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David Koch, Billionaire Who Fueled Right-Wing Movement, Dies at 79
David H. Koch, who amassed a multibillion-dollar fortune with his brother Charles from the corporate behemoth they ran and then joined him in pouring their riches into a powerful right-wing libertarian movement that helped reshape American politics, has died. He was 79.
Robert Morgenthau, Longtime Manhattan District Attorney, Dies at 99
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 Kraft, NASA's Face and Voice of Mission Control, Dies at 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.
Christopher Kraft, NASA's Face and Voice of Mission Control, Dies at 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.Robert Morgenthau, Longtime Manhattan District Attorney, Dies at 99
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.Robert Morgenthau, Longtime Manhattan District Attorney, Dies at 99
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.Jayne Wrightsman, Arts Benefactor and Doyenne of High Society, Dies at 99
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.James W. McCord Jr., Who Led the Watergate Break-In, Is Dead at 93
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.James W. McCord Jr., Who Led the Watergate Break-In, Is Dead at 93
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.Charles Van Doren, a Quiz Show Whiz Who Wasn't, Dies at 93
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.Ernest F. Hollings, Longtime South Carolina Senator, Dies at 97
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.Ernest F. Hollings, Longtime South Carolina Senator, Dies at 97
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.
Henry J. Stern, Whose Urban Domain Was Green, Dies at 83
Henry J. Stern, who presided over New York City’s emerald empire for 15 years as commissioner of parks and recreation under two mayors, surpassing all but the Napoleonic Robert Moses in tenure and enhancements to the city’s greenswards and playgrounds, died Thursday at his home in Manhattan. He was 83.
Henry J. Stern, Whose Urban Domain Was Green, Dies at 83
Henry J. Stern, who presided over New York City’s emerald empire for 15 years as commissioner of parks and recreation under two mayors, surpassing all but the Napoleonic Robert Moses in tenure and enhancements to the city’s greenswards and playgrounds, died Thursday at his home in Manhattan. He was 83.
Marian Sulzberger Heiskell, Civic Leader, Dies at 100
Marian Sulzberger Heiskell, a New York civic leader and philanthropist who led campaigns to create the Gateway National Recreation Area and restore the grandeur of theaters on 42nd Street, and who was a member of the family that controls The New York Times, died Thursday night at her home in Manhattan. She was 100.
Marian Sulzberger Heiskell, Civic Leader, Dies at 100
Marian Sulzberger Heiskell, a New York civic leader and philanthropist who led campaigns to create the Gateway National Recreation Area and restore the grandeur of theaters on 42nd Street, and who was a member of the family that controls The New York Times, died Thursday night at her home in Manhattan. She was 100.Lee Radziwill, Ex-Princess and Sister of Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis, Dies at 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.
Lee Radziwill, Ex-Princess and Sister of Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis, Dies at 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.John O. Marsh, Former Army Chief and Presidents' Adviser, Dies at 92
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.Julie Adams, Seized by Creature in 'Black Lagoon,' Dies at 92
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.
