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248127 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tommy%20Lee%20Jones | Tommy Lee Jones | Tommy Lee Jones (born September 15, 1946) is an American actor and film director. He has received four Academy Award nominations, winning Best Supporting Actor for his performance as U.S. Marshal Samuel Gerard in the 1993 thriller film The Fugitive.
His other notable starring roles include Texas Ranger Woodrow F. Call... |
644791 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph%20Mascolo | Joseph Mascolo | Joseph Peter Mascolo (March 13, 1929 – December 8, 2016) was an American musician and dramatic actor. During his long career, he acted in numerous motion pictures and television series. He was best known for playing Stefano DiMera in 1982 on NBC's soap opera Days of Our Lives and Massimo Marone in 2001 on CBS' soap ope... |
1063371 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph%20Massino | Joseph Massino | Joseph Charles Massino (born January 10, 1943) is an American former mobster. He was a member of the Mafia and boss of the Bonanno crime family from 1991 until 2004, when he became the first boss of one of the Five Families in New York City to turn state's evidence.
Massino was a protégé of Philip Rastelli, who took c... |
1220101 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph%20Maxwell | Joseph Maxwell | Joseph "Joe" Maxwell, (10 February 1896 – 6 July 1967) was an Australian soldier, writer, and a recipient of the Victoria Cross, the highest decoration for gallantry "in the face of the enemy" that can be awarded to members of British and Commonwealth armed forces. Often described as Australia's second most decorated ... |
3558437 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph%20Magliocco | Joseph Magliocco | Joseph Magliocco (born Giuseppe Magliocco; ; June 29, 1898 – December 28, 1963), also known as "Joe Malayak" and "Joe Evil Eye", was an Italian-born New York mobster and the boss of the Profaci crime family (later to become the Colombo crime family) from 1962 to 1963. In 1963, Magliocco participated in an audacious att... |
5384103 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John%20Joseph%20Mathews | John Joseph Mathews | John Joseph Mathews (November 16, 1894 – June 16, 1979) (Osage) became one of the Osage Nation's most important spokespeople and writers, and served on the Osage Tribal Council during the 1930s. He studied at the University of Oklahoma, Oxford University, and the University of Geneva after serving as a flight instructo... |
5920469 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Murder%20of%20Hannah%20Williams | Murder of Hannah Williams | The murder of Hannah Williams was an English case in which a 14-year-old schoolgirl, Hannah Williams (May 1986 – c. 21 April 2001), was murdered after going missing during a shopping trip on 21 April 2001. Robert Howard, a convicted sex offender suspected of other murders including in his native Ireland, was convicted ... |
7040085 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samuel%20Joseph%20May | Samuel Joseph May | Samuel Joseph May (September 12, 1797 – July 1, 1871) was an American reformer during the nineteenth century who championed education, women's rights, and abolition of slavery. May argued on behalf of all working people that the rights of humanity were more important than the rights of property, and advocated for minim... |
10946647 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph%20Maria%20Gordon | Joseph Maria Gordon | Major General Joseph Maria Gordon CB (19 March 1856 – 6 September 1929) was a senior officer in the British Army, later holding the position of Commandant of the South Australian Military Forces and serving in the Second Boer War in South Africa. Gordon subsequently held the position of Chief of the General Staff in th... |
12176602 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walter%20Joseph%20Marm%20Jr. | Walter Joseph Marm Jr. | Walter Joseph "Joe" Marm Jr. (born November 20, 1941) is a retired United States Army colonel and a recipient of the United States military's highest decoration for valor, the Medal of Honor, for his actions in the Vietnam War.
Early life
Marm was born in Washington, Pennsylvania, to Walter and Dorothy Marm, a Pennsyl... |
12702784 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tommy%20Le%20Noir | Tommy Le Noir | Thomas "Tommy" E. Le Noir is a 27-year law enforcement veteran with the Arlington Police Department in Arlington, Texas. Currently serving in the Cold Case Unit, Le Noir has worked more than 20 years in the department's homicide division, solving murders.
Early life
Le Noir was born in Bryan, Texas but spent his earl... |
13632876 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph%20Macleod | Joseph Macleod | Joseph Todd Gordon Macleod (1903–1984) was a British poet, actor, playwright, theatre director, theatre historian and BBC newsreader. He also published poetry under the pseudonym Adam Drinan.
