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NBC
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The National Broadcasting Company is an American commercial broadcast television network that is the flagship property of NBCUniversal, a subsidiary of Comcast. The network is part of the Big Three television networks, founded in 1926 by the Radio Corporation of America, NBC is the oldest major broadcast network in the United States. Following the acquisition by GE, Bob Wright served as executive officer of NBC, remaining in that position until his retirement in 2007. In 2003, French media company Vivendi merged its entertainment assets with GE, Comcast purchased a controlling interest in the company in 2011, and acquired General Electrics remaining stake in 2013. Following the Comcast merger, Zucker left NBC Universal and was replaced as CEO by Comcast executive Steve Burke, during a period of early broadcast business consolidation, radio manufacturer Radio Corporation of America acquired New York City radio station WEAF from American Telephone & Telegraph. Westinghouse, a shareholder in RCA, had an outlet in Newark, New Jersey pioneer station WJZ. This station was transferred from Westinghouse to RCA in 1923, WEAF acted as a laboratory for AT&Ts manufacturing and supply outlet Western Electric, whose products included transmitters and antennas. The Bell System, AT&Ts telephone utility, was developing technologies to transmit voice- and music-grade audio over short and long distances, the 1922 creation of WEAF offered a research-and-development center for those activities. WEAF maintained a schedule of radio programs, including some of the first commercially sponsored programs. In an early example of chain or networking broadcasting, the station linked with Outlet Company-owned WJAR in Providence, Rhode Island, AT&T refused outside companies access to its high-quality phone lines. The early effort fared poorly, since the telegraph lines were susceptible to atmospheric. In 1925, AT&T decided that WEAF and its network were incompatible with the companys primary goal of providing a telephone service. AT&T offered to sell the station to RCA in a deal that included the right to lease AT&Ts phone lines for network transmission, the divisions ownership was split among RCA, its founding corporate parent General Electric and Westinghouse. NBC officially started broadcasting on November 15,1926, WEAF and WJZ, the flagships of the two earlier networks, were operated side-by-side for about a year as part of the new NBC. On April 5,1927, NBC expanded to the West Coast with the launch of the NBC Orange Network and this was followed by the debut of the NBC Gold Network, also known as the Pacific Gold Network, on October 18,1931. The Orange Network carried Red Network programming, and the Gold Network carried programming from the Blue Network, initially, the Orange Network recreated Eastern Red Network programming for West Coast stations at KPO in San Francisco. The Orange Network name was removed from use in 1936, at the same time, the Gold Network became part of the Blue Network. In the 1930s, NBC also developed a network for shortwave radio stations, in 1927, NBC moved its operations to 711 Fifth Avenue in Manhattan, occupying the upper floors of a building designed by architect Floyd Brown
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Forensic science
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Forensic scientists collect, preserve, and analyze scientific evidence during the course of an investigation. In addition to their role, forensic scientists testify as expert witnesses in both criminal and civil cases and can work for either the prosecution or the defense. While any field could technically be forensic, certain sections have developed over time to encompass the majority of forensically related cases, the word forensic comes from the Latin term forensis, meaning of or before the forum. The history of the term originates from Roman times, during which a charge meant presenting the case before a group of public individuals in the forum. Both the person accused of the crime and the accuser would give speeches based on their sides of the story, the case would be decided in favor of the individual with the best argument and delivery. This origin is the source of the two usages of the word forensic – as a form of legal evidence and as a category of public presentation. In modern use, the term forensics in the place of science can be considered correct. However, the term is now so closely associated with the field that many dictionaries include the meaning that equates the word forensics with forensic science. The ancient world lacked standardized forensic practices, which aided criminals in escaping punishment, Criminal investigations and trials heavily relied on forced confessions and witness testimony. However, ancient sources do contain several accounts of techniques that foreshadow concepts in science that were developed centuries later. The first written account of using medicine and entomology to solve criminal cases is attributed to the book of Xi Yuan Lu, written in China by Song Ci in 1248, during the Song Dynasty. In one of the accounts, the case of a