Nov 28

[forrest]

Nov 28 1942

A fire at the sleazy Cocoanut Grove nightclub, Boston, kills 491 people. Flammable artificial palm trees aided the spread of the fire. The numerous dead were crushed, burnt, and asphyxiated, all within minutes.

Nov 28 1953

Frank Olson, government scientist, jumps to his death from the Statler Hotel in New York City. In 1975 it is revealed that Olson had been administered LSD by Dr. Sidney Gottlieb in a CIA experiment.
Frank Olson - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frank_Olson)
Frank Olson Legacy Project (http://www.frankolsonproject.org/)
Olson Family Statement, August 8, 2002 (http://www.frankolsonproject.org/Statements/FamilyStatement2002.html)
The Frank Olson Murder (http://www.serendipity.li/cia/olson2.htm)
Part One: The Mysterious Death of CIA Scientist Frank Olson by H.P. Albarelli Jr. (http://www.crimemagazine.com/olson.htm)

Nov 28 1981

A drunk Natalie Wood topples off her yacht near Catalina Island and drowns. Her husband Robert Wagner, and melodramatic friend Christopher Walken, were onboard and unaware of her predicament, apparently having some sort of argument in the cabin.

Nov 28 1994

Homosexual cannibal Jeffrey Dahmer beaten to death with a broomstick by inmate Christopher Scarver while cleaning the prison bathroom. Dahmer's brain was to be preserved in formaldehyde at the request of Mom, but a court ordered its destruction in late 1995.

[Hippie Staff]

I dispute the Natalie Wood drowning. They offed her.

[forrest]

I dispute the Natalie Wood drowning. They offed her.

I remember that just about everyone I knew at the time said he killed her!
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"Natasha:
The Biography of Natalie Wood"
With Suzanne Finstad
Author
Thursday, July 26, 2001; 1 p.m. EDT

This year marks 20 years since actress Natalie Wood's mysterious drowning from her yacht off Catalina Island at the age of 43. Author Suzanne Finstad provides a detailed examination of that Thanksgiving weekend when Wood, Robert Wagner and Christopher Walken sailed the "Splendor," culminating in her disappearance.

Finstad covers the life of Natasha Zakharenko (Wood) from her childhood dominated by a stage mother to becoming a product of the Hollywood studio system and a glamorous star of some classic films (Miracle on 34th Street, The Searchers, Rebel Without a Cause, Splendor in the Grass, West Side Story and Gypsy).
http://discuss.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/zforum/01/authors_finstad072601.htm
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(CBS) Twenty-seven years after the mysterious drowning death of screen star Natalie Wood, her husband, fellow star Robert Wagner, is coming forward, telling his story for the first time of what happened.

As a young star, Wood appeared in movies such as "Rebel Without a Cause" and, most notably, had the lead role in "West Side Story," and lit up the screen with ease.

But her life off-screen was, at times, turbulent.

According to The Times Of London, which says it has a source who's has seen the manuscript of an autobiography Wagner is preparing, "Pieces of My Heart," Wagner says Wood apparently slipped accidentally and unnoticed into the water, never to be seen alive again.

In the book, Wagner says he and Wood were partying on their yacht with actor Christopher Walken late on the night of Nov. 29, 1981 in the waters off Catalina Island, when tragedy struck.
http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2008/08/18/earlyshow/leisure/celebspot/main4357688.shtml