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Joseph Wershba (August 19, 1920 - May 14, 2011) was a professional journalist who joined the CBS News team in 1944, where he served as a writer, editor and correspondent. He was one of the six original producers of CBS's 60 Minutes from 1968-1988. Counted among his colleagues are newscasters Edward R. Murrow and Walter Cronkite.
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Foster Jay Taylor, known as F. Jay Taylor (August 9, 1923 – May 15, 2011)was a historian who served from 1962-1987 as the president of Louisiana Tech University in Ruston in Lincoln Parish in north Louisiana. Taylor penned books on the American and the Spanish civil wars.

M-Bone, 22, American rapper and dancer (Cali Swag District), shot.

Bob Flanigan (August 22, 1926 – May 15, 2011), was an American tenor vocalist and founding member of The Four Freshmen, a jazz vocal group.

Flanigan, who was born in Greencastle, Indiana, was a respected trombonist, and also played bass guitar with the outfit for several decades, beginning on September 20, 1948, and sang the top part.

After retiring from performing in 1992, Flanigan maintained the band's name and was responsible for the group's changing cast of performers.

Flanigan died of congestive heart failure at his home in Las Vegas, Nevada, on May 15, 2011. He was 84.

John Feikens, 93, American federal judge, after long illness

Nor but in sleep findeth a cure for care.
Incertainty that once gave scope to dream
Of laughing enterprise and glory untold,
Is now a blackness that no stars redeem.

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Harmon Killebrew, 74, American Hall of Fame baseball player (Minnesota Twins), esophageal cancer

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Nor but in sleep findeth a cure for care.
Incertainty that once gave scope to dream
Of laughing enterprise and glory untold,
Is now a blackness that no stars redeem.

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