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Christopher Johnson McCandless was born in Inglewood, California and spent his early childhood in El Segundo, California.He was the elder child of Wilhelmina Marie "Billie" McCandless (née Johnson) and Walter "Walt" McCandless, and had a younger sister named Carine, born in July 1971.
The Christopher Johnson McCandless Memorial Foundation, headed by McCandless's parents Billie and Walt, with the editorial and writing input of family and friends, released the book and DVD Back to the Wild: The Photographs & Writings of Christopher McCandless (2010). The material includes hundreds of McCandless's previously unseen pictures and ...
A number of heads of state and heads of government have taken their own lives, either while in office or after leaving office.National leaders who take their own lives while in office generally do so because their leadership is somehow threatened – for instance, by a coup or an invading army.
The cause is known, but the manner of death (homicide, suicide, accident) could not be determined following an investigation Different official investigations have come to different conclusions Cases where there are unofficial alternative theories about deaths – the most common theory being that the death was a homicide – can be found under ...
Into the Wild is a 2007 American biographical adventure drama film written, co-produced, and directed by Sean Penn.It is an adaptation of the 1996 non-fiction book of the same name written by Jon Krakauer and tells the story of Christopher McCandless ("Alexander Supertramp"), a man who hiked across North America into the Alaskan wilderness in the early 1990s.
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McCanles Gang (sometimes also rendered McCandless), an alleged outlaw gang in the American West of the early 1860s "Mac" McCandless, antagonist (played by Anthony Hopkins) in the film Freejack McCandles, protagonist family in the 1971 western film Big Jake
Bruce McCandless II (born Byron Willis McCandless; [1] June 8, 1937 – December 21, 2017) was an American Navy officer and aviator, electrical engineer, and NASA astronaut. In 1984, during the first of his two Space Shuttle missions, he completed the first untethered spacewalk by using the Manned Maneuvering Unit .