Murders Caused By Television Shows: # 3 Scott Amedure And The Jenny Jones Show.

Scott Bernard Amedure

He was generous to a fault, he took in several homosexual friends with AIDS, caring for them when others had shunned them.

Scott was born on January 26th, 1963 in Pittsburgh, Allegheny County, Pennsylvania to a local tractor-trailer driver named Frank and a housewife named Patricia Graves Amedure. In 1970, his parents divorced and Scott lived principally with his father, as did his three brothers and one sister. When he was 17, he quit high school to join the Army, where he finished his GED and was trained in satellite communications. While assigned to Germany, he learned to ski, and broke his leg while skiing in Switzerland. After three years, he received an Honorable Discharge, with the rank of Specialist. After working several years in technical communications and telephone type jobs, he became a bartender, because he enjoyed working at night. 

On March 6, 1995 and Scott came in to tape an episode of the Jenny Jones Show entitled "Same Sex Secret Crushes." None of the guests were told the title of the show or what it was about until they were on stage. Scott was encouraged to share his sexual fantasies to the host and audience about his crush named Johnathan Schmitz. Scott left the stage, so they could surprise Johnathan. Only knowing that someone had a secret crush on him and with the producer of the show hinting around it was a woman, Johnathan walked onto the stage. When Scott came out, the two friends shared a quick hug, before the host, Jenny Jones, shared the fact that Scott was Johnathan's admirer. Scott then laughed nervously as said that he was completely heterosexual. 

After the taping the two went out drinking together and an alleged sexual encounter occurred.

Three days after the taping of the show, Johnathan found a sexually suggestive note from Scott at his house. After finding the note, he withdrew money from the bank, purchased a shotgun, and then went to Scott's mobile home. He had a conversation with Scott about the note which lead to an argument. Johnathan then returned to his car, took his gun, and returned to Scott's trailer. He then shot Scott twice in the chest, killing him. Johnathan left, called 9-1-1 and confessed to killing Scott.

Johnathan was arrested and found guilty of second degree murder. He was sentenced to 20-25 years in prison. He appealed and his sentenced was overturned. He then had a retrial and was found guilty a second time. Johnathan was released from prison on August 22, 2017.

Aaliyah Was Killed By Her Pilot.

🎶Aaliyah Dana Haughton🎶

"I want people to remember me as a full on entertainer and a good person."

She was a recording artist, actress and model who was ahead of her time. Aaliyah's nicknames were Li-Li and Baby Girl. She was playful, compassionate and caring. She was a prankster. Aaliyah loved to sleep, play word games, shop at Fred Segal in Los Angeles, and eat breakfast food, even late in the afternoon. She also loved reading Harry Potter books.

Aaliyah was born in Brooklyn on January 16th, 1979 to Diane and Michael "Miguel" Haughton. She was raised in Detroit. Aaliyah was destined for stardom. She started voice lessons shortly after she learned to talk. At age 11, Aaliyah opened for her aunt, Gladys Knight in Las Vegas. She signed a contract with Jive Records at the age of 12. She studied dance at the Detroit High School for the Fine and Performing Arts and earned a 4.0 GPA. At fourteen, Aaliyah released an album produced by R. Kelly, called, "Age Ain’t Nothing but a Number", which sold more than 1 million copies. 

Rumors swirled that she had married Kelly when she was only fifteen and he was twenty-seven. Aaliyah denied it, even though a marriage certificate was found in a Chicago county clerk’s office. 

Aaliyah's second album, "One in a Million", dropped in 1996, and sold 2 million copies. It also launched its producer-songwriter team, Timbaland and Missy Elliott, to stardom. 

By the time Aaliyah was 18, she was on top of the world with a successful string of critically acclaimed, best-selling albums and singles. 

Aaliyah began modeling for Tommy Hilfiger and taking acting lessons, which led to a starring role in the 2000 film, "Romeo Must Die", as well as the role of Akasha in Queen of the Damned, which was released after her death. She had also been cast in both of the sequels to The Matrix, which she had started shooting in L.A. before her death.

Her third record, Aaliyah, released in July 2001, was already gold when she flew to Abaco Island in the Bahamas to finish the video for the album’s third single, “Rock the Boat,”.

The self-proclaimed "street but sweet" Aaliyah was poised to become a global icon. Her life was tragically cut short, when she died in a plane crash on August 25, 2001, on her way back to Florida. 

On board the ten-seat twin-engine Cessna 402B with Aaliyah was the pilot, Luis Morales III, and seven members of her crew: video-production director Douglas Kratz, bodyguard Scott Gallin, hairstylists Anthony Dodd, and Eric Forman, Blackground Records executive Gina Smith, makeup artist Christopher Maldonado, and friend Keeth Wallace. Less than a minute after it took off, the plane crashed just a few hundred feet from the runway. Aaliyah was among six passengers dead at the scene with three others passing away hours later.

The cause of the crash was due to the aircraft being over it's maximum weight by 700 pounds during take off. Also there was one more passenger than it was certified to carry. The pilot was to blame was well. He had falsified the number of flight hours he had in order to get his license. He also lied about how much time he had flown from his last employer. When they did his toxicology report, traces of cocaine and alcohol in his system.