person murdered with a sickle was solved by an investigator who instructed everyone to bring his sickle to one location, flies, attracted by the smell of blood, eventually gathered on a single sickle. In light of this, the murderer confessed, methods from around the world involved saliva and examination of the mouth and tongue to determine innocence or guilt, as a precursor to the Polygraph test. In ancient India, some suspects were made to fill their mouths with dried rice, similarly, in Ancient China, those accused of a crime would have rice powder placed in their mouths. In ancient middle-eastern cultures, the accused were made to lick hot metal rods briefly, in 16th-century Europe, medical practitioners in army and university settings began to gather information on the cause and manner of death. Ambroise Paré, a French army surgeon, systematically studied the effects of violent death on internal organs, two Italian surgeons, Fortunato Fidelis and Paolo Zacchia, laid the foundation of modern pathology by studying changes that occurred in the structure of the body as the result of disease. In the late 18th century, writings on these began to appear. Two examples of English forensic science in individual legal proceedings demonstrate the use of logic
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Massachusetts
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It is bordered by the Atlantic Ocean to the east, the states of Connecticut and Rhode Island to the south, New Hampshire and Vermont to the north, and New York to the west. The state is named for the Massachusett tribe, which inhabited the area. The capital of Massachusetts and the most populous city in New England is Boston, over 80% of Massachusetts population lives in the Greater Boston metropolitan area, a region influential upon American history, academia, and industry. Originally dependent on agriculture, fishing and trade, Massachusetts was transformed into a manufacturing center during the Industrial Revolution, during the 20th century, Massachusetts economy shifted from manufacturing to services. Modern Massachusetts is a leader in biotechnology, engineering, higher education, finance. Plymouth was the site of the first colony in New England, founded in 1620 by the Pilgrims, in 1692, the town of Salem and surrounding areas experienced one of Americas most infamous cases of mass hysteria, the Salem witch trials. In 1777, General Henry Knox founded the Springfield Armory, which during the Industrial Revolution catalyzed numerous important technological advances, in 1786, Shays Rebellion, a populist revolt led by disaffected American Revolutionary War veterans, influenced the United States Constitutional Convention. In the 18th century, the Protestant First Great Awakening, which swept the Atlantic World, in the late 18th century, Boston became known as the Cradle of Liberty for the agitation there that led to the American Revolution. The entire Commonwealth of Massachusetts has played a commercial and cultural role in the history of the United States. Before the American Civil War, Massachusetts was a center for the abolitionist, temperance, in the late 19th century, the sports of basketball and volleyball were invented in the western Massachusetts cities of Springfield and Holyoke, respectively. Many prominent American political dynasties have hailed from the state, including the Adams, both Harvard University and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, also in Cambridge, have been ranked among the most highly regarded academic institutions in the world. Massachusetts public school students place among the top nations in the world in academic performance, the official name of the state is the Commonwealth of Massachusetts. While this designation is part of the official name, it has no practical implications. Massachusetts has the position and powers within the United States as other states. Massachusetts was originally inhabited by tribes of the Algonquian language family such as the Wampanoag, Narragansett, Nipmuc, Pocomtuc, Mahican, and Massachusett. While cultivation of crops like squash and corn supplemented their diets, villages consisted of lodges called wigwams as well as longhouses, and tribes were led by male or female elders known as sachems. Between 1617 and 1619, smallpox killed approximately 90% of the Massachusetts Bay Native Americans, the first English settlers in Massachusetts, the Pilgrims, arrived via the Mayflower at Plymouth in 1620, and developed friendly relations with the native Wampanoag people. This was the second successful permanent English colony in the part of North America that later became the United States, the event known as the First Thanksgiving was celebrated by the Pilgrims after their first harvest in the New World which lasted for three days
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Jill Hennessy
