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John Fitzgerald Kennedy Jr.,often referred to as John-John or JFK Jr.,was an American attorney,journalist,and magazine publisher. He was a son of President John F. Kennedy and First Lady Jacqueline Kennedy.
Ralph David Abernathy Sr. was an American civil rights activist and Baptist minister. He was ordained in the Baptist tradition in 1948. As a leader of the civil rights movement,he was a close friend and mentor of Martin Luther King Jr. He collaborated with King and E. D. Nixon to create the Montgomery Improvement Association,which led to the Montgomery bus boycott and co-created and was an executive board member of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC). He became president of the SCLC following the assassination of King in 1968;he led the Poor People's Campaign in Washington,D.C.,as well as other marches and demonstrations for disenfranchised Americans. He also served as an advisory committee member of the Congress on Racial Equality (CORE).
Ralph Cookerly Wilson Jr. was an American businessman and sports executive. He was best known as the founder and owner of the Buffalo Bills,a team in the National Football League (NFL). He was one of the founding owners of the American Football League (AFL),the league with which the NFL merged in 1970,and was the last of the original AFL owners to own his team. At the time of his death he was the oldest owner in the NFL,at age 95,and the third-longest tenured owner in NFL history. He was inducted into the Pro Football Hall of Fame in 2009.
Ralph Webster Yarborough was an American politician and lawyer. He was a Texas Democratic politician who served in the United States Senate from 1957 to 1971 and was a leader of the progressive wing of his party. Along with Senate Majority Leader Lyndon B. Johnson and Speaker of the House Sam Rayburn,but unlike most Southern congressmen,Yarborough refused to support the 1956 Southern Manifesto,which called for resistance to the racial integration of schools and other public places. Yarborough voted in favor of the Civil Rights Acts of 1957,1960,1964,and 1968,as well as the 24th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution,the Voting Rights Act of 1965,and the confirmation of Thurgood Marshall to the U.S. Supreme Court. Yarborough was the only senator from a state that was part of the Confederacy to vote for all five bills.
The Kennedy Center Honors are annual honors given to those in the performing arts for their lifetime of contributions to American culture. They have been presented annually since 1978,culminating each December in a gala celebrating five honorees in the Kennedy Center Opera House in Washington,D.C. While the awards are primarily given to individuals,they have occasionally been given to couples or musical groups,as well as to one Broadway musical and one television show.
Santo Trafficante Jr. was among the most powerful Mafia bosses in the United States. He headed the Trafficante crime family from 1954 to 1987 and controlled organized criminal operations in Florida and Cuba,which had previously been consolidated from several rival gangs by his father,Santo Trafficante Sr.
Robert Francis Kennedy Jr.,also known by his initials RFK Jr.,is an American politician,environmental lawyer,anti-vaccine activist,and conspiracy theorist. He is the chairman and founder of Children's Health Defense,an anti-vaccine advocacy group that is a leading proponent of COVID-19 vaccine misinformation,and an independent candidate in the 2024 presidential election. A member of the Kennedy family,he is a son of U.S. attorney general and senator Robert F. Kennedy,and nephew of U.S. president John F. Kennedy and senator Ted Kennedy.
The following is a list of engagements that took place in 1862 during the American Civil War. During the summer and early spring of the year,Union forces gained several successes over the Confederacy,seizing control of Missouri,northern Arkansas,Kentucky,and western Tennessee,along with several coastal areas. Confederate forces defended the capital of Richmond,Virginia,from Union assaults,and then launched counter–offensives into Kentucky and Maryland,both of which end in Union victories.
John Victor Shea III is an American actor,film producer,and stage director. His career began on Broadway where he starred in Yentl, subsequently winning his first major award,the 1975 Theatre World Award. Shortly after his Off-Broadway career began,Lee Strasberg invited Shea to join the Actors Studio where he spent several years studying method acting.
Thomas S. Garrick is a retired American professional basketball player who was selected by the Los Angeles Clippers in the second round of the 1988 NBA draft. He played guard in four NBA seasons,mainly for the Clippers. Garrick's best year as a Clipper was during the 1989–90 NBA season when he averaged 7.0 ppg in 73 games. He played collegiately at the University of Rhode Island.
Joseph Francis Shea was an American aerospace engineer and NASA manager. Born in the New York City borough of the Bronx,he was educated at the University of Michigan,receiving a Ph.D. in Engineering Mechanics in 1955. After working for Bell Labs on the radio inertial guidance system of the Titan I intercontinental ballistic missile,he was hired by NASA in 1961. As Deputy Director of NASA's Office of Manned Space Flight,and later as head of the Apollo Spacecraft Program Office,Shea played a key role in shaping the course of the Apollo program,helping to lead NASA to the decision in favor of lunar orbit rendezvous and supporting "all up" testing of the Saturn V rocket. While sometimes causing controversy within the agency,Shea was remembered by his former colleague George Mueller as "one of the greatest systems engineers of our time".
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Steadman S. Shealy,Jr. is an American attorney and former college football quarterback. He is best known as the starting quarterback on the University of Alabama's 1979 national championship team. Shealy was also a member of the 1978 national championship team,but played back-up to Jeff Rutledge. After his collegiate career he was twice elected to the Alabama State Board of Education in 1986 and 1990 as a Democrat.
Kennedy is a 1983 American-British five-hour television miniseries written by Reg Gadney and directed by Jim Goddard. The miniseries is a biography of the 1961–63 presidency of John F. Kennedy. It was co-produced by Alan Landsburg Productions and Central Independent Television and originally aired in the United States starting on November 20,1983,and concluding on November 22,the twentieth anniversary of Kennedy's assassination.
Shea Sydney Ralph is a former collegiate basketball player and current head coach for the Vanderbilt Commodores women's basketball team. She was previously an assistant coach at UConn from 2008 to 2021. Ralph was proficient in multiple sports,set state high school records in basketball,and earned multiple national player of the year awards in high school and college. She helped win a national championship as a player at the University of Connecticut in 2000 and won numerous individual awards,including the Sports Illustrated for Women Player of the Year and the Honda Sports Award for the best collegiate female athlete in basketball. She suffered five ACL injuries in her career,two of which led to sitting out the 1997–98 season. Ralph was drafted by the WNBA Utah Starzz,but recurring knee problems prevented her from embarking on a professional career. Ralph started her coaching career as an assistant coach at the University of Pittsburgh in 2003.
Ralph Kennedy may refer to:
Katrina Frye Shealy is an American politician,and a member of the South Carolina State Senate. She is a Republican but was elected as a petition candidate from District 23 in Lexington County. At the time of her election in 2012,she was the only woman in the South Carolina Senate and in May of 2023,was one of six women serving in the South Carolina State Senate.. She was defeated in a runoff in 2024.
Ralph Anthony Dungan was an American diplomat and ambassador from the United States to Chile from December 10,1964,to August 2,1967. He was liaison between the Kennedy Administration and the Catholic Church.
Carlisle Kennedy is an American politician,and a member-elect of the South Carolina State Senate. He defeated incumbent Senator Katrina Shealy in a runoff in 2024.
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- ↑ "Ralph Shealy Kennedy Jr". Project Vote Smart. Retrieved April 25, 2015.
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