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In poor health, in 2002 the seventy-seven-year-old Franks undertook a liquidation of his horse racing and breeding operations. He died on December 31, 2003, at the WK Pierremont Health Center in Shreveport, Louisiana. In his memory, three racetracks have named races for him. In 1992, Franks was inducted into the Fair Grounds Racing Hall of Fame ...
Jesse N. Stone Jr., Lecture Hall at Southern University at Shreveport Jesse Nealand Stone Jr. (June 17, 1924 – May 14, 2001), [ 1 ] was an African-American Louisiana attorney who was appointed as an associate justice pro tempore of the Louisiana Supreme Court.
Hazel Beard (née Fain; September 16, 1930 – December 26, 2022) was an American politician who was the first woman and the first Republican to have served as mayor of Shreveport, Louisiana, since the era of Reconstruction.
His Royal Majesty Rex LXXV Christian Basinger Frierson, a fifth-generation farmer, will rule over the 75th Anniversary of the Cotillion, "L'Esprit Rococo" on April 12 at the Municipal Auditorium.
Shreveport (/ ˈ ʃ r iː v p ɔːr t / SHREEV-port) is a city in the U.S. state of Louisiana.It is the third-most populous city in Louisiana after New Orleans and Baton Rouge.The bulk of Shreveport is in Caddo Parish, of which it is the parish seat. [4]
Billie Jean Horton (née Jones; born June 6, 1933) is an American former country-music singer-songwriter and music promoter.She had high profile marriages, briefly, until his death, to country musician and singer-songwriter Hank Williams in 1952 until 1953 and subsequently to singer Johnny Horton from 1953 until 1960.
Shreveport Municipal Memorial Auditorium is a historic performance and meeting venue at 705 Elvis Presley Boulevard in Shreveport, Louisiana. It is an Art Deco building constructed between 1926 and 1929 during the administration of Mayor Lee Emmett Thomas as a memorial to the servicemen of World War I . [ 4 ]
Jim Leslie (38), a publicist and lobbyist for the government of Shreveport, Louisiana, was shot fatally in the parking lot of a Baton Rouge hotel on 9 July 1976, on his way to celebrate a legislative victory. [380] Shreveport's public safety commissioner, George W. D'Artois, was charged with ordering the murder, but died before he could face ...