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Jillian Noel Jill Hennessy is a Canadian actress and musician. She has also acted in such as RoboCop 3 and Most Wanted, and the independent films Chutney Popcorn and The Acting Class. Hennessy was born in Edmonton, Alberta and her father, John Hennessy, was a meat salesman and sales/marketing executive, a job that required considerable travel and resulted in frequent moves for the family. Her mother, Maxine, a secretary, left the family in 1982, leaving her daughter to be raised by her paternal grandmother, Eleanor, in Kitchener. She has a brother, John Paul J. P. Hennessy, Jr. and an identical twin sister, Jacqueline. Hennessy has Irish, French, Swedish and Italian ancestry on her fathers side and she attended Stanley Park Senior Public School, then graduated from Grand River Collegiate Institute in Kitchener, Ontario and used to busk in the Toronto subway. Hennessy and her sister played twin call girls in 1988s Dead Ringers and she was short listed for the role of Dana Scully on The X-Files according to Gillian Anderson, the actress who eventually got the role. She appeared on Broadway in the musical Buddy – The Buddy Holly Story in 1990, in 1993, she appeared as Dr. Marie Lazarus in RoboCop 3. In 1993, Richard Dick Wolf signed Hennessy as assistant district attorney Claire Kincaid in the NBC crime drama Law & Order. She played the role for three seasons, ultimately leaving the show in 1996, her last installment being one in which Kincaid was killed in a car crash, in 1999, she appeared as Lisa in Chutney Popcorn. In 2000, Hennessy wrote, produced, and jointly directed an independent film mockumentary titled The Acting Class, the film co-starred her identical twin sister Jacqueline, and included cameo appearances from a number of Hennessys former Law & Order co-stars. She also starred in the film Nuremberg, as Elsie Douglas, in 2001, she portrayed Jackie Kennedy in the film Jackie, Ethel, Joan, The Women of Camelot, and, in 2003, made a cameo appearance in the film Abby Singer. From 2001 to 2007, she starred on the TV show Crossing Jordan as title character Jordan Cavanaugh and she also played the wife of Tim Allens character in the 2007 film Wild Hogs. On June 9,2007, she received a star on Canadas Walk of Fame, during sessions in Austin, Texas, Hennessy recorded the album Ghost in My Head, which was released in June 2009. She performed as a guest of the Indigo Girls on a November 2009 show of Mountain Stage and was the focus of a show for later that same month. She performed on the Village Stage of the 2010 edition of Lilith Fair, Hennessy starred in the independent crime thriller, Small Town Murder Songs, in 2010. She also appeared as a veterinarian in the HBO series Luck and her second album, I Do, was released in October 2015. Hennessy is multi-lingual, speaking English, Italian, French, Spanish, Hennessy plays the guitar and sings, and enjoys riding motorcycles with her husband, Paolo Mastropietro, to whom she has been married since 2000
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Lorraine Toussaint
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Lorraine Toussaint is a Trinidadian-American actress and producer. Toussaint began her career in theatre before supporting performances in such as Breaking In, Hudson Hawk. Toussaint later appeared as a regular cast member in the NBC police procedural Crossing Jordan and she co-starred in the ABC fantasy-drama series Forever, and is currently co-starring in the Fox comedy-drama Rosewood. Toussaint received critical acclaim and an Independent Spirit Award nomination for her performance in the 2012 drama film Middle of Nowhere, written and she later played the role of Amelia Boynton Robinson in the 2014 historical drama film Selma, directed by Ava DuVernay. Toussaint was born in Trinidad and Tobago, in an interview she said, I grew up under the British system, which I think is horrific for children -- very, very strict -- a system that did not recognize children as being individuals. You were small animals earning the right to be human, childhood for me then felt extraordinarily powerless, and as an artistic child who learned in alternative ways, it was hell. A good child was a child, and I was a very, very, good child. Her mother was a teacher, and brought Toussaint to live in Brooklyn in the late 1960s, Toussaint graduated from Manhattans High School of Performing Arts in 1978. She then attended the Juilliard Schools drama division as a member of Group 11, where her classmates in 1982 included Megan Gallagher, Penny Johnson Jerald, Jack Kenny, Toussaint graduated from Juilliard with a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree. She then began her career as Shakespearean actress before tackling screen acting in television, Toussaint made her screen debut in 1983. In 1986 she played the role of widow of a man shot, Toussaint has made her film debut in the female lead role opposite Burt Reynolds in the crime comedy Breaking In. The film received reviews from critics, but flopped in box office. In 1991 she appeared opposite Bruce Willis in Hudson Hawk, and she also appeared in films Point of No Return, Mothers Boys, and Black Dog. She starred in show as Rene Jackson, a successful African-American lawyer, the series has received critical acclaim for Toussaints and Potts acting performances and writing, but never had big ratings. In 2001, Toussaint was a contender for a Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Drama Series category. She also was nominated five times for a NAACP Image Award for Outstanding Actress in a Drama Series for her role, Any Day Now ended after four-season and 88 episodes. From 2002 to 2004, Toussaint had regular role of Dr. Elaine Duchamps in the NBC police procedural, in later years she guest-starred on Frasier, Judging Amy, The Closer, CSI, Crime Scene Investigation, ER, and NCIS. She also was regular opposite Holly Hunter in the TNT crime drama Saving Grace as Capt, kate Perry from 2007 to 2010