Aaliyah was laid to rest on August 31st, 2001. Her funeral was closed to the public, but hundreds of her fans lined Park Avenue on Manhattan’s Upper East Side as the singer’s casket was carried to St. Ignatius Loyola Roman Catholic Church. At her funeral 22 white doves were released to symbolize each year of her life.

Later, a public memorial at Cipriani 42nd Street was attended by more than 3,000 mourners. 

Famous People That We've Lost So Far This Year: Dick Miller

Dick Miller

Dick Miller appeared in over 180 films. You might remember him from the 1980's movie Gremlins. He played the inebriated Murray Futterman who was yelling about foreigners putting Gremlins in everything including watches. Dick Miller wasn't always an actor.

This Bronx born actor was the son of the son of Russian Jewish immigrants. His mother was an opera singer and his father a printer. Dick made a name for himself in the boxing ring while serving a tour of duty in the United States Navy.  After he finished his tour in the Navy, Dick attended the City College of New York, Columbia University, and New York University, eventually attaining a PhD in psychology. Dick was a writer before turning to acting.

Miller performed on Broadway and also worked at the Bellevue Hospital Mental Hygiene Clinic and the psychiatric department of Queens General Hospital.

In the 1950's, Dick met legendary B-movie producer Roger Corman. He went to star in many of Corman's movies. Dick's biggest role was in 1959, when he starred as a murderous busboy in Walter Paisley's film, A Bucket Of Blood. Dick is also fondly remembered for his supporting role as the flower-eating Burson Fouch in Corman's legendary 1969's film, The Little Shop of Horrors.

Some of Dick’s other films include “The Terminator,” “All The Right Moves,” “Night of the Creeps,” “Tales from the Crypt: Demon Knight,” “Amazon Women on the Moon,” and “The Howling.” He also appeared in the music video for Rod Stewart’s song “Infatuation” in 1984. He was also the subject of a documentary, “That Guy Dick Miller” directed by Elijah Drenner, which looked at his long career.

Dick died of natural causes at age 90 on January 30, 2019, in Toluca Lake, Los Angeles. His wife, Lainie Miller, said he died after a heart attack and had congestive heart failure and pneumonia.

America's Oldest Teenager: Dick Clark

Dick Clark

Richard Wagstaff Clark was a TV personality known for the shows American Bandstand, $25,000 Pyramid and TV's Bloopers and Practical Jokes, Dick Clark's New Year's Rockin' Eve among others. Sometimes known as "America's oldest teenager," Dick  was one of the most influential figures in popular music. With his show American Bandstand, he helped advance the careers of countless artists, including Paul Anka, Barry Manilow and Madonna.

He was born on November 30th, 1929 in Mount Vernon, New York to Julia and Richard Clark. His only sibling, older brother Bradley, was killed in World War II during the Battle of the Bulge. 

In school, Dick was an average student. When he was 10 years old, he decided to pursue a career in radio.

In 1945, Dick was only 16 years old when began working in the mail room at WRUN, a radio station in New York, that was owned by his uncle and managed by his father. Dick was asked to fill in for the vacationing weatherman, and within a few months he was announcing station breaks.

Dick graduated from Syracuse University in 1951 with a degree in advertising and a minor in radio. While attending Syracuse University Dick worked at WOLF-AM.. After graduation, he returned to WRUN for a short time where he went by the name Dick Clay. After that, Dick got a job at the television station WKTV in New York. His first television-hosting job was on Cactus Dick and the Santa Fe Riders, a country-music program. He later replaced Robert Earle as a newscaster.

Dick owned several radio stations. From 1964 to 1978, he owned KPRO in Riverside, California under the name Progress Broadcasting. In 1967, he purchased KGUD-AM-FM in Santa Barbara, California.

In 1952, Dick moved to Pennsylvania, where he took a job as a disc jockey at radio station WFIL, adopting the Dick Clark handle. WFIL had an affiliated television station which began broadcasting a show called Bob Horn's Bandstand in 1952. Dick served as a regular substitute host when Horn went on vacation. In 1956, Horn was arrested for drunk driving and was fired. On July 9, 1956, Dick took his place. 

Bandstand was picked up by the ABC television network, renamed American Bandstand, and debuted nationally on August 5, 1957. Due to Dick's natural rapport with the live teenage audience and dancing participants as well as the non-threatening image he projected to television audiences, the show was a hit. Many parents were introduced to rock and roll music thanks to Dick. He helped to integrate the dance floors of a "Black and White" America by inviting black dancers to his show in 1958 just one year after American Bandstand started. Under Clark's influence, American Bandstand became one of the most successful and longest-running musical programs of all time.

In 1958, The Dick Clark Show was added to ABC's Saturday night lineup. Viewership exceeded 20 million, and featured artists were "virtually guaranteed" large sales boosts after appearing. 

In 1959, a television tribute to Dick had an estimated viewership of  50 million people.

Clark became more invested in the music publishing and recording businesses, and began managing artists, hosting live sock hops, and arranging concert tours. 

