Robert M. Morgenthau, a courtly Knickerbocker patrician who waged war on crime for more than four decades as the chief federal prosecutor for Southern New York state and as Manhattan’s longest-serving district attorney, died Sunday in Manhattan. He was 99.
Christopher C. Kraft Jr., the legendary founder of NASA’s mission control, who directed America’s first piloted orbital flights, oversaw the Apollo 11 lunar landing and was director of the Johnson Space Center in Houston, died on Monday in Houston, two days after the 50th anniversary of that historic moment on the moon. He was 95.
Christopher C. Kraft Jr., the legendary founder of NASA’s mission control, who directed America’s first piloted orbital flights, oversaw the Apollo 11 lunar landing and was director of the Johnson Space Center in Houston, died on Monday in Houston, two days after the 50th anniversary of that historic moment on the moon. He was 95.World7 Aug 2024
Robert M. Morgenthau, a courtly Knickerbocker patrician who waged war on crime for more than four decades as the chief federal prosecutor for Southern New York state and as Manhattan’s longest-serving district attorney, died Sunday in Manhattan. He was 99.World7 Aug 2024
Robert M. Morgenthau, a courtly Knickerbocker patrician who waged war on crime for more than four decades as the chief federal prosecutor for Southern New York state and as Manhattan’s longest-serving district attorney, died Sunday in Manhattan. He was 99.World6 Aug 2024
Jayne Wrightsman, a benefactor of the arts and grande dame of New York society whose celebrated collections of decorative and fine arts surrounded her life with grandeur and became treasures of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, died Saturday at her home in Manhattan. She was 99.World6 Aug 2024
James W. McCord Jr., a security expert who led a band of burglars into the shambles of the Watergate scandal and was the first to expose the White House crimes and cover-ups that precipitated the downfall of the Nixon administration in 1974, died June 15, 2017, at his home in Douglassville, Pennsylvania. He was 93.World6 Aug 2024
James W. McCord Jr., a security expert who led a band of burglars into the shambles of the Watergate scandal and was the first to expose the White House crimes and cover-ups that precipitated the downfall of the Nixon administration in 1974, died June 15, 2017, at his home in Douglassville, Pennsylvania. He was 93.World6 Aug 2024
Charles Van Doren, a Columbia University English instructor and a member of a distinguished literary family who confessed to Congress and a disillusioned nation in 1959 that his performances on a television quiz show had been rigged, died Tuesday in Canaan, Connecticut. He was 93.World6 Aug 2024
Ernest F. Hollings, a South Carolina Democrat who served 38 years in the U.S. Senate in an era of rising prosperity and often painful accommodation to racial tolerance in his state and across the South, died Saturday at his home in Isle of Palms, South Carolina. He was 97.World6 Aug 2024
Ernest F. Hollings, a silver-haired South Carolina Democrat who served 38 years in the U.S. Senate in an era of rising prosperity and often painful accommodation to racial tolerance in his state and across the South, died Saturday at his home in Isle of Palms, South Carolina. He was 97.
Lee Radziwill, the free-spirited former princess who shared the qualities of wealth, social status and ambition with her older sister, Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis, but who struggled as an actor, decorator and writer to share her sister’s aura of success, died Friday at her home in Manhattan. She was 85.
Lee Radziwill, the free-spirited former princess who shared the qualities of wealth, social status and ambition with her older sister, Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis, but who struggled as an actor, decorator and writer to share her sister’s aura of success, died Friday at her home in Manhattan. She was 85.World6 Aug 2024
John O. Marsh Jr., a former conservative Democratic congressman from Virginia who worked as a White House adviser to three Republican presidents and became the nation’s longest-serving secretary of the Army in the 1980s, died Monday in Raphine, Virginia. He was 92.World6 Aug 2024
Julie Adams, a Hollywood film and television actress for more than six decades widely remembered as the terrorized swimmer in the 1954 cult classic “Creature From the Black Lagoon,” died Sunday in Los Angeles. She was 92.World6 Aug 2024
John O. Marsh Jr., a former conservative Democratic congressman from Virginia who worked as a White House adviser to three Republican presidents and became the nation’s longest-serving secretary of the Army in the 1980s, died Monday in Raphine, Virginia. He was 92.World6 Aug 2024
Fred Thompson, who founded a Brooklyn track club for girls and young women in 1963 and coached national and Olympic medalists as he championed the cause of female track-and-field athletes for a half-century, died Tuesday at his home in Brooklyn, New York. He was 85.
Florence Knoll Bassett, a pioneering designer and entrepreneur who created the modern look and feel of America’s postwar corporate office with sleek furniture, artistic textiles and an uncluttered, free-flowing workplace environment, died Friday in Coral Cables, Florida. She was 101.World6 Aug 2024
Harris Wofford, a former U.S. senator from Pennsylvania whose passion for getting people involved helped create John F. Kennedy’s Peace Corps, Bill Clinton’s AmeriCorps and other service organizations and made him America’s volunteer-in-chief, died Monday night in Washington. He was 92.World6 Aug 2024
Harris Wofford, a former U.S. senator from Pennsylvania whose passion for getting people involved helped create John F. Kennedy’s Peace Corps, Bill Clinton’s AmeriCorps and other service organizations and made him America’s volunteer-in-chief, died Monday night in Washington. He was 92.
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