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Mahershala Ali
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Mahershalalhashbaz Mahershala Ali is an American actor and rapper. Ali began his career as a regular on such as Crossing Jordan. Ali is also known for his roles in the Netflix series House of Cards as Remy Danton and his win at the 89th Academy Awards made him the first Muslim actor to win an Oscar. Ali was born in 1974, in Oakland, California, son of Willicia and he was raised in Cleveland, Ohio and returned to Oakland when he was fourteen. He is named after Maher-shalal-hash-baz, a biblical prophetic-name child, raised Christian by his mother, an ordained minister, he later converted to Islam, changing his surname from Gilmore to Ali, and joined the Ahmadiyya Muslim Community. He attended St. Marys College of California in Moraga, where he graduated in 1996 with a degree in mass communication, though Ali entered SMC with a basketball scholarship, he became disenchanted with the idea of a sports career because of the treatment given to the teams athletes. Ali developed an interest in acting, particularly taking part in a staging of Spunk that later landed him an apprenticeship at the California Shakespeare Theater following graduation. Following a sabbatical year where Ali worked for Gavin Report, he enrolled in New York Universitys graduate acting program, Ali was known professionally as Mahershalalhashbaz Ali until 2010. His win at the 89th Academy Awards made him the first Muslim actor to win an Oscar, Ali was signed to Bay Area recording label Hieroglyphics Imperium during the late 2000s and recorded music as Prince Ali. He released his album, Curb Side Service, in 2007, Ali is a Muslim and a member of the Ahmadiyya Muslim Community. He is married to Amatus-Sami Karim and he named his cat Nas, after the musician. On February 22,2017, he and his wife welcomed their first child, a daughter named Bari Najma
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Kathryn Hahn
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Kathryn Hahn is an American actress and comedian. She began her career on television playing Lily Lebowski in the NBC crime drama series Crossing Jordan, as lead actress, Hahn starred in the 2013 comedy-drama Afternoon Delight directed by Jill Soloway. In 2016, she starred in the comedy film Bad Moms and she also has appeared in a number of dramatic films, including Revolutionary Road, This Is Where I Leave You, Tomorrowland, The Visit, and Captain Fantastic. Hahn was born in Westchester, Illinois, the daughter of Karen and she has German, Irish, and English ancestry. Hahn grew up in Cleveland Heights, Ohio and attended Beaumont School and she attended Northwestern University, where she obtained a bachelors degree in theatre before attending Yale University. While attending Yale School of Drama, Hahn starred as Sally Bowles in Cabaret, hahns first appearance on a show was NBCs Hickory Hideout, a puppet show for children. While attending a theater festival she met an NBC casting director who introduced her to creator/producer Tim Kring, the series aired from 2001 to 2007. Hahn has said of meeting Kring, NBC and Tim Kring took a leap of faith in casting me. To be worked into a show that was in production and on the schedule, is a stroke of luck. On October 21,2008, TV Guide reported that Hahn signed a talent holding deal with Fox, in 2003, Hahn played supporting role opposite Kate Hudson and Matthew McConaughey in the romantic comedy film, How to Lose a Guy in 10 Days. The following year, she appeared in Win a Date with Tad Hamilton, anchorman, The Legend of Ron Burgundy, Around the Bend, and Wake Up, Ron Burgundy, The Lost Movie. On television, Hahn starred alongside Hank Azaria in the short-lived NBC comedy series, Free Agents and she had recurring roles on HBO shows Hung and Girls. From 2012 to 2015, she received praise for her role on the NBC comedy series, Parks and Recreation as Jennifer Barkley. She received a Critics Choice Television Award nomination for Best Guest Performer in a Comedy Series for her performance, in 2013, Hahn played her first leading role, in the comedy-drama film Afternoon Delight written and directed by Jill Soloway. The film premiered at the 2013 Sundance Film Festival, for her role, she was nominated for a Gotham Independent Film Award for Best Breakthrough. Later that year, Hahn appeared opposite Jennifer Aniston in the box-office hit Were the Millers, and co-starred alongside Ben Stiller and Kristen Wiig in The Secret Life of Walter Mitty. In 2014, she starred in the comedy film Bad Words opposite Jason Bateman, the ensemble comedy-drama This Is Where I Leave You, in 2014, Hahn was cast as Rabbi Raquel Fein in the Amazon Studios critically acclaimed dark comedy-drama, Transparent created by Jill Soloway. She received a Screen Actors Guild Award nomination along with the cast, in 2015, she starred alongside Steve Coogan in the Showtime comedy-drama, Happyish