Biography
Macleod was the son of Scottish parents, and was educated at Rugby School and Balliol College, Oxford. He passed his... |
25412426 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andrew%20Jackson%20High%20School%20%28Queens%29 | Andrew Jackson High School (Queens) | Andrew Jackson High School is a defunct comprehensive high school in the Cambria Heights section in southeastern Queens, New York. The school was opened in 1937, and named after former United States President Andrew Jackson. However, the city closed down the school in 1994. At its nadir in the late 1970s, police broke ... |
26041656 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph%20Roberts%20%28motivational%20speaker%29 | Joseph Roberts (motivational speaker) | Joseph (Joe) Roberts (born November 25, 1966) also known as the "Skidrow CEO" is a Canadian motivational speaker, author, youth homelessness advocate and co-founder of The Push for Change Foundation. Roberts experienced drug addiction and chronic homelessness as a youth and entered drug treatment in 1991. Roberts work... |
27362227 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gavin%20Williamson | Gavin Williamson | Gavin Alexander Williamson (born 25 June 1976) is a British politician who has served as Member of Parliament (MP) for South Staffordshire since 2010. A member of the Conservative Party, Williamson previously served in Theresa May's Cabinet as Secretary of State for Defence from 2017 to 2019, and as Secretary of State... |
36353294 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andrew%20Jackson%20School%20%28Philadelphia%29 | Andrew Jackson School (Philadelphia) | Fanny Jackson Coppin School, previously Federal Street School and then Andrew Jackson School, is a public K-8 school located in the Passyunk Square neighborhood of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. It is a part of the School District of Philadelphia. The school was previously named for United States President Andrew Jackson ... |
40901659 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Killing%20of%20Andy%20Lopez | Killing of Andy Lopez | The fatal shooting of Andy Lopez by Sonoma County sheriff's deputy Erick Gelhaus took place on October 22, 2013, in Santa Rosa, California. 13-year-old Lopez was walking through a vacant lot and carrying an airsoft gun that was designed to resemble an AK-47 assault rifle. Gelhaus opened fire on Lopez, presumably mistak... |
46616143 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shooting%20of%20Kendall%20Carroll | Shooting of Kendall Carroll | Kendall Carroll was shot and killed on March 19, 2013, just two weeks after the fatal Albuquerque Police Department (APD) shooting of Parrish Dennison. Kendall and his brother were both involved in an officer stand off. The stand off lasted for more than four hours. Michael the younger brother surrendered midway while ... |
46767376 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Killing%20of%20Meagan%20Hockaday | Killing of Meagan Hockaday | Meagan Hockaday was a 26-year-old African American resident of Oxnard, California who was shot and killed by police officer Roger Garcia in the early hours of Saturday, March 28, 2015.
Garcia responded to a 911 call made by Hockaday's fiancé, Luis Morado, reporting a domestic dispute at The Timbers, an apartment compl... |
48644641 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Murder%20of%20Laquan%20McDonald | Murder of Laquan McDonald | The murder of Laquan McDonald took place on October 20, 2014, in Chicago, Illinois. McDonald was a 17-year-old African American youth who was fatally shot by a white Chicago Police Officer, Jason Van Dyke. Police had initially reported that McDonald was behaving erratically while walking down the street, refusing to pu... |
50778662 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rizwan%20Farook%20and%20Tashfeen%20Malik | Rizwan Farook and Tashfeen Malik | Syed Rizwan Farook (June 14, 1987December 2, 2015) and Tashfeen Malik (July 13, 1986December 2, 2015) were the two perpetrators of a terrorist attack at the Inland Regional Center in San Bernardino, California, on December 2, 2015. In the attack, they killed 14 people and injured 22 others. Both died in a shootout by l... |
51236487 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shooting%20of%20Korryn%20Gaines | Shooting of Korryn Gaines | The shooting of Korryn Gaines occurred on August 1, 2016, in Randallstown, Maryland, near Baltimore, resulting in the death of Gaines, a 23-year-old woman, and the shooting of her son, who survived. According to the Baltimore County Police Department, officers sought to serve Gaines a warrant in relation to an earlier ... |
51841197 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Killing%20of%20Joseph%20Mann | Killing of Joseph Mann | On July 11, 2016, Randy Lozoya and John Tennis, two Sacramento police officers, attempted to run over, and later shot and killed Joseph Mann, a 51-year-old mentally ill and homeless African-American man armed with a knife.
Incident
Police received 9-1-1 calls about a man standing in the street waving a knife. Dispatc... |
53941776 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Murder%20of%20Jordan%20Edwards | Murder of Jordan Edwards | On April 29, 2017, Jordan Edwards, a 15-year-old African American boy, was fatally shot by police officer Roy Oliver in Balch Springs, Texas, within the Dallas-Fort Worth metroplex. He was shot in the back of the head while riding in the front passenger's seat of a vehicle driving away from officers that attempted to s... |
56352643 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph%20Maskell | Joseph Maskell | Anthony Joseph Maskell (April 13, 1939 – May 7, 2001) was an American Catholic priest who was removed from the ministry because of sexual abuse toward female students at Archbishop Keough High School between 1969 and 1975. He served the Archdiocese of Baltimore as a counselor from 1965 to 1994. The Netflix documentary ... |
56940497 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph%20Marie%20Pi%C3%A9tri | Joseph Marie Piétri | Émile Joseph Marie Piétri (25 February 1820 – 4 January 1902), known as Joachim Pietri, was a French lawyer and public servant who was prefect of several departments, a repressive police chief of Paris in the last years of the Second French Empire and Bonapartist Senator of Corsica from 1879 to 1885.
