bosniacs and 40 % Bosnian-Croats. There are practically no longer any Bosnian-Serbs in the city, they are living in the mountains south and east of the city. Bosniacs, make up 55 % of the city’s inhabitants live east of the river. Bosnian-Croats make up the remaining 45 %, and live on the west side of the Neretva.
Mostar has a story to tell. It is the story of the Old Bridge, an elegant single span arch built over the river Neretva by the Ottoman Turks. Mostar is an old city, established in the 15th century when a small settlement began to form around an old Roman wooden bridge over the Neretva river, but the name Mostar comes from the old white limestone bridge Stari Most (most means bridge, and stari means old - hence Mostar) which was finished in 1566 after nine years construction for the Ottoman emperor Sultan Sleiman the Magnificent.
On November 9, 1993, during bitter civil war in the city, the bridge was shelled by a Bosnian Croat tank from Mt. Hum. One of its last roles had been to allow Muslim defenders of the "left bank" cross the river and take supplies to their supporters and the population that had remained there. It withstood many centuries, but it could not survive this concentrated effort to demolish it. After several direct hits, this magnificent piece of history crashed into the waters below.
http://scopeblog.stanford.edu/2010/05/image_of_the_we_15/
STANFORD MEDICINE
CARDIOVASCULAR MEDICINE, IMAGE OF THE WEEK
Image of the Week: First heart-lung transplant
John Stafford on May 30th, 2010
This week’s image comes from the Stanford Medicine Flickr photo stream. In this photo, Bruce Reitz, MD, and Norman Shumway, MD, PhD, perform the world’s first successful combined heart-lung transplant on March 9, 1981. In the four-hour operation, the heart and lungs of an anonymous donor were implanted in the chest of Mary Gohlke
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Tomorrow Is Another Day (1951)
Country Date
USA 8 August 1951 (New York City, New York)
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Pretty Woman (1990)
Country Date
USA 23 March 1990
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Pretty Woman (1990)
Vivian: You people work on commission, right?
Shop assistant: Yeah.
Vivian: Big mistake. Big. Huge.
http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/10/101
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10 USC § 101 - DEFINITIONS
(b) Personnel Generally.— The following definitions relating to military personnel apply in this title:
(1) The term “officer” means a commissioned or warrant officer.
(2) The term “commissioned officer” includes a commissioned warrant officer.
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The Terminator (1984)
Country Date
USA 26 October 1984
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A Girl in Every Port (1952)
Country Date
USA 13 February 1952 (New York City, New York)
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Iron Man (1951)
Country Date
USA 18 August 1951
http://www.azlyrics.com/lyrics/blacksabbath/ironman.html
BLACK SABBATH
"Iron Man"
Has he lost his mind?
Can he see or is he blind?
Can he walk at all,
Or if he moves will he fall?
Is he alive or dead?
Has he thoughts within his head?
We'll just pass him there
why should we even care?
He was turned to steel
in the great magnetic field
When he travelled time
for the future of mankind
Nobody wants him
He just stares at the world
Planning his vengeance
that he will soon unfurl
Now the time is here
for Iron Man to spread fear
Vengeance from the grave
Kills the people he once saved
Nobody wants him
They just turn their heads
Nobody helps him
Now he has his revenge
Heavy boots of lead
fills his victims full of dread
Running as fast as they can
Iron Man lives again!
http://www.rulit.net/books/debt-of-honor-read-76245-222.html
RuLit
Tom Clancy
Dept of Honor
"They'll never take these islands back. Never! They do not have the ability."
"Say what you please, Raizo-chan. For my part it is over."
"Find a good place to hide then!" Yamata would have slammed the phone down, but a portable didn't offer that option. "Murderers," he muttered. It had taken most of the morning to assemble the necessary information. Somehow the Americans had struck at his own council of zaibatsu. How? Nobody knew. Somehow they'd penetrated the defenses that every consultant had told him were invincible, even to the point of destroying the intercontinental missiles. "How?" he asked.
"It would seem that we underestimated the quality of their remaining air forces," General Arima replied with a shrug. "It is not the end. We still have options."
"Oh?" Not everyone was giving up, then?
"They will not wish to invade these islands. Their ability to perform a proper invasion is severely compromised by their lack of amphibious-assault ships, and even if they managed to put people on the island-to fight amidst so many of their own citizens? No." Arima shook his head. "They will not risk it. They will seek a negotiated peace. There is still a chance-if not for complete success, then for a negotiated peace that leaves our forces largely intact."
Yamata accepted that for what it was, looking out the windows at the island that he wanted to be his. The elections, he thought, could still be won. It was the political will of the Americans that needed attacking, and he still had the ability to do that.
It didn't take long to turn the 747 around, but the surprise to Captain Sato was that the aircraft was half full for the flight back to Narita. Thirty minutes after lift-off, a stewardess reported to him by phone that of the eleven people she'd asked, all but two had said that they had pressing business that required their presence at home. What pressing business might that be? he wondered, with his country's international trade for the most part reduced to ships traveling between Japan and China.
"This is not turning out well," his copilot observed an hour out. "Look down there."
It was easy to spot ships from thirty thousand feet, and of late they'd taken to carrying binoculars to identify surface ships. Sato lifted his pair and spotted the distinctive shapes of Aegis destroyers still heading north. On a whim he reached down to flip his radio to a different guard frequency.