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Leslie Bibb
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Leslie Louise Bibb is an American actress and model. Bibb transitioned into film and television during the late 1990s and she played minor roles in a few television series before making her film debut in the Howard Stern biopic Private Parts. She scored her first recurring role in the TV show The Big Easy, Bibbs role as Brooke McQueen on the WB Network dramedy series Popular brought her to the attention of a wider audience, she received a Teen Choice Award for Television Choice Actress for the role. During breaks in filming the series, she also played roles in the films The Skulls. She had a role in ER, Line of Fire, Crossing Jordan. Bibb appeared as Carley Bobby in the Will Ferrell comedy film Talladega Nights, The Ballad of Ricky Bobby, followed by supporting roles in the films Iron Man, Law Abiding Citizen, Bibb was born in Bismarck, North Dakota, and raised in Nelson County, Virginia. Her father died three years after she was born, Bibb subsequently moved to Richmond, Virginia, with her widowed mother and three older sisters, where she attended the all-girl Saint Gertrude High School. In 1990, The Oprah Winfrey Show and the Elite Agency held a nationwide modeling search, the celebrity judges, John Casablancas, Naomi Campbell, Linda Evangelista, and Iman chose Bibb as the winner. After finishing her year, Bibb flew to New York City to sign a contract with Elite Agency and modeled over that summer. Bibb returned to America for her year and graduated in 1991. Bibb later decided to attend the University of Virginia, after a single semester, however, Bibb abandoned her studies and moved to New York City to pursue her full-time modeling career. Bibbs modeling photographs have appeared in the magazines Maxim and FHM and she also attended the William Esper acting studio for three years. After one episode roles on the television series Pacific Blue and Home Improvement and this was followed by her first television series, where she replaced the departed Susan Walters as the female lead in the second season of The Big Easy. Most critics panned the show, and it was canceled months later after low ratings and she appeared in the romantic drama Touch Me, co-starring Amanda Peet, Michael Vartan and Peter Facinelli. Later she portrayed a role, Summer, in the film This Space Between Us. In 1999, Bibb had her big break appearing as a character on the WB Network television series Popular. Her role was Brooke McQueen, the most popular girl at Kennedy High School who is beautiful, a student. The show was a success among teenagers and led Bibb to more recognizable film roles
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Forensic entomology
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It is the application and study of insect and other arthropod biology to criminal matters. It also involves the application of the study of arthropods, including insects, arachnids, centipedes, millipedes, Forensic entomology can be divided into three subfields, urban, stored-product and medico-legal/medico-criminal entomology. Historically, there have been accounts of applications for, and experimentation with. The concept of forensic entomology dates back to at least the 13th century, however, only in the last 30 years has forensic entomology been systematically explored as a feasible source for evidence in criminal investigations. Sung Tzu was a Judicial Intendant who lived in China 1188-1251 AD, in 1247 AD Sung Tzu wrote a book entitled Washing Away of Wrongs as a handbook for coroners. In this book Sung Tzu depicts several cases in which he notes on how a person died. He explains in detail on how to examine a corpse both before and after burial and he also explains the process of how to determine a probable cause of death. The main purpose of book was to be used as a guide for other investigators so they could assess the scene of the crime effectively. In 1668, Italian physician Francesco Redi disproved the theory of spontaneous generation, the accepted theory of Redis day claimed that maggots developed spontaneously from rotting meat. In an experiment, he used samples of rotting meat that were fully exposed to the air, partially exposed to the air. Redi showed that both fully and partially exposed rotting meat developed fly maggots, whereas rotting meat that was not exposed to air did not develop maggots. This discovery completely changed the way people viewed the decomposition of organisms and prompted further investigations into insect life cycles, Dr. Louis François Etienne Bergeret was a French hospital physician, and was the first to apply forensic entomology to a case. In a case report published in 1855 he stated a general life cycle for insects, nevertheless, these assumptions led him to the first application of forensic entomology in an estimation of post-mortem interval. His report used forensic entomology as tool to prove his hypothesis on how, the first systematic study