Dick Clark was inducted in the Hollywood Walk of Fame on February 8th, 1960. 

Also in 1960, when the United States Senate began investigating  the practice in which music producing companies paid broadcasting companies to favor their products, Dick became caught up in the scandal. The investigation found he had partial copyrights to over 150 songs, many of which were featured on his show. He denied he was involved in any way, but admitted to accepting a fur and jewelry from a record company president.The Senate could not find any illegal actions by Dick, but ABC asked him to either sell his shares in these companies or leave the network so there was no conflict of interest. He chose to sell and continue on as host of "American Bandstand", which was unaffected by the scandal.

Dick moved American Bandstand from Philadelphia to Los Angeles in 1964. He became more involved in television production. Under his company Dick Clark Productions, he produced such shows as "Where the Action Is", "TV's Bloopers and Practical Jokes", and more recently, "So You Think You Can Dance", as well as made-for-television movies. Dick also hosted television's "$10,000 Pyramid", "TV Bloopers and Practical Jokes" with co-host Ed McMahon, whom he introduced to Johnny Carson. He also hosted "Scattergories", and "The Other Half". Clark also had several radio programs, including "The Dick Clark National Music Survey", "Countdown America", and "Rock, Roll & Remember". 

Dick Clark said on one episode of The $100,000 Pyramid he married Kari Wigton on 7/7/77. At the ceremony there were 7 candles and 7 people in the wedding party. Actor John Davidson's father officiated at the ceremony, and they asked if he could finish the whole ceremony in 17 minutes, which he did.

In 1972, he produced and hosted the very first edition of "Dick Clark's New Year's Rockin' Eve". New Year's Rockin' Eve soon became a cultural tradition, airing on ABC every year with Clark as host. Neither Dick Clark nor his wife drank, even on New Years Eve.

Dick Clark was a huge Flintstones fan and owned a "Bedrock" inspired estate in Malibu, California worth a cool 3.5 million dollars.

In December 2004, Dick suffered a minor stroke and was unable to host, so Regis Philbin stepped in as a substitute. The stroke had left him speech impaired but he returned to host New Year’s Rockin’ Eve show in 2005 along with “American Idol” host Ryan Seacrest.

The following year, Clark returned as co-host alongside primary host Ryan Seacrest. Many were worried about Clark due to his slurred and breathless speech, and he admitted on-air he was still recovering but that he wouldn't have missed the broadcast for the world. The following year, Seacrest became New Year's Rockin' Eve's primary host, but Clark always returned for the countdown.

Dick has received several notable awards including four Emmy Awards, the Daytime Emmy Lifetime Achievement Award in 1994, and the Peabody Award in 1999. He was inducted into the Hollywood Walk of Fame in 1976, The Radio Hall of Fame in 1990, Broadcasting Magazine Hall of Fame, the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, and the Academy of Television Arts & Sciences Hall of Fame. 

Dick had been in St. John's hospital in Los Angeles after undergoing an outpatient procedure the night of April 17, 2012. Dick suffered a massive heart attack following the procedure. Attempts to resuscitate him were unsuccessful and he died the next morning of April 18, 2012. He was cremated on April 20, and his ashes were scattered in the Pacific Ocean.

Did Marilyn Know About A Secret Airbase That Inspected Things From Outer Space?

Marilyn Monroe was the "Blonde Bombshell". Not only could she sing, dance and act, she was also very smart. Her life came to a tragic end on August 6, 1962, when she was found dead in her home by her housekeeper the victim of an apparent suicide. Some people however, think that she was murdered.

If Marilyn was murdered like some people theorize, was she murdered because she was going to blow the whistle on about aliens? Or was she going to inform the press about the President's plan to kill Castro.

A FBI document alleges that Marilyn Monroe knew about a secret airbase. The memo states five relevant points from the wire taps that were conducted. It also states that she was about to divulge what she knew to the public.

1. Rothberg discussed the apparent comeback of subject with Kilgallen and the break up with the Kennedys. Rothberg told Kilgallen that she was attending Hollywood parties hosted by the “inner circle” among Hollywood’s elite and was becoming the talk of the town again. Rothberg indicated in so many words, that she had secrets to tell, no doubt arising from her trists with the President and the Attorney General. One such “secret” mentions the visit by the President at a secret air base for the purpose of inspecting things from outer space. Kilgallen replied that she knew what might be the source of visit. In the mid-fifties Kilgallen learned of secret effort by US and UK governments to identify the origins of crashed spacecraft and dead bodies, from a British government official. Kilgallen believed the story may have come from the New Mexico story in the late forties. Kilgallen said that if the story is true, it would cause terrible embarrassment for Jack and his plans to have NASA put men on the moon.

2. Subject repeatedly called the Attorney General and complained about the way she was being ignored by the President and his brother.

3. Subject threatened to hold a press conference and would tell all.

4. Subject made reference to “bases” in Cuba and knew of the President’s plan to kill Castro.

5. Subject made reference to her “diary of secrets” and what the newspapers would do with such disclosures.

The memo is signed head of CIA counterintelligence James Jesus Angleton.

Heath Ledger's Death: Accident or Murder?

