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His family relocated to California's San Joaquin Valley when he was six years old. This move was part of the "Okie migration" of the 1930s in which many midwest farming families, devastated by the Dust Bowl, headed west to California to start over. [2] He was the Marlboro Man from 1968 until 1989. [2]
The D-A-D song "Marlboro Man" is about the advertisements featuring the character. The Neil Young song "Big Green Country" refers to the Marlboro man as "the cancer cowboy", who was "pure as driven snow" before his death. The World Entertainment War song "Marlboro Man, Jr." begins, "The Marlboro Man is dead Long live the Marlboro Man! In our ...
FREEHOLD - The wife of a Marlboro man who was accused of helping her husband cover up a New Year’s murder at their Texas Road home, has agreed to plead guilty to two counts of endangering the ...
Gayno Gilbert Smith (January 23, 1938 – May 16, 2005) [1] was an American mass murderer and serial killer who killed six of his family members in Iowa between 1961 and 1962. Before the murders, Smith had been living in Denver, but due to problems there had come to Martinsburg, Iowa to live with his stepmother. When he had problems with her as ...
William Leo Thourlby (January 22, 1924 – April 15, 2013) was an American actor, model and writer. He was known for his rugged, cowboy look when he appeared as the face of the Marlboro Man campaign in the 1950s. [1]
The FBI Files episode "Murdering Cowboy" chronicled the murder and the subsequent events. Featured in Cort Conley's book (pp. 201–262) published in 1994 titled Idaho Loners: Hermits, Solitaries, and Individualists. Song "Claude Dallas" on the album Dalas! (2003) - a song by Czech singer Jan Vyčítal and his band Greenhorns.
David Owen Brooks (February 12, 1955 – May 28, 2020) [1] was an American convicted murderer and accomplice of serial killer Dean Corll, who, along with Elmer Wayne Henley, abducted, raped, tortured, and murdered at least 28 boys and young men between 1970 and 1973 in Houston, Texas. The crimes, which became known as the Houston Mass Murders ...
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