in forensic entomology was conducted in 1881 by Hermann Reinhard, a German medical doctor who played a vital role in the history of forensic entomology. He exhumed many bodies and demonstrated that the development of different types of insect species could be tied to buried bodies. Reinhard conducted his first study in east Germany, and collected many Phorid flies from this initial study, reinhards works and studies were used extensively in further forensic entomology studies. In his second book he did work on the theory of predictable waves. By counting numbers of live and dead mites that developed every 15 days and comparing this with his initial count on the infant, in this book he asserted that exposed corpses were subject to eight successional waves, whereas buried corpses were only subject to two waves
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Tim Kring
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Richard Timothy Tim Kring is an American screenwriter and television producer, best known for his creation of the drama series Strange World, Crossing Jordan, Heroes, and Touch. Kring was born in El Dorado County, California and he has two brothers and a sister. He graduated from the University of Southern California School of Cinematic Arts in 1983, discussing his beginnings, Kring said, Krings first job as a screenwriter was for the television show Knight Rider. Other early projects included co-writing an episode of Misfits of Science, Kring and Loeb would collaborate again when producing Heroes. Kring also co-wrote the 2010 book Shift, A Novel with Dale Peck, after the cancellation of Heroes in 2010 Kring created the TV series Touch, a drama focusing on a father who discovers that his mute son can predict future events. The series premiered on January 25,2012 on Fox and was cancelled after two seasons on May 9,2013, on February 22,2014, during its Olympics coverage, NBC announced Heroes is coming back as a 13-episode event miniseries titled Heroes Reborn. It premiered in 2015 with creator Tim Kring as the executive producer, Kring won an Emmy Award nomination in 2007 for Outstanding Drama Series as the producer for Heroes. He was also named one of the Masters of Sci Fi TV for his work on the series, Tim Kring at the Internet Movie Database Interview, Tim Kring, Heroes creator, The TV Addict, 2006-10-12 NBCs Super Heroes, Burning Questions Answered
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Ken Howard
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Howard was elected president of the actors union, Screen Actors Guild, in September 2009 and reelected to a second term, in September 2011. Howard was born in El Centro, California, the son of Martha Carey and Kenneth Joseph Howard, Sr. a stockbroker, being the elder of their two sons. His younger brother, the late Don Howard, was also an actor, famous for directing Deathtrap, in 1980, starring William Shatner and his approximately 6-foot 6-inch stature earned him the nickname Stork as a high school student. He grew up in Manhasset, New York, Howard had basketball in his blood well before The White Shadow debuted. The nickname The White Shadow was given to him by the Long Island press in 1961, a member of the National Honor Society in high school, Howard turned down several offers of basketball scholarships in favor of a more focused academic education. He was a graduate of Amherst College, where he served as captain of the basketball team and he was also a member of the a cappella singing group, The Zumbyes. He attended Yale School of Drama but left to make his Broadway debut before completing his masters degree, Howard began his career on Broadway in Promises, Promises with Jerry Orbach. In 1970, he won a Tony Award as Best Supporting or Featured Actor for Childs Play, Howard later starred on Broadway as Thomas Jefferson in 1776 and reprised the role in the 1972 film. His other Broadway appearances included Seesaw in 1973 and The Norman Conquests, Howard portrayed several U. S. presidents in the 1975 Broadway musical 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue and appeared as Warren G. Harding in Camping with Henry and Tom in 1995. He appeared in theater in many cities, most recently as Tip ONeill in a one-man show According to Tip, at the New Repertory Theatre in Watertown. On television, Howard appeared as Ken Reeves, a Los Angeles high school coach, in The White Shadow. Howard had the role in the 1973 TV series Adams Rib opposite his good friend. He starred in The Manhunter, a drama that was part of CBSs lineup for the 1974–75 television season. Howard starred in the TV movie Father Damien in 1980 and won a Daytime Emmy Award in 1981 for his performance as the father in the CBS afternoon special The Body Human. He played the character in the 1984 American Playhouse production of Mark Twains Puddnhead Wilson. Later, he appeared as Garrett Boydston in Dynasty and its spin-off The Colbys, in the early 1990s, he appeared on Murder, She Wrote and, from 2001-04, in Crossing Jordan as the title characters father. In 2007, he appeared in the acclaimed series Cane. Howard guest-starred on numerous television dramas and he was guest villain in Hart to Hart Returns, a 1993 made-for-TV movie