"If you are just safe about your choices you make, you just don't grow."

Heath Andrew Ledger was born April 4th, 1979 in Perth, Western Australia to Sally, a French teacher, and Kim Ledger, a racing car driver and mining engineer. 

He found a passion for playing chess. At the age of 10, he won Western Australia's Junior Chess Championship. 

Heath attended Guildford Grammar School, where he had his first acting experiences, starring in a school production as Peter Pan at the age of 13. His parents divorced when he was 11.

Heath's older sister Kate, an actress and later a publicist, to whom he was very close, inspired his acting on stage, and his love of Gene Kelly inspired his successful choreography. Heath has two half-sisters, Ashleigh Bell and Olivia Ledger.

Did you know that when Heath was young he loved Chuck Norris?

After sitting for early graduation exams at age 17, Heath left school and traveled cross country to pursue an acting career. 

Heath's professional acting job was as an orphaned clown in the first part of a 1992 two-part Australian television series called Clowning Around. 

He was in the short-lived Fox Broadcasting Company fantasy-drama Roar in 1997. The series was nominated for several awards and exposed Heath to American audiences and Fox executives. 

His feature film debut was in the 1997 Australian film Blackrock.  

Heath sought out an American agent and moved to Los Angeles, California when he was 19. 

His breakout role was in 1999 in the teen comedy 10 Things I Hate About You. 

In 2000, Mel Gibson cast him as his son in the movie The Patriot. 

Also in 2000, he starred opposite of Billy Bob Thorton in the movie Monster's Ball. 

He received Academy Award and Golden Globe nominations for his role in Brokeback Mountain. 

Heath played the Joker in the 2008 film The Dark Knight, which was released nearly six months after his death. 

Did you know that in the hospital scene when The Joker is seen dressed up as nurse, his name tag reads Matilda, the name of his daughter?

At the time of his death on 22 January 2008, Heath had completed about half of the work for his final film performance as Tony in The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus. The film was adapted after his death and fellow actors Johnny Depp, Jude Law, and Colin Farrell play "fantasy transformations" of his character so that Heath's final performance could be seen in theaters.

Heath directed some music videos with his production company The Masses. 

Heath created and acted in a music video set to Nick Drake's recording of the singer's 1974 song about depression "Black Eyed Dog". 

He was working with Scottish screenwriter and producer Allan Scott on an adaptation of the 1983 novel The Queen's Gambit, which would have been his first feature film as a director. He also intended to act in the film. 

Heath's final directorial work, an animated feature for Modest Mouse's song, "King Rat", and the Woodroofe video for her cover of David Bowie's "Quicksand" premiered in 2009. 

It was on the set of Brokeback Mountain that Heath met actress Michelle Williams. 

The two had a child together, Matilda Rose, who was born on October 28th, 2005, in New York City. In September of 2007, Heath and Michelle ended their relationship.

On January 22, 2008, at about 3 p.m., Heath was found unconscious in his bed by his housekeeper, Teresa Solomon, and his masseuse, Diana Wolozin, at his loft in the SoHo neighborhood of Manhattan. 

Wolozin used Heath's cell phone to call Heath's friend, Mary-Kate Olsen, for help. Olsen, who was in California, directed a New York City private security guard to go to the scene. At 3:26 pm, Wolozin telephoned 9-1-1 "to say that Mr. Ledger was not breathing". 

Wolozin administered CPR, which was unsuccessful in reviving him. Emergency medical technicians arrived at Ledger's apartment at 3:33 p.m., but were unable to revive him. At 3:36 pm, Heath was pronounced dead, and his body was removed from the apartment. 

Why did Wolozin call Olsen first? Did you know that Wolozin changed her story a few times, initially saying she called Mary-Kate two times when actually it was four times?Also later it was revealed she wasn’t a licensed therapist.

On February 6th, 2008, based on an initial autopsy and a subsequent complete toxicological analysis Heath's cause of death was an accident, resulting from the abuse of prescribed medications  oxycodone, hydrocodone, diazepam, temazepam, alprazolam and doxylamine. Heath had a prescription for everything except oxycodone and hydrocodone in the lethal drug combination that killed him and it is still unknown where he got them from.

Before his death, Heath was sick and possibly had walking Pneumonia which he was taking medication for. He also had too much energy and had a hard time sleeping. Allegedly he was taking medication for that as well. 

It was initially theorized that Heath was depressed and his role as "Joker" in "the Dark Knight" made it worse, but his sister says he was happy. 

"I was really shocked, because that was him having fun.

 Every report was coming out that he was depressed and that [the role] was taking this toll on him, and we're going, honestly, it was the absolute opposite. 

It couldn't be more wrong.

He had an amazing sense of humor, and I guess maybe only his family and friends knew that, but he was having fun. 

He wasn't depressed about the Joker!"

Some people, Randy Quad being among them, claim that Heath was killed by the Illuminati.

After attending private memorial ceremonies in Los Angeles, Ledger's family members returned with his body to Perth. On 9 February, a memorial service attended by several hundred invited guests was held at Penrhos College. 

