Post Mortem Archive: Local Lives
Tuskegee Airmen
At the Jan. 20 inauguration of Barack Obama as the nation's 44th president, a special section was set aside for a distinguished group of veterans called the Tuskegee Airmen. Now aging and disappearing fast, they were members of an elite group of black aviators who were not allowed to serve...
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March 28, 2009; 1:54 PM ET |
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The Spy Game
John Guilsher was a quiet, modest man who spent 50 years as an officer and consultant for the CIA. For most obituaries of CIA officers, that's about all the information we get. But the story of John Ivan Guilsher is something special. For Sunday's Local Life, I was able to...
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Matt Schudel
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April 20, 2008; 5:12 AM ET |
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Variety of Life
Anyone who lived in the American West in the spring and summer of 1993 remembers the unexplained string of deaths of (mostly) rural residents. I have a vivid memory of camping in the Organ Pipe Cactus National Monument and thinking about the ways that virus can be transmitted -- while...
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Patricia Sullivan
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December 23, 2007; 12:59 PM ET |
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Obit Sleuthing
... it may not be as dramatic as Bob Woodward lurking in parking garages to get the scoop on Watergate from Deep Throat, but it felt like a small investigative triumph here on the Obits desk...
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December 1, 2007; 12:34 PM ET |
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