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"Death borders upon our birth, and our cradle stands in the
grave. Our birth is nothing but our death begun." Bishop Hall
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Welcome to another edition of Dead End.
With the passing of Martin Luther King Jr.'s widow Coretta
Scott King this week, let's take a moment to honor her
memory by hearing the love and respect that MLK had for his
wife. Please click below to view this touching video:
http://www.evtv1.com/index.asp?itemnum=1466
MLK on Wife Coretta Scott King
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CORETTA SCOTT KING, CIVIL RIGHTS ICON, DEAD AT 78
The widow of Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr., Coretta Scott
King, has died at the age of 78. King transformed the
tragedy of her husband's assassination into an inspiring
devotion enshrining his legacy of human rights and equality.
She stood by her husband's side during the hardest days of
the American civil rights movement, and after he was killed
on April 4, 1968, she kept his dream alive while also
raising their four children. She spent her days working to
keep his ideology of equality for all people at the focus
of the nation's agenda. In 1969, she opened the Martin
Luther King Jr. Center for Nonviolent Social Change, and
made sure the center became involved with the issues she
said bred violence - hunger, unemployment, voting rights
and racism. King's last public appearance was Jan. 14 at a
"Salute to Greatness" dinner in Atlanta, a fundraiser for
the King Center. It also celebrated the 20th anniversary
of Martin Luther King Jr. Day.
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WENDY WASSERSTEIN, PLAYWRIGHT, DEAD AT 55
Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright Wendy Wasserstein died in
a New York hospital Monday from complications of lymphoma at
age 55. The New York native received both the Pulitzer Prize
and a Tony Award in 1989 for her play, "The Heidi Chronicles."
Her other works include "Uncommon Women and Others," "Isn't
it Romantic," "The Sisters Rosensweig" and "An American
Daughter." She wrote the screenplay for the 1998 film "The
Object of My Affection" as well as a children's book,
"Pamela's First Musical," which was being worked into a
musical at the time of her death. Wasserstein's latest play,
"Third," recently opened at Lincoln Center's Mitzi E.
Newhouse Theatre. She is survived by her 6-year-old daughter,
Lucy Jane, her mother, a brother and a sister.
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ARTHUR BLOOM, '60 MINUTES' CREATOR, DEAD AT 63
Award-winning CBS News director Arthur Bloom, who helped
create "60 Minutes" and donated his watch for its opening
credits, has died at age 63. Bloom died of lung cancer
Saturday at his home in Grandview-on-Hudson, N.Y., the New
York Daily News reported Sunday. Bloom spent his entire 45-
year career with CBS although he only worked occasionally
in the past three years as his disease grew worse, the Daily
News said. In addition to shaping "60 Minutes," Bloom helped
train Dan Rather to take over Walter Cronkite's anchor chair
in 1981, CBS said. He was awarded the Directors Guild of
America's first Lifetime Achievement Award in News Direction
in 1995. He also received awards for CBS News' coverage of
the 1976 Democratic and Republican conventions and for "60
Minutes" in 1973.
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SHERMAN FERGUSON, JAZZ DRUMMER, DEAD AT 61
Jazz drummer Sherman Ferguson, who played on more than 80
albums with Dizzy Gillespie and George Shearing among others,
has died at age 61. Ferguson died from complications of
diabetes at his home in La Crescenta, Calif., Jan. 22, the
Los Angeles Times reported Tuesday. He was a member of the
jazz studies faculty at UCLA. Ferguson's career spanned more
than four decades. He moved from his Philadelphia home to
Los Angeles in 1976 for session work as well as teaching at
the University of California, Irvine, the California
Institute of the Arts and the Los Angeles Music Academy.
Jazz guitarist Kenny Burrell, founder and director of UCLA's
jazz studies program, told the Times Ferguson was "an extra-
ordinary talent and a major figure in the Los Angeles jazz
scene." He is survived by his wife and a sister.
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Notable deaths this week in history...
In 1963, poet Robert Frost, who won four Pulitzer Prizes for
his works, died at the age of 88.
In 1966, Buster Keaton, the poker-faced comic who amused two
generations of movie audiences, died at the age of 70.
In 1996, actor and dancer Gene Kelly, most remembered for An
American in Paris and Singin' in the Rain, died at 83.
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