Lady Bird Johnson dies
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Lady Bird Johnson, the woman who became first lady just hours after President John F. Kennedy's assassination, has died, a family spokesman told CNN. She was 94. She married Lyndon Baines Johnson, the 36th U.S. president, in 1934 and proved herself to be the quintessential political wife.
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Pierre Salinger, press secretary to the  late U.S. Presidents John F. Kennedy and Lyndon Johnson and a  distinguished journalist, died of a heart attack on Saturday,  his family said on Sunday. He was 79.
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Former first lady Lady Bird Johnson, who is 94, is in a hospital in Austin, Texas, for medical tests for an undisclosed condition, a spokeswoman said on Friday.
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American jazz singer Anita O'Day, a star of the Big Band era, dies in Los Angeles at the age of 87.
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Perhaps mainly remembered for her 'beautification' work, Lady Bird Johnson forged a new role for women in the White House, shaping the way for her successors.
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Four months after the death of team patriarch Red Auerbach, Larry Bird, Kevin McHale and Danny Ainge reunited in grief Friday to say goodbye to former Boston Celtics teammate Dennis Johnson.
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The death is confirmed of the leading Welsh artist, Sir Kyffin Williams, at the age of 88.
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Laboratory tests have confirmed that a 22- year-old woman in Africa's most populous nation, Nigeria, died from the virulent H5N1 strain of bird flu last month, the World Health Organisation said.
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June Allyson, the sunny, cracked-voiced &quot;perfect wife&quot; of James Stewart, Van Johnson and other movie heroes, has died, her daughter Pamela Allyson Powell said Monday. She was 88.
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A 58-year-old Everett woman has died of eastern equine encephalitis, the second state resident to die of the disease this year, state health officials said Monday.
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Lady Bird Johnson, the former first lady who championed conservation and worked tenaciously for the political career of her husband, former President Lyndon B. Johnson, died Wednesday, a family spokeswoman said. She was 94.
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Health officials reported Nigeria's first cases of bird flu in humans Wednesday, saying one woman had died and a family member had been infected but was responding to treatment.
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LOS ANGELES  - Anita O'Day, the last of the great jazz singers spawned by the swing era, died Thursday of cardiac arrest in Los Angeles. She was 87.
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AUSTIN, Texas  -- Thousands of visitors streamed past the casket of Lady Bird Johnson as former presidents and first ladies headed to Texas for her funeral service Saturday.
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Three days of proceedings marking the death of Lady Bird Johnson will incorporate some of the great loves of her long life: the memory of her husband, the couple's Hill Country Ranch, and Texas wildflowers.
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AVIGNON, France Oct 17  - Pierre Salinger, press secretary to US presidents John F Kennedy and Lyndon Johnson died, aged 79, of a heart attack in a hospital in southern France Saturday and will be buried in the United States, his wife said early
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The former first lady was laid to rest beside President Johnson at the familyâs ranch in the Texas Hill Country.