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Leslie Dale Martin (April 24, 1967 – May 10, 2002) [1] was an American convicted murderer who was executed by the state of Louisiana for the June 1991 rape and murder of 19-year-old Christina Burgin. [1] He remains the most recent person executed involuntarily in Louisiana. [2] [3]
Dealey Plaza and all of the contributing buildings are part of the Westend Historic District (NRHP #78002918, [11] 1978; Dallas Landmark Historic District #H/2, [12] 1975 [13]) with the single exception of the U.S. Post Office Terminal Annex which is outside of the boundaries of that district. The Kennedy Memorial and Plaza is the only ...
Toni Jo Henry (née Annie Beatrice McQuiston; [1] January 3, 1916 – November 28, 1942) was the only woman ever to be executed in Louisiana's electric chair. [2] Married to Claude 'Cowboy' Henry, she decided to break her husband out of jail where he was serving a fifty-year sentence in the Texas State Penitentiary for murder.
Gerald James Bordelon (February 19, 1962 – January 7, 2010) [1] was an American convicted murderer and sex offender who was executed in Louisiana for murder. Bordelon was sentenced to death for the kidnapping and murder of Courtney LeBlanc, his 12-year-old stepdaughter.
An Early Marksville culture site located near Port Gibson in Claiborne County, Mississippi, on a bluff 1 mile (1.6 km) east of the Mississippi River, 2 miles (3.2 km) north of the mouth of the Big Black River. [7] The site has an extant burial mound, and may have possibly had two others in the past. The site is believed to have been occupied ...
When Dallas adopted the city's twelfth historic district in 1993, the historic overlay was bounded by East Clarendon Drive on the south and southeast, South Fleming Avenue on the southwest, Interstate-35E on the west, East 8th Street on the north from the intersection with I-35E east to the intersection with Denley Drive, thence north along ...
The Dal-Tex Building is a seven-story office building located at 501 Elm Street in the West End Historic District of downtown Dallas, Texas, United States.The building is located on the northeast corner of Elm and North Houston streets, across the street from the Texas School Book Depository in Dealey Plaza, the scene of the assassination of U.S. President John F. Kennedy on November 22, 1963.
The next year, a monument to the Prince de Polignac, a Confederate officer, was erected at the site. [7] This was the first monument at the site. [8] That same year, state congressman W. H. Farmer introduced legislation to provide $5,000 of state funds for the site. [9] Governor of Louisiana Henry L. Fuqua signed Farmer's bill into law in July ...