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Lynn Samuels

admin — Mon, 26 Dec 2011 14:13:41 +0000

Lynn Samuels was a political radio host. She hosted a show on SiriusXM, also made available in podcast form. From Queens, New York, she worked in radio since 1979.

From 2003 to 2011, she hosted The Lynn Samuels Show from 1:00 PM to 3:00 PM ET on the Sirius Satellite Radio channel SIRIUS Left. This became Sirius XM Left, and she also started a show on Sirius XM Stars.

Stan Case

admin — Mon, 28 Nov 2011 14:35:26 +0000

Case was a lawyer and broadcast journalist who was probably best known as the news anchor of CNN Radio from 1985 – 2011.

Andy Rooney

admin — Sat, 05 Nov 2011 17:26:07 +0000

Andy Rooney was a radio and television personality known mainly for his segments at the end of 60 Minutes from CBS News. His commentary on the things he didn’t like became a staple of Sunday night television for many people. He appeared on the program from 1978 until 2011, when he had to step away because of the health problems he experienced.

Robert Pierpoint

admin — Tue, 25 Oct 2011 18:08:24 +0000

Pierpoint was a broadcast journalist who worked for CBS. He began his career covering the Korean War, before becoming one of CBS’ White House correspondents. Pierpoint was also tasked with also covering the State Department for CBS.

Jack Kevorkian

admin — Fri, 03 Jun 2011 14:15:20 +0000

Kevorkian was a pathologist, right-to-die activist, and convicted murderer. He is best known for championing a terminal patients right to die by doctor-assisted suicide. He claimed to have assisted in at least 130 terminal ill patients commit suicide.

Mark Haines

admin — Wed, 25 May 2011 17:35:51 +0000

Haines was a former host of several shows: How to Succeed in Business, Squawk Box, Morning Call, and Squawk on the Street. His co-host on Squawk on the Street, Erin Burnett, moved on to CNN with her last show being May 6th 2011. With the death of Haines, it’s unclear if the show will go on.

Haines attended Denison University and the University of Pennsylvania Law School and was a member of the New Jersey bar association. He got his start in broadcasting with KYW-TV in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. It has been rumored that Cary Grant considered Haines his favorite television reporter.

Bob Guccione

admin — Thu, 21 Oct 2010 14:13:53 +0000

If one word could describe Bob Guccione, it’s contradiction. Early in life he had tried joining a seminary, and then tried to make it as an artist. Before finally finding success as the founder and publisher of Penthouse Magazine. To those who knew him, Guccione was a polarizing personality. He was loyal and kind one moment, and then cold or distant the next.

Casey Johnson

admin — Tue, 05 Jan 2010 21:01:25 +0000

Casey Johnson was a great-great-granddaughter of Robert Wood Johnson I, co-founder of Johnson & Johnson which makes her an heiress to the Johnson & Johnson fortune.

Johnson is known for being a Hollywood socialite, some of her friends are Paris & Nicky Hilton, Nicole Richie, and several others.

On December 9, 2009 Johnson announced that she was engaged to reality TV show star Tila Tequila. Her fiance tweeted out the following message to her followers…

Johnson was a semi-popular Twitter user, her last Tweet was sent on December 29th.

Brittany Murphy

admin — Mon, 21 Dec 2009 13:40:59 +0000

Murphy was a famous actress who had starred in such movies as Clueless, 8 Mile, Sin City and Riding in Cars with Boys.

Oral Roberts

admin — Tue, 15 Dec 2009 22:23:30 +0000

Oral Roberts was a renowned televangelist and claimed Jesus had appeared to him numerous times asking him to undertake various tasks. Under the order of Jesus, Roberts opened his own university in 1963.