Afterward Heath's body was cremated at Fremantle Cemetery, followed by a private service attended by only 10 closest family members, with his ashes interred later in a family plot at Karrakatta Cemetery, next to two of his grandparents. 

Later that night, his family and friends gathered for a wake on Cottesloe Beach.

Did you know that Heath Ledger's estate was worth $20 million at the time of his death?

Desperate Housewive's Felicity Huffman And Full House's Lori Loughin Charged In Bribery Scandal

Felicity Huffman and Lori Loughin are among 48 others being charged in a $25 million nationwide college admissions cheating scam.

William Rick Singer, owner of a college counseling service called Key Worldwide Foundations, is their alleged ring leader. The group being indicted, dubbed as "Varsity Blues", allegedly paid bribes of up to $6 million to get their children into elite colleges.

The FBI recorded phone calls in which Loughlin and Huffman talked about the scheme with a witness who was cooperating with authorities.

Was News Anchor Jodi Huisentruit Abducted?

Jodi Sue Huisentruit was beautiful and accomplished.

She was born June 5th,1968 in Long Prairie Minnesota to Imogene L. "Jane" and Maurice Nicholas Huisentruit. She was very good at golf. In high school her team won the state Class A tournament in 1985 and 1986. She went to St. Cloud State University, where she studied mass communications and speech communication and graduated with a Bachelor's degree in 1990. Her first job after graduation was with Northwest Airlines. She entered broadcasting by getting a job at KGAN in Cedar Rapids, Iowa, as the station's Iowa City bureau chief.  Later she returned to Minnesota for a job at KSAX in Alexandria before returning to Iowa for her KIMT news anchor position.

On June 26th, 1995, 27 year old Jodi participated in a golf tournament and, according to Mason City resident John Vansice, she went to his home to view a video tape of the birthday party that he had arranged for her earlier in the month.

Jodi was scheduled to work the next day at 4:00 a.m. She spoke to a co-worker at the station at approximately that time and said that she would be arriving shortly from her home. She has never been seen again.

Her co-workers became concerned when she did not contact them by 7:00 a.m. and called the police. Police searched her apartment and some of her belongings were found scattered in the apartment complex's parking lot around her red Mazda Miata, including a pair of red dress shoes, a blow dryer, a bottle of hair spray, earrings, and her bent car key. A unidentified palm print was recovered from the car.

A co-worker assisted in searching Jodi's apartment, which showed no signs of a struggle.

Witnesses near her reported hearing a scream from the parking lot shortly after 4:00 a.m. A neighbor that lived nearby reported seeing a white van with its running lights on parked in Jodi's parking lot at about the same time. This van was never positively identified. It is believed that Jodi was taken against her from the lot that morning. There has been no sign of her since that time.

Mason City Police Department executed a search warrant on March 20, 2017, for GPS data on two cars related to John Vansice.

Jodi's sister Nathe believes Vansice was “fixated” on her sister, even though Jodi had never once mentioned his name to her.

Nathe isn’t convinced that only one person was responsible for the crime. Nathe said her sister’s landlord reported hearing “two different male voices” in the parking lot at the time and the sound of a loud muffler.

At the time of her disappearance Jodi was 5'3 - 5'4, 110 - 120 pounds with blonde hair, brown eyes and pierced ears.

Ronald Reagan: Actor, President And Secret FBI Informant

Ronald Reagan, the 40th President Of the United States

“Freedom is never more than one generation away from extinction. We didn't pass it to our children in the bloodstream. It must be fought for, protected, and handed on for them to do the same, or one day we will spend our sunset years telling our children and our children's children what it was once like in the United States where men were free.”

Ronald Wilson Reagan was born on February 6th, 1911 in Tampico Illinois to Nelle Clyde Wilson and Jack Reagan. 

Nelle taught Ronald to always expect to find the best in people which he often did.

Jack was a salesman and a story teller. Jack nicknamed Ronald "Dutch" due to his "fat little Dutchman"-like appearance and "Dutchboy" haircut.

Ronald’s ancestry is Irish on his father’s side and Scots-English on his mother’s side.

Ronald was raised in a poor family in a small town of northern Illinois.

He was baptized into the the Disciples of Christ faith in 1922.

Long before the civil rights movement, Ronald opposed racial discrimination. One time in Dixon, the proprietor of a local inn would not allow black people to stay there, Ronald brought them back to his house. His mother invited them to stay overnight and have breakfast the next morning.

At Dixon High School Ronald developed interests in acting, sports, and storytelling.

Ronald's first job was as a summer lifeguard at Rock River in Lowell Park. He preformed 77 rescues over six years.

He attended Eureka College were he majored in economics and sociology and graduated with a C grade. He was a member of Tau Kappa Epsilon fraternity, a cheerleader, was on the football team and was captain of the swim team. He was elected student body president and led a student revolt against the college president after the president tried to cut back the faculty.

After he graduated college in 1932, Ronald worked as a sports announcer on several regional radio stations before moving to WHO radio in Des Moines, Iowa. There he was as an announcer for Chicago Cubs baseball games creating play-by-play accounts of games using only basic descriptions that the station received by wire as the games were in progress.

