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Unidentified man in a Confederate uniform. Contrary to newspaper accounts at the time, Dula did not serve in Colonel Zebulon Vance's 26th North Carolina Infantry regiment, he had instead served in the 42nd North Carolina Infantry regiment, under Company K. [9] Also, rumors that he "played the banjo" in the army band for Vance's benefit and entertained the colonel with his antics were false.
"Tom Dooley" is a traditional North Carolina folk song based on the 1866 murder of a woman named Laura Foster in Wilkes County, North Carolina by Tom Dula (whose name in the local dialect was pronounced "Dooley"). One of the more famous murder ballads, a popular hit version recorded in 1958 by The Kingston Trio reached No. 1 on the Billboard Hot 100 singles chart, was in the top 10 on the ...
Tom Dula, inspiration for the song "Tom Dooley", for murder (1 May 1868) Henry Wirz, Confederate commandant of the notorious Andersonville POW camp (10 November 1865) George Atzerodt, conspirator in the assassination of Abraham Lincoln (7 July 1865) David Herold, conspirator in the assassination of Abraham Lincoln (7 July 1865)
Among his clients was former Confederate soldier, Tom Dula, who was accused of murdering his girlfriend Laura Foster in 1866. [16] While he succeeded in having the trial moved from Wilkesboro to Statesville, believing Dula could not receive a fair trial in Wilkes County, Dula was nevertheless convicted and, although he was given a new trial on ...
Dooley, one critic said, is an example of "celebrity sainthood" and the "intersection of show business and mysticism occupied the space where Tom Dooley was perhaps most at home"; nevertheless, he "helped to pull American Catholicism away from its insular, angry anti-Communism" and he lived a life that does not "invite facile judgment."
Charles Dolan, a titan of the early cable industry who owned Cablevision, launched HBO and AMC Network and later branched out into iconic New York venues and sports teams, has died. He was 98.
Tom Selleck (right) with co-star John Hillerman in 'Magnum, P.I.' in 1981 Related: Tom Selleck Reflects on His 'Lucky Life,' 'Accidental' Career and 4 Decades of Loving Wife Jillie (Exclusive)
The Legend of Tom Dooley is a 1959 American Western film directed by Ted Post and starring Michael Landon, Jo Morrow, Jack Hogan, Richard Rust, Dee Pollock and Ken Lynch.It was based on the 90-year-old folk song "Tom Dooley", which had been inspired by the real-life case of convicted murderer Tom Dula.