Ernest Medina, key figure in My Lai massacre, dies at 81

Captain Ernest Medina, key figure in My Lai massacre, dies at 81

One of the Most Criminal Butcher of Vietnam Era killing more than 580 Vietnam's civilians of an entire village including children, babies, women and elderly in four hours.

http://www.historynet.com/something-dark-and-bloody-what-happened-at-my-lai.htm

What they really saw him on, back in September 1971, was the evening news. Medina, then a U.S. Army captain, was tried and found not guilty of murder, manslaughter and assault charges stemming from the 1968 massacre of 175 Vietnamese at Mylai. Lt. William Calley, Medina’s subordinate, who was found guilty, testified that he had acted under his commander’s orders, a charge that Medina denied.

Their commander, Captain Ernest Medina, a 30-year-old Mexican American, had grown up in poverty before joining the service and working his way up the ranks. Nicknamed “Mad Dog,” Medina commanded the respect of his men as a tough but fair leader. He wanted his unit to be the best, and called his troops “the Death Dealers.”

http://www.historynet.com/something-dark-and-bloody-what-happened-at-my-lai.htm

Famous and Notabl People who Died at age of 89-Years

George Deukmejian, governor California dies at 89

That big,

The son of Armenian immigrants, Deukmejian served 16 years in the state Legislature and spent one term as state attorney general before narrowly defeating the Democratic mayor of Los Angeles, Tom Bradley, for governor in 1982.

Deukmejian is survived by his wife of 61 years, Gloria; his children, Leslie, Andrea and George; and six grandchildren.

• Bergman, Ingmar (at 89 years 16 days on July 30, 2007)

• Landau, Martin (at 89 years 25 days on July 15, 2017)

• Keane, Bil (died of heart failure at 89 years 34 days on November 8, 2011)

• Stewart, Jimmy (at 89 years 43 days on July 2, 1997)

• Kerensky, Alexander (at 89 years 50 days on June 11, 1970)

• Fleischer, Max (at 89 years 54 days on September 11, 1972)

• Acuff, Roy (at 89 years 69 days on November 23, 1992)

• Wilson, Edith Bolling Galt (at 89 years 74 days on December 28, 1961)

• Watson, Doc (at 89 years 88 days on May 29, 2012)

• Fleischer (at 89 years 107 days on March 25, 2006)

• Miller, Arthur (at 89 years 116 days on February 10, 2005)

• Blackwell, Elizabeth (at 89 years 117 days on May 31, 1910)

• Eddy, Mary Baker (at 89 years 140 days on December 3, 1910)

• Goldwater, Barry (at 89 years 148 days on May 29, 1998)

• Jones, Chuck (died of heart failure at 89 years 154 days on February 22, 2002)

• Planck, Max (at 89 years 164 days on October 4, 1947)

• Newman, John Henry (died of pneumonia at 89 years 171 days on August 11, 1890)

• Sandburg, Carl (died of heart failure at 89 years 197 days on July 22, 1967)

• Lehman, Ernest (at 89 years 206 days on July 2, 2005)

• Moore, Roger (died of cancer at 89 years 221 days on May 23, 2017)

• King, B.B. (at 89 years 240 days on May 14, 2015)

• Bishop, Joey (at 89 years 256 days on October 17, 2007)

• Freleng, Friz (at 89 years 278 days on May 26, 1995)

• Lee, Harper (at 89 years 297 days on February 19, 2016)

• Bellow, Saul (at 89 years 299 days on April 5, 2005)

• Williams, Esther (at 89 years 302 days on June 6, 2013)

• Simpson, Wallis (at 89 years 309 days on April 24, 1986)

• Bacall, Lauren (at 89 years 330 days on August 12, 2014)

• Sheldon, Sidney (at 89 years 353 days on January 30, 2007)

http://www.who2.com/famous-people-died-at-age-89-years-old/

Art Paul, designer of Playboy’s bunny logo, dies at 93

Art Paul, the founding art director of Playboy magazine who created the familiar bunny logo that became the symbol of Hugh Hefner’s publishing and entertainment empire and who exerted a lasting influence on magazine design, died Saturday at a hospital in Chicago. He was 93.

The cause was pneumonia, said his wife, Suzanne Seed.

Hefner was developing his idea for a new men’s magazine in 1953 when he approached Mr. Paul, then working as a freelance illustrator and designer in Chicago. Hefner sought a clean, modern design for the magazine that he wanted to call Stag Party.

Australian Elderly 100-Years Old Wishing to Die

http://www.bbc.com/arabic/world-43990798