In 1937, Ronald traveled with the Cubs to California, while there he took a screen test with Warner Brothers Studios. This lead to a seven year contract.

His first starring role was in the 1937 movie Love Is on the Air. 

In 1938, on the set of the film Brother Rat, Ronald met fellow actress Jane Wyman. 

They fell in love and were married on January 26, 1940 at the Wee Kirk o' the Heather church in Glendale, California. 

Together they had three children, Maureen, Christine and Michael. Christine only lived one day and Michael was adopted.

Ronald lost partial hearing in one ear when he was hurt on the movie set "Code Of The Secret Service" in 1939 after a gun was fired next to his ear. Decades later, President Reagan wrote to Michael Jackson offering his support after Jackson was burned filming Pepsi TV commercial.

By the end of 1939 he had already appeared in 19 films.

In 1940, in the film Knute Rockne, All American, Ronald played the role of George "The Gipper" Gipp and from it, he acquired the lifelong nickname "the Gipper".

Ronald acted in the 1942 movie "Kings Row" where he played a double amputee who recites the line "Where's the rest of me?" This was his favorite movie he acted in.

One April 14th, 1942, he was ordered to military active duty in San Francisco. He classified for limited service only due to his poor eyesight, this excluded him from serving overseas. He was promoted to captain of the First Motion Picture Unit on July 22, 1943 where  he was indirectly involved in discovering actress Marilyn Monroe. He returned to Fort MacArthur, California, where he was separated from active duty on December 9, 1945.

In December 1945, he was stopped from leading an anti-nuclear rally in Hollywood by pressure from the Warner Bros. studio.

Ronald was twice elected President of the Screen Actors Guild in the 1940's. During this time Ronald and his then wife Jane, provided the FBI with the names of actors within the motion picture industry whom they believed to be communist sympathizers. 

He also testified in front of the House Un-American Activities Committee against the "Hollywood Ten."

Ronald had doubts about being a spy for the government. Before the House Un-American Activities Committee, he stated,

"I never as a citizen want to see our country become urged, by either fear or resentment of this group, that we ever compromise with any of our democratic principles through that fear or resentment."

Ronald Reagan started out as a democrat and his wife, Jane, a republican. This along with Ronald's Screen Actors Guild duties lead Jane to file for divorce in 1948. Their divorced was finalized in 1949.

In 1949, Ronald met actress Nancy Davis while he was helping her with her name appearing on a Communist blacklist in Hollywood. She had been mistaken for another lady of the same name. Nancy described their meeting as, 

"I don't know if it was exactly love at first sight, but it was pretty close."

They were married on March 4, 1952, at the Little Brown Church in the valley with actor William Holden serving as best man. 

Together they had two children together, Patti and Ronald "Ron" Jr.

Ronald became a motivational speaker at General Electric factories.

Franklin D. Roosevelt was "a true hero" to Ronald, but  Ronald became a Republican in 1962 and was a leading conservative spokesman in the Goldwater campaign of 1964. 

Ronald believed in the importance of smaller government. 

In his famous speech, "A Time for Choosing" Ronald states,

"The Founding Fathers knew a government can't control the economy without controlling people. And they knew when a government sets out to do that, it must use force and coercion to achieve its purpose. So we have come to a time for choosing ... You and I are told we must choose between a left or right, but I suggest there is no such thing as a left or right. There is only an up or down. Up to man's age-old dream—the maximum of individual freedom consistent with order—or down to the ant heap of totalitarianism"

Ronald's last movie role was in the 1964, The Killers. It was based on an Ernest Hemingway story, and  Ronald's only role as a villain in a film. It was the first made-for-TV movie, but was considered too violent for TV, and released to movie theaters instead.

His final work as a professional actor, Ronald was a host and performer from 1964 to 1965 on the television series Death Valley Days.

When Ronald was newly elected governor of California in 1966, by defeating former San Francisco mayor George Christopher, he sided with his political benefactors over Cesar Chavez.

Cesar Chavez led the movement to end the underpayment and inhumane working conditions endured by over a million Mexican-American farm workers.

Reagan's campaign emphasized "to send the welfare bums back to work," and "to clean up the mess at Berkeley". During his tenure as senator, Ronald raised taxes and turned a state budget deficit to a surplus. He also ordered in National Guard troops during the People's Park protests at the University of California. 

This led to an incident that became known as "Bloody Thursday," resulting in the death of student James Rector and the blinding of carpenter Alan Blanchard. 

Ronald was re-elected as Governor in 1970 defeating "Big Daddy" Jesse M. Unruh. That year, Ronald then responded to questions about campus protest movements saying, 

"If it takes a bloodbath, let's get it over with. 

No more appeasement."

Ronald was "pro-life" he was quoted as saying, 

“I've noticed that everyone who is for abortion has already been born.”

In 1967, Reagan signed the Mulford Act, which repealed a law allowing public carrying of loaded firearms. This garnered national attention after the Black Panthers marched bearing arms upon the California State Capitol to protest it.

He strongly supported capital punishment.

In 1968 and 1976, he ran unsuccessfully for the Republican presidential nomination. Four years later, he won the nomination, and then defeated incumbent president Jimmy Carter.

