JFK Assassination Witness Summers Dies at 80
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Malcolm Summers, one of the closest eyewitnesses to the John F. Kennedy assassination, has died of a heart ailment at age of 80, a funeral home said on Monday.
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Almost eight years after John F. Kennedy Jr. died in a plane crash off the coast of Martha's Vineyard, federal officials released a brief audio clip Tuesday of a conversation between a concerned airport intern and a Federal Aviation Administration dispatcher related to the fatal flight.
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Jeannine F. Prevot Kennedy, 84, the Paris-born hostess for three French restaurants in Washington for almost a quarter-century, died Dec.
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Elliot Welles, a Holocaust survivor who found the officer who ordered his mother's death and turned that personal triumph into a relentless crusade to track down fugitive Nazis, has died. He was 79.
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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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Patricia Kennedy Lawford, the sister of President John F. Kennedy and wife of actor Peter Lawford, died at her New York home of complications of pneumonia on Sunday, according to a spokeswoman for Sen. Edward M. Kennedy. She was 82.
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British-born author Arthur Hailey, who penned 11 best-sellers, has reportedly died at his home in the Bahamas. Hailey, who was 84, died in his sleep on Wednesday at his New Providence island home, his wife Sheila said.
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A former CIA operative who became an outspoken critic of the agency has died in Cuba aged 72.
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By Michael E. Young, The Dallas Morning News  Feb. 8--A window prominently displayed for a dozen years at The Sixth Floor Museum as Lee Harvey Oswald's sniper's perch in the assassination of President John F. Kennedy is up for auction on eBay.   The starting price: $100,000.
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A U.S. government aid official who was critically wounded in a shooting attack on his vehicle in Khartoum on Tuesday has died, a U.S. embassy official said.
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RAMALLAH, West Bank  - George Habash, the founder of a radical movement that staged hijackings and kidnappings to highlight the Palestinian struggle, died in Jordan on Saturday, Palestinian officials said. He was 80.
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Pierre Salinger, who was press  secretary to Presidents John F. Kennedy and Lyndon Johnson,  died of a heart attack on Saturday at a hospital near his home  in Le Thor, France, his wife told The Washington Post.
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SARASOTA, Florida  - Veteran journalist John W. "Pat" Heffernan, the only foreigner to have been president of the prestigious National Press Club in Washington, died on Tuesday after a brief illness, friends said. He was 96.
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Pierre Salinger, President John F. Kennedy&#39;s press secretary and later ABC&#39;s European correspondent, has died of h Salinger, who had been in declining health for four years
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Former Texas first lady Nellie  Connally, who was riding in the limousine with President John  F. Kennedy when he was assassinated in 1963, has died at the  age of 87, a family friend said on Saturday.
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Janet Leigh, the actress best known for her portrayal of the young blonde in the shower stabbing scene in Alfred Hitchcock&#39;s &quot;Psycho,&quot; has died at the age of 77.
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Lady Bird Johnson, who quietly served as one of the most trusted advisers to her husband President Lyndon Johnson, died of natural causes on Wednesday at the age of 94, family spokeswoman Elizabeth Christian said.