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James Henry Rupp Jr. was born in Kearny, New Jersey and graduated from Kearny High School in 1936. He did post-graduate work at Staunton Military Academy in 1937. Rupp received a bachelor's degree in business and economics from Monmouth College, Illinois, where he played football on the Fighting Scotts. [1]
Bradley Walker is a native of Athens, Alabama. He was born with muscular dystrophy, and has been in a wheelchair all his life. He was a student at East Limestone High School where he played percussion in the school band. [1] Walker started singing when he was two or three years old, and began performing in public when he was four. [2]
More than 2,000 people attended Bradley's funeral service at Riverside Church in New York. Among the attendees were the Reverends Al Sharpton and Jesse Jackson , musicians Jimmy Buffett and Wynton Marsalis , journalists Dan Rather, Walter Cronkite , and Charlayne Hunter-Gault , and former U.S. president Bill Clinton . [ 35 ]
The Decatur Cemetery is the oldest burial ground in the Atlanta metropolitan area, and is believed to have been used even before Decatur's 1823 incorporation.. In 1832, an act by the local legislature created “Commissioners for the Decatur Burial Ground.” [3] [2] Numerous Civil War veterans were buried in the Decatur Cemetery, mostly in the 8-acre (3.2 ha) area now referred to as "The Old ...
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Curtis Hutson (July 10, 1934 – March 5, 1995) was an Independent Fundamental Baptist pastor and editor of The Sword of the Lord (1980-1995).. Curtis Hutson was born in Decatur, Georgia, to a barber and hair dresser, the second of five children.
During his service, Bradley visited the White House over 300 times and was frequently featured on the cover of Time magazine. Bradley was also an outspoken supporter of providing aid and improving relations with Yugoslavia , stating in an address to Congress on 30 November 1950, that "In the first place, if we could even take them out of the ...
The Rev. Alfred F. Wuensch founded the Decatur Review as a weekly newspaper in April 1872. [7] C.N. Walls founded the Daily Herald in 1878. In 1931, the morning Herald, by this time owned by the Lindsay family, and the evening, daily, Decatur Daily Review, owned by the Schaub family, merged their operations.