The Tragic Death Of Jayne Mansfield Icon And Image/Getty Images
By Samantha Sanders/Dec. 24, 2020 4:11 pm EDT
On a clear June night in 1967, after the last of her two performances at a supper club in Biloxi, Mississippi, actress, pinup, and Hollywood bombshell Jayne Mansfield decided to travel on to New Orleans, where she was scheduled to make a TV appearance the following day. Along for the ride were her boyfriend (and divorce attorney) Samuel Brody, and three of her children (including then three-year-old Mariska Hargitay, star of
Law & Order: Special Victims Unit, along with two of her older brothers).
According to NOLA.com, the group set off in a 1966 Buick Electra convertible with 19-year-old driver Ronald Harrison behind the wheel. The plan was to arrive at their destination, the Roosevelt Hotel, later that morning. They never made it.
The President Of Liberia Who Was Indicted For Crimes Against Humanity Chris Hondros/Getty Images
By Samantha Sanders/Dec. 23, 2020 4:19 pm EDT
Since 2013, Charles Taylor, former president of Liberia and, as CNN reports, the first former head of state since WWII to be convicted of war crimes, has been imprisoned in the UK, serving a 50-year sentence. It s an ignoble end to a political career that had begun more than 30 years prior and would change the course of African history in countless ways. Despite Taylor s assertion at his sentencing that he was no threat to society, the tens of thousands of lives lost or destroyed by his actions reflect a very different reality.