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DEATHS ; Notable Passings; The Thread to Pay Last Respects

Lean'n'mean

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British film director, writer & producer, Michael Apted has died aged 79. His name might not ring any bells but you've probably heard of a few of his movies; ' Gorky Park' (1983) ....'Gorillas in The Mist' (1988).....'Thunderheart' (1992)....'The World is Not Enough' (1999)

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OldStrummer

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Dang. Another one.

David Darling (March 4, 1941 – January 8, 2021) was an American cellist and composer. In 2010, he won the Grammy Award for Best New Age Album. He has performed and recorded with Bobby McFerrin, Paul Winter Consort, Ralph Towner and Spyro Gyra and released many solo albums. Among these were 15 recordings for ECM.

More info about him on his web site: https://www.daviddarling.com/

David Darling re-introduced me (or maybe even introduced me) to the music of the cello. I have several of his CDs, and they are evocative, emotional and original. Eight String Religion is a remarkable recording. Curl up with something or somebody nice and put this on. Lovely!
 

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James Leavelle, the detective who was handcuffed to Lee Harvey Oswald as he was shot dead by Jack Ruby has died at the age of 99. Leavelle died Thursday at a hospital in Denver. The former Dallas homicide detective was handcuffed to Oswald as he was led through a police station basement on Nov. 24, 1963, two days after the assassination of President John F. Kennedy. Ruby, a nightclub owner, stepped out of the crowd and fired a fatal shot at Oswald. The moment was captured in one of the most famous photographs of all time which showed Leavelle in his white stetson reacting with shock.

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In the last month, I have unwittingly purchased two of the hats featured prominently in Bob Jackson's infamous image here, a vintage Stetson Open Road Twenty like the detective is wearing, and a gray Cavanagh with a black band like Jack Ruby wears. A fellow newspaper photographer worked with Jackson after he left Dallas and went on to Colorado. My friend tells the story that Jackson was allowed to keep the copyright to this image. He was a staffer at the Dallas Times Herald at the time and won the 1964 Pulitzer prize for the image. Staff photogs being allowed to keep the copyright to their work is unheard of nowadays. There were other photographers on the scene that day but Jackson captured the 'decisive moment.' A fantastic image for a horrific time.
 

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A man at the centre of one of Canada's darkest moments, former British diplomat James Cross, has died, aged 99.

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/montreal/james-cross-october-crisis-obituary-flq-1.5879766

A Quebec separatist movement, the FLQ (Front de la Liberation du Quebec), moved from politics to terrorism in 1970. During the "October Crisis", James Cross was kidnapped from his home, allowed to dress and kiss his wife good bye, then taken hostage, with demands being met, failing which he would be killed.

Later, Quebec Labour Minister Pierre Laporte was also kidnapped. The two hostages never met while in captivity. PM Pierre Trudeau invoked the War Measures Act, and the Canadian Army deployed to the streets of Montreal. Eventually the place of captivity was located, but Pierre Laporte was found murdered.

Cross was released on condition the terrorists were allowed passage to Cuba. Amazingly this was agreed to and he was released.

Best passage from the story:

"Throughout the ordeal, however, Cross displayed a sense of calm that often impressed his kidnappers, and may have ensured his survival.

"Cross was calmer than us," Jacques Lanctôt, who headed the FLQ cell that kidnapped him, told a CBC podcast last year.

Cross acknowledged afterward he had tried to remain friendly with his captors, joking with them and inquiring about their political beliefs. But that, he recalled, was merely a survival tactic.

"I hated the lot of them and would have cheerfully killed them if the opportunity arose," the diplomat said in an 1995 account of the kidnapping that is part of an oral history project at Cambridge University."


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