PART ONE: O:) Remembering - Nov 5: ***1960 – Ward Bond, American actor and singer (b. 1903) Wardell Edwin Ward Bond (April 9, 1903 – November 5, 1960) was an American film actor whose rugged appearance and easygoing charm were featured in over 200 films and the television series Wagon Train. He is best known for his roles as Bert in Its a Wonderful Life (1946) and Captain Clayton in The Searchers (1956). A legend has developed that country singer Johnny Horton died in an automobile accident while driving to see Bond at a hotel in Dallas to discuss a possible role in the fourth season of Wagon Train. Although Horton was indeed killed in a car crash at 1:30 a.m. on November 5, 1960, and Bond died from a massive heart attack at noon that same day, the two events were unrelated. Horton was on his way from Austin to Shreveport, Louisiana, not Dallas. Bond was in Dallas to attend a football game between SMU and Texas A&M at the Cotton Bowl. Bond was 57 at the time of his death; John Wayne gave the eulogy at his funeral..... † ***1960 – Johnny Horton, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (b. 1925) John Gale Johnny Horton (April 30, 1925 – November 5, 1960) was an American country music and rockabilly singer most famous for his semi-folk, so-called saga songs which began the historical ballad craze of the late 1950s and early 1960s. With them, he had several major successes, most notably in 1959 with the song The Battle of New Orleans (written by Jimmy Driftwood), which was awarded the 1960 Grammy Award for Best Country & Western Recording. The song was awarded the Grammy Hall of Fame Award, and in 2001 ranked No. 333 of the Recording Industry Association of Americas Songs of the Century. His first hit, a number 1 song in 1959, was When Its Springtime in Alaska (Its Forty Below). Tommy Tomlinson flew in from Nashville, where he was producing a duet album with Jerry Kennedy (Tom and Jerry). Horton used the morning to make arrangements to go duck hunting with Claude King of Shreveport once he had returned from Austin and he also telephoned Johnny Cash for a chat. Cash declined to accept the call, an omission he regretted until the day he died. Against his wifes wishes, Franks arose from his sickbed, and they began traveling to Austin. When they got to the Skyline club, Horton stayed in his dressing room, saying that a drunk would kill him if he went near the bar. After the show, they started the 220-mile (350 km) journey back to Shreveport. Tomlinson was in the back, observing that Horton was driving too fast—Franks was asleep in the front. About 2 a.m., near Milano, Texas, Horton was crossing a bridge when a truck came at them, hitting both sides of the bridge before plunging into Hortons Cadillac. Horton had in the past avoided head-on collisions by driving into ditches, but on the narrow bridge he had no such opportunity. He was still breathing when he was pulled from the car but died en route to the hospital. The 19-year-old truck driver, James Davis, a student at Texas A&M University in College Station en route to his family residence in Brady in Central Texas, was intoxicated. Franks suffered head injuries, and young Tomlinson had multiple leg fractures, which nine months later required amputation of his left leg. Davis only suffered a broken ankle with other cuts and bruises............ † youtube/watch?v=ow_Dk4E33X4 ***1977 – Guy Lombardo, Canadian-American violinist and conductor (b. 1902) Gaetano Alberto Guy Lombardo (June 19, 1902 – November 5, 1977) was a Canadian-American bandleader and violinist. Forming The Royal Canadians in 1924 with his brothers Carmen, Lebert, and Victor and other musicians from his hometown, Lombardo led the group to international success, billing themselves as creating The Sweetest Music This Side of Heaven. The Lombardos are believed to have sold between 100 and 300 million phonograph records during their lifetimes. On November 5, 1977 Lombardo suffered a fatal heart attack...... † ***1979 – Al Capp, American cartoonist (b. 1909) Alfred Gerald Caplin (September 28, 1909 – November 5, 1979), better known as Al Capp, was an American cartoonist and humorist best known for the satirical comic strip Lil Abner, which he created in 1934 and continued writing and (with help from assistants) drawing until 1977. He also wrote the comic strips Abbie an Slats (in the years 1937-45) and Long Sam (1954). Capps final years were marked by advancing illness and by family tragedy. In October 1977, one of his two daughters died; a few weeks later, a beloved granddaughter was killed in a car accident. A lifelong chain smoker, Capp died in 1979 from emphysema....... †
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