Ronald's campaign included, lowering taxes to stimulate the economy, less government interference in people's lives, states' rights, and a strong national defense.

George H. W. Bush was Ronald's running mate.

Debategate, was a political scandal that took place in the final days of the 1980 presidential election. Reagan's team had somehow acquired President Jimmy Carter's top secret briefing papers that Carter used in the preparation for the October 28, 1980, debate with Reagan.

On November 4, 1980, Ronald won over Carter, carrying 44 states and receiving 489 electoral votes. Ronald also won the popular vote.

Ronald was 69 years old at the time of his inauguration. Until Donald Trump came along, Ronald was the oldest president-elect to take the oath of office. Ronald was also the the first person elected as President to have been divorced.

After taking office, Ronald began implementing his  "Reaganomics", which were his economic policies associated especially with the reduction of taxes and the promotion of unrestricted free-market activity. This spurred economic growth, economic deregulation, and reduction in government spending.

In his first year in office Ronald appointed Sandra Day O'Connor as America's first female Supreme Court Justice. He also appointed Clarence M. Pendleton Jr., of San Diego as the first African American to chair the United States Commission on Civil Rights.

In 1981, Ronald became the first president to propose a constitutional amendment on school prayer stating,

"Nothing in this Constitution shall be construed to prohibit individual or group prayer in public schools or other public institutions. 

No person shall be required by the United States or by any state to participate in prayer."

On March 30, 1981, Ronald was leaving the Hilton Hotel in Washington, D.C. when he was shot at six times by John Hinckley, who was loitering by a poorly guarded exit. Ronald only was hit once because the bullet ricocheted off the presidential limousine and into his’s chest. A police officer was wounded, as well as a Secret Service agent, and press secretary James Brady. The attack left Brady partially paralyzed. Hinckley was obsessed with actress Jodie Foster and he claims that he tried to kill Ronald in order to impress her. Hinckley was found not guilty by reason of insanity on June 21, 1982.

Also in 1981, the AID's crisis arrived in the United States. Some say Ronald largely ignored the crisis and did little about it. By the time Ronald had given his first speech on the epidemic, it was six years into his presidency. 36,058 Americans had been diagnosed with AIDS and 20,849 had died of it. By the end of  the year Reagan left office, 115,786 people had been diagnosed with AIDS in the United States, and more than 70,000 of them had died of it.

However federal funding for AIDS-related programs was $2.3 billion in 1989 and nearly $6 billion total over his presidency.

In 1982, Ronald signed legislation establishing a federal Martin Luther King holiday.

Ronald began the War on Drugs campaign in 1982 saying that "drugs were menacing our society". He promised to fight for drug-free schools and workplaces, expand drug treatment, strengthen law enforcement and drug interdiction efforts, and bring fourth greater public awareness.

Ronald ordered a massive buildup of the United States Armed Forces. He revived the B-1 Lancer program that had been canceled by the Carter administration, and he produced the MX missile. 

In 1982 Ronald impeded Moscow's proposed gas line to Western Europe. It hurt the Soviet economy, but it also caused ill will among American allies in Europe who counted on that revenue. Ronald retreated on this issue.

On March 3, 1983, Ronald predicted that communism would collapse, stating,

 "Communism is another sad, bizarre chapter in human history whose last pages even now are being written."

In September of 1983, Ronald's administration suspended all Soviet passenger air service to the United States, and dropped several agreements being negotiated with the Soviets after Soviet fighters downed Korean Air Lines Flight 007 near Moneron Island. The flight carried 269 people, including Georgia congressman Larry McDonald. Ronald stated that that act was "massacre" and said that the Soviets had turned "against the world and the moral precepts which guide human relations among people everywhere."

Ronald deployed the CIA's Special Activities Division to Afghanistan and Pakistan. They trained, equipped and lead Mujahideen forces against the Soviet Army. This action credited him for assisting in ending the Soviet occupation of Afghanistan. The CIA also began sharing information with the Iranian government, which it was secretly courting. This cost billions of dollars, advanced the career of a Mujahidin commander named Osama bin Laden and led to the emergence of the Taliban.

He did all of this in order to curtail the Soviet Union's influence over Central Asia.
He also continued the war after the USSR's retreat.
This helped bring about bin Laden's ascendancy in the region.Reagan illegally sold weapons to the unfriendly Iranian government to fund right-wing rebel forces in Nicaragua.

This leading to the Iran-Contra scandal.

In March 1983, Ronald introduced the Strategic Defense Initiative. This was a missile defense system intended to protect the United States from attack by intercontinental ballistic missiles and submarine-launched ballistic missiles. He believed that this could make nuclear war impossible.

In 1983, Ronald sent forces to Lebanon for a peacekeeping mission during the Lebanese Civil War. On October 23, 1983, two truck bombs struck buildings, that housed that peacekeeping operation, in Beirut, Lebanon. The attack killed 241 U.S. and 58 French peacekeepers, 6 civilian, and the 2 attackers. Ronald sent in the USS New Jersey battleship to shell Syrian positions in Lebanon, he then withdrew all the Marines from there.

