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On March 20, 2009, Blackhand Strawman, a documentary of Kansas City's organized crime history, was released in theaters in Kansas City. On March 1, 2011, retired FBI agent William Ouseley published his history of the KC crime family from 1950 to 2000 in a book titled Mobsters in Our Midst .
William King Baggot (November 7, 1879 – July 11, 1948) was an American actor, film director, and screenwriter. He was an internationally famous movie star of the silent film era. The first individually publicized leading man in America, Baggot was referred to as "King of the Movies," "The Most Photographed Man in the World" and "The Man Whose ...
Central States Wrestling was a professional wrestling promotion based in Kansas City, Missouri from 1948 to 1988. Former employees in NWA Central States consisted of professional wrestlers , managers , play-by-play and color commentators , announcers , interviewers and referees .
The Kansas City Star and its associated publication the Kansas City Times won a Pulitzer Prize in 1982 for their 16 months of investigative coverage of the collapse. [ 31 ] A memorial was dedicated by Skywalk Memorial Foundation, a nonprofit organization established for victims of the collapse, on November 12, 2015, in Hospital Hill Park across ...
Truman's father, John Anderson Truman, traded grain commodities futures alongside Kemper until John Truman lost his fortune. John took Harry, then a teenager, to the local Democratic functions in Kansas City where Kemper was also in attendance. Kemper arranged for Truman to be a page at the 1900 Democratic National Convention in Kansas City. As ...
Donations of clothes and money are pouring in for three children who were “basically abandoned” by their mother for years, living alone in a suburban Detroit home among trash and feces, a ...
The William Chick Scarritt House was designed in 1888 by John Wellborn Root in a Châteauesque style. [1] It was built for lawyer William Chick Scarritt, [2] grandson of William Miles Chick, son of Nathan Scarritt, and father of Dorothy McKibbin. [3] It served as a nursing home from the 1940s to the 2000s. [2]
Tumbleweeds The 1939 rerelease version, with an 8-minute intro by Hart and an added synchronized soundtrack. Tumbleweeds is a 1925 American silent Western film starring and produced by William S. Hart.