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LouAnne Johnson is an American writer, teacher and former U.S. Navy journalist. She spent seven years as a radio-TV broadcaster and one year as a Marine Corps Officer, after graduating as Honor Woman in her Marine Corps OCS class. She was the first woman inducted into the DINFOS (Defense Information School) Hall of Fame.
Dangerous Minds is a 1995 American drama film directed by John N. Smith, written by Ronald Bass, and produced by Don Simpson and Jerry Bruckheimer.It is based on the 1992 autobiography My Posse Don't Do Homework by retired U.S. Marine LouAnne Johnson, who in 1989 took up a teaching position at Carlmont High School in Belmont, California, where most of her students were African-American and ...
In May 1996 it was announced Dangerous Minds would be adapted into a drama series for ABC's 1996-97 Fall schedule with Annie Potts playing the lead role of LouAnne Johnson who had been played by Michelle Pfeiffer in the film. [2] In May 1997, it was announced Dangerous Minds would not be returning for a second season. [3]
A fact from Dangerous Minds appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the Did you know column on 9 February 2005. The text of the entry was as follows: Did you know... that the film Dangerous Minds was based on the true story by the high school teacher Louanne Johnson, My Posse Don't Do Homework?
To make her predictions come true, she poisoned her clients with arsenic. She was arrested and found guilty for the murder of her third husband, dying in prison in 1936. Beth Carpenter of East Lyme, Connecticut, aided by her boss, hired a hitman to kill her sister Kim's partner, Buzz, for $5,000. Carpenter received life with no chance of parole.
Lorraine Toussaint (/ t uː ˈ s ɑː n t / [2] [3] born April 4, 1960) is a Trinidadian–born actress based in the United States. She is the recipient of various accolades, including a Black Reel Award, a Critics' Choice Television Award and a Screen Actors Guild Award.
This was the first capital murder case tried by Morvant. [1] Morvant stated that Hebert was resentful of her ex-husband, while her defense attorneys argued she was under a form of insanity. Dr. Alexandra Philips, the psychiatrist at Ochsner St. Anne, stated that Hebert, an evangelical Christian, had told her "Satan was in the room laughing at ...
"Till Death Do Us Part: The Barbara Stager Story", is an episode of A&E's television series American Justice, which profiled the case. [7] [8] Jerry Bledsoe wrote a book in 1994 about the case, entitled Before He Wakes: A True Story of Money, Marriage, Sex and Murder, [9] which was later made into a TV movie in 1998 with the same title starring Jaclyn Smith.