Early years
Jose... |
57313808 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lynching%20of%20Samuel%20Smith | Lynching of Samuel Smith | Samuel Smith was a 15-year-old African-American youth who was lynched by a white mob, hanged and shot in Nolensville, Tennessee, on December 15, 1924. No one was ever convicted of the lynching.
Smith's memory was honored in June 2017 with a plaque at St. Anselm Episcopal Church in Nashville; two other lynching victims... |
58077523 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shooting%20of%20Bijan%20Ghaisar | Shooting of Bijan Ghaisar | On November 17, 2017, Bijan C. Ghaisar, a 25-year-old American, was fatally shot by US Park Police officers Lucas Vinyard and Alejandro Amaya after a vehicular chase that followed a traffic collision along the George Washington Memorial Parkway in Northern Virginia. Ghaisar was unarmed and died ten days later in a hosp... |
62050220 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Killing%20of%20Atatiana%20Jefferson | Killing of Atatiana Jefferson | Atatiana Koquice Jefferson, a 28-year-old woman, was shot to death in her home by a police officer in Fort Worth, Texas, United States, in the early morning of October 12, 2019. Police arrived at her home after a neighbor called a non-emergency number, stating that Jefferson's front door was open. Police body camera fo... |
63948073 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Killing%20of%20Breonna%20Taylor | Killing of Breonna Taylor | Breonna Taylor, a 26-year-old African-American woman, was fatally shot in her Louisville, Kentucky, apartment on March 13, 2020, when white officers Jonathan Mattingly, Brett Hankison, and Myles Cosgrove of the Louisville Metro Police Department (LMPD) forced entry into the apartment as part of an investigation into dr... |
65404306 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Breonna%20Taylor%20protests | Breonna Taylor protests | The Breonna Taylor protests are an ongoing series of police brutality protests surrounding the shooting of Breonna Taylor. Taylor was a 26-year-old African-American woman who was fatally shot in her Louisville, Kentucky, apartment on March 13, 2020, by plainclothes officers of the Louisville Metro Police Department con... |
65551181 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Killing%20of%20Alvin%20Cole | Killing of Alvin Cole | On the evening of February 2, 2020, Alvin Cole, a 17-year-old black male, was shot by a Wauwatosa, Wisconsin black male police officer Joseph Mensah, outside Mayfair Mall in Wauwatosa. The shooting occurred after Cole refused a command from the police to drop the stolen gun he was holding and Cole fired a bullet as he ... |
66862513 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Killing%20of%20Christian%20Hall | Killing of Christian Hall | Christian Joseph Hall (October 31, 2001 – December 30, 2020) was a 19-year-old Chinese American man from Stroudsburg, Pennsylvania who was shot and killed by Pennsylvania State troopers on December 30, 2020. The police had been responding to a report about Hall, who was suspected to be suicidal and found with a firearm... |
67463653 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Killing%20of%20Ma%27Khia%20Bryant | Killing of Ma'Khia Bryant | On April 20, 2021, Ma'Khia Bryant, a 16-year-old Black girl, was fatally shot by police officer Nicholas Reardon in southeast Columbus, Ohio. Released body camera and security camera footage show Bryant brandishing a knife and charging two women consecutively, leading up to the moment Officer Reardon fired four shots; ... |
67548379 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Killing%20of%20Anthony%20Alvarez | Killing of Anthony Alvarez | On March 31, 2021, Anthony Alvarez, a 22-year-old Latino man, was shot and killed by a Chicago Police Department officer in the Portage Park neighborhood on the Northwest Side of Chicago. Police body camera footage of Alvarez' death was released on April 28, showing Alvarez being shot in the back while fleeing from pol... |
67915951 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Killing%20of%20Iremamber%20Sykap | Killing of Iremamber Sykap | On April 5, 2021, Micronesian 16-year-old Iremamber Sykap was killed on Kalākaua Avenue when Honolulu police officer Geoffrey Thom fired 10 rounds at Sykap through the rear window of a stolen car after it had stopped at an intersection following a police pursuit. Thom was charged with second-degree murder for the shoot... |
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