Wednesday, April 11, 2007
Jimmy Lee Smith, a lifelong criminal whose role in the kidnapping and killing in 1963 of a police officer inspired Joseph Wambaugh’s true-life crime novel “The Onion Field,” died Friday April 6,2007 in jail. He was 76. Smith died at the Pitchess Detention Center in Castaic, north of Los Angeles,... Sign in to see full entry.
Calvin Lockhart
Calvin Lockhart, an actor who won acclaim for his roles as underworld figures in 1970s blaxploitation films, died on Thursday March 29,2007. He was 72.The cause was complications of a stroke, his wife, Jennifer Miles-Lockhart, said. Born the youngest of eight children in 1934 in the Bahamas,... Sign in to see full entry.