On October 25th, 1983,  Ronald, citing the threat posed to American nationals on the Caribbean nation of Grenada by that nation's Marxist regime, ordered the Marines to parachute into battle during Operation Urgent Fury. Operation Urgent Fury was the first major military operation conducted by U.S. forces since the Vietnam War. After several days of fighting, the U.S. was victorious, with 19 American fatalities and 116 wounded American soldiers. In mid-December, after a new government was appointed by the governor-general, U.S. forces withdrew.

When Ronald ran for re-election in 1984, he defeated former vice president Walter Mondale in a landslide with the second-largest electoral college victory in American history.

In 1986, Reagan signed a drug enforcement bill that budgeted $1.7 billion to fund the War on Drugs and specified a mandatory minimum penalty for drug offenses. This was highly criticized  for promoting significant racial disparities in the prison population and for doing nothing to change the availability of this drugs on the street.

On January 28th, 1986, the night of the Space Shuttle Challenge disaster, Ronald delivered a speech, written by Peggy Noonan, in which he said:

"The future doesn't belong to the fainthearted; it belongs to the brave ... We will never forget them, nor the last time we saw them, this morning, as they prepared for their journey and waved goodbye and 'slipped the surly bonds of Earth' to 'touch the face of God.'"

On Tuesday, April 15, 1986, in retaliation for the West Berlin discotheque bombing, that resulted in the injury of 63 American military personnel and death of one serviceman, Ronald authorized the use of force against the country. In the late evening of April 15, 1986, the United States launched a series of airstrikes, code-named Operation El Dorado Canyon, on ground targets in Libya. To explain his actions, Ronald said,

"When our citizens are attacked or abused anywhere in the world on the direct orders of hostile regimes, we will respond so long as I'm in this office.

Ronald signed the Immigration Reform and Control Act which enacted on November 6th, 1986, which was passed in order to control and deter illegal immigration to the United States. This made it illegal to knowingly hire or recruit illegal immigrants, required employers to attest to their employees' immigration status, and granted amnesty to approximately three million illegal immigrants who entered the United States before January 1, 1982, and had lived in the country continuously.

The Iran Contra Affair came to light in November 1986. when Ronald Reagan conceded that the United States had sold weapons to the Islamic Republic of Iran.
It was part of a largely successful effort to secure the release of six U.S. citizens being held hostage in Lebanon.
Some of the money from the arms deal had been covertly and illegally funneled into a fund to aid the right wing Contras counter revolutionary groups seeking to overthrow the socialist Sandinista government of Nicaragua.

Ronald escalated an arms race with the USSR while engaging in talks with Gorbachev.

Speaking at the Berlin Wall on June 12, 1987, Ronald challenged Soviet General Secretary Mikhail Gorbachev to "tear down this wall!"

When Gorbachev visited Washington in December 1987, he and Reagan signed the Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces Treaty. This eliminated an entire class of nuclear weapons. 

In 1988, he vetoed the Civil Rights Restoration Act, arguing that the legislation infringed on states' rights and the rights of churches and business owners. His veto was overridden by Congress.

In 1988, near the end of the Iran–Iraq War, the U.S. Navy guided missile cruiser USS Vincennes accidentally shot down Iran Air Flight 655, killing 290 civilian passengers. 

He was the first president since Dwight D. Eisenhower to serve two full terms, after a succession of five prior presidents did not.

In November 1994, Ronald announced, through a letter, that he had been diagnosed with Alzheimer's disease earlier that year. The letter read,

"I have recently been told that I am one of the millions of Americans who will be afflicted with Alzheimer's Disease ... 

At the moment I feel just fine. 

I intend to live the remainder of the years God gives me on this earth doing the things I have always done ... 

I now begin the journey that will lead me into the sunset of my life. I know that for America there will always be a bright dawn ahead. Thank you, my friends. 

May God always bless you."

Ronald's son Ron said he had suspected early signs of his father's dementia as early as 1984 and former CBS White House correspondent Lesley Stahl said that in her final meeting with the president in 1986, Ronald did not seem to know who Stahl was at first. However, all four of Ronald's White House doctors said that they saw no evidence of Alzheimer's while he was president.

Ronald did suffered an episode of head trauma in July 1989, after being thrown from a horse in Mexico. A subdural hematoma was found and surgically treated later in the year. The fall supposedly hastened the onset of Alzheimer's disease. 

He passed away of pneumonia, complicated by Alzheimer's disease, at age 93, at his home in the Bel Air district of Los Angeles, California on  Saturday, June 5th, 2004, at 1 p.m. 

He had a seven day state funeral, which was executed by the Military District of Washington. 

Ronald Reagan was the first former U.S. president to die in the 21st century.

In this life Ronald Reagan won many honors including, being made an Honorary Knight Grand Cross of the Order of the Bath, the Presidential Medal of Freedom the Republican Senatorial Medal of Freedom. 

Did you know that Ronald Reagan loved jelly beans and black licorice was is favorite flavor? He was trying to kick a pipe smoking habit. He wasn't a fussy eater, but he hated brussels sprouts and tomatoes.

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