Mural Honors Grand Prairie Couple Who Died From COVID Holding Hands
February 23, 2021
Courtesy photo from Juan Velazquez
Fort Worth artist Juan Velazquez has honored the late husband and wife Paul and Rose Mary Blackwell with a mural in Grand Prairie. The duo taught for years in the Grand Prairie School District and died minutes apart from COVID-19.
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One of the more memorable moments from the COVID-19 pandemic was the passing of Grand Prairie teachers and husband/wife Paul and Rose Mary Blackwell in December from the deadly virus.
The couple, who had been married, made national news as they died just minutes apart, holding each other’s hands and the hands of their children.
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Christiane Amanpour’s broadcast of Jan. 22, 2021 featured an unbalanced panel discussion about the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. The discussion was based on the documentary film “The Human Factor” by Israeli filmmaker Dror Moreh. The film purports to cover the “thirty-year effort to secure peace in the Middle East.”
In addition to Moreh, the panel consisted of Gamal Helal, an Arabic translator for several U.S. presidents and Aaron David Miller, a former U.S. negotiator for Arab-Israeli peace negotiations.
Note: This CAMERA report deals only with the discussion based on the film not the film itself that’s for another day.
whitewashed Yasser Arafatâs failure at Camp David, has been fulsomely praised by foreign policy professionals like Aaron David Miller.
Malleyâs consistent support for Iran and criticism of both US and Israeli policy, as well as embrace by the Iranian regime, is the clearest signal yet that the Biden administration is anxious to reenter the JCPOA deal.
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