"JAL 747 calling Mutsu, over."
"Who is this?" a voice instantly replied. "Clear this frequency at once!"
"This is Captain Torajiro Sato. Call your fleet commander!" he ordered with his own command voice. It took a minute.
"Brother, you shouldn't be doing this," Yusuo chided. Radio silence was as much a formality as a real military necessity. He knew that the Americans had reconnaissance satellites, and besides, his group's SPY radars were all up and radiating. If American snooper aircraft were about, they'd know where his squadron was. It was something he would have considered with confidence a week before, but not now.
"I merely wanted to express our confidence in you and your men. Use us for a practice target," he added.
In Mutsu's CIC, the missile techs were already doing exactly that, but it wouldn't do to say so, the Admiral knew.
1980 film "The Final Countdown" DVD video:
01:32:31
USS Nimitz CVN 68 Strike Leader: Strike Force, this is Strike Leader. Return to base. Mission aborted.
USS Nimitz CVN 68 F-14 Tomcat pilot: Mission aborted? But we can see them?
USS Nimitz CVN 68 F-14 Tomcat pilot: Shit, they're going to let the Japs do it again.
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/10/24/nyregion/24CND-AIR.html
The New York Times
For Concorde, Economics Trumped Technology
By EDWARD WONG
Published: October 24, 2003
LONDON, Oct. 24 — Imagine a world where Porsche came out with its 911 series shortly after Henry Ford invented the Model T, only to take its sleek roadsters off the street because they became expensive to maintain and appealed to only the most elitist of drivers.
That is essentially what transpired Friday morning when the final Concorde flight touched down here at Heathrow International Airport. With the shutdown of the service by British Airways , and by Air France last May, supersonic commercial travel became a thing of the past. Technology took a step backward. Tears flowed freely, from the tarmac here to boardrooms in Manhattan.
It is unlikely that supersonic commercial flight, at least on the scale of the Concorde, will be revived anytime in the near future, largely because the Concorde showed that such an operation was not financially viable, industry executives and experts say.
http://www.cnn.com/2003/WORLD/europe/10/24/concorde.final/
CNN
Last Concorde flights touch down
Friday, October 24, 2003 Posted: 11:50 PM EDT (0350 GMT)
LONDON, England (CNN) -- Three Concordes have touched down in London in a spectacular finale to the era of supersonic travel.
To tears and cheers from thousands of enthusiasts on board and on the ground, the needle-nosed jets landed at Heathrow Airport, west of the British capital, in a carefully choreographed curtain-call on Friday.
The flights -- from Edinburgh, around the Bay of Biscay and finally from New York -- touched down at two-minute intervals, signaling the end to one of commercial aviation's most exciting -- and expensive -- experiments.
On the last transatlantic Concorde, pilot Mike Bannister told the applauding passengers: "Concorde was born from dreams, built from vision and operated with pride."
"Concorde is a fabulous aircraft and it has become a legend today," Reuters quoted him as saying after soaring for the last time to the edge of space and flying at twice the speed of sound.
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TOKYO ELECTRIC POWER COMPANY
Corporate Information
History
March 26, 1971 TEPCO's first nuclear power facility, the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Station's No. 1 reactor (460 MW) began operation
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Memorable quotes for
The Terminator (1984)
Sarah Connor: What's it like when you go through time?
Kyle Reese: White light. Pain. It's like being born, maybe.
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Terminator
Reese?
- you got a first name? - Kyle.
Kyle, what's it like when you go through time?
White light.
Pain.
- It's like being born maybe. - My God.
I caught one back there.
- you mean you got shot?
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Release dates for
Frankenstein: The True Story (1973) (TV)
Country Date
USA 30 November 1973
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Release dates for
Hang 'Em High (1968)
Country Date
USA 31 July 1968 (premiere)
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"Treasure Hunters"
Pilot (2006)
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USA 18 June 2006
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Pilot (18 Jun. 2006)
Release Date: 18 June 2006 (USA)
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LESA WITHEM
ASHDOWN, Ark.—Lesa Jewell Withem of Ashdown died Thursday, April 14, 2011
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"Wife Swap"
Pilot (2003)
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USA 20 September 2003
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Pilot (20 Sep. 2003)
Release Date: 20 September 2003 (USA)
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"DEA" DEA (1990)
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USA 7 September 1990
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DEA: Season 1, Episode 1
DEA (7 Sep. 1990)
Release Date: 7 September 1990 (USA)
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Biography for
Pat Hingle
Date of Birth
19 July 1924, Miami, Florida, USA
Date of Death
3 January 2009, Carolina Beach, North Carolina, USA (blood cancer)
Birth Name
Martin Patterson Hingle
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Memorable quotes for
Hang 'Em High (1968)
Jed Cooper: You're lynching those boys. Why?
Judge Adam Fenton: Why? Because of you, Cooper. Because of that beautiful, that magnificent journey you took to bring three killers to justice. Because if the law didn't hang them, the next posse that goes out will say, "Hang 'em and hang 'em high, there's no justice in Fort Grant." And if there's no justice in Fort Grant, Cooper, there will be no statehood for this territory.
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