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The brothers had told Kroc they were giving the operation, property and all, to the founding employees. In his anger, Kroc later opened a new McDonald's restaurant near the original McDonald's, which had been renamed "The Big M" because the brothers had neglected to retain rights to the name. "The Big M" closed six years later. [16]
Ben Cauley survived the crash and James Alexander was not on the plane. Also on board and killed was soul singer Otis Redding. Beechcraft Model 18: Lake Monona, Madison, Wisconsin, United States Cause undetermined Chase: United States 1974 Four of eight band members were killed (Bill Chase, Walter Clark, John Emma and Wally Yohn) Piper Twin ...
[5] [6] Among the passengers killed were Illinois congressman George W. Collins, CBS News correspondent Michele Clark [7] and Dorothy Hunt, the wife of Watergate conspirator E. Howard Hunt. [8] The crash was the first fatal accident involving a Boeing 737, which had entered airline service nearly five years earlier in February 1968.
Clark was the first African–American woman to serve as a television correspondent for CBS News. [3] As a correspondent at WBBM-TV, Clark covered the 1972 Democratic Party presidential primaries. Clark died in the December 1972 crash of United Airlines Flight 553 at Chicago's Midway Airport, while investigating the Watergate scandal. Her death ...
Pacific Air Lines Flight 773 was a Fairchild F27A Friendship airliner that crashed on May 7, 1964, near Danville, California, a suburb east of Oakland. [1] [2] The crash was most likely the first instance in the United States of an airliner's pilots being shot by a passenger as part of a murder–suicide.
Prima donna of comic opera who shot and killed a set designer and then shot herself [5] 4: Pacific Air Lines Flight 773: Contra Costa County: 1964-05-07: 44: Pilot of airliner shot during flight causing plane to crash [6] 5: 1965 Highway 101 sniper attack: Orcutt: 1965-04-25: 4: 16-year-old youth opened fire on cars traveling along the 101 ...
- Army officials today investigated the crash of a plane near Oak Ridge, Miss., in which 17 persons, two of them women, were killed." [ 85 ] The Biloxi Daily Herald reported on 16 June that the sole survivor was Sgt. R. L. Bullock of Somerset, New Jersey , an engineer on a B-17 stationed at Laredo , Texas, who was thrown clear when the plane ...
He is believed to have either died as a prisoner of war after his aircraft was downed over Haiphong, North Vietnam, or to have died in the crash of his plane. [270] 7 June 1967 James P. Brady: 59 Saskatchewan, Canada Brady, a Canadian Metis leader, and Cree friend Abraham Halkett disappeared while on a prospecting trip in northern Saskatchewan ...