The Shootist, John Wayne’s last film, was nominated for an Oscar (for Best Art Direction, today called Best Production Design), a Golden Globe, a BAFTA film award, and a Writers Guild of America ...

John Wayne’s retired boxer Sean Thornton makes a pilgrimage to his home village in 1920s Ireland to claim his family estate. There he meets his match with Maureen O’Hara’s Mary Kate Danaher ...

John Wayne Gacy was found guilty March 12, 1980, of killing 33 young men. (Chicago Tribune) 1980: After five weeks of testimony from psychiatrists, police, neighbors, acquaintances and family ...

John Wayne and Maureen O’Hara made five films together, including three with director John Ford. But the trio’s best known ...

An icon of Hollywood’s golden age, few people can boast the same cultural impact as John Wayne. Emerging into the film industry back in the 1920s as a protégé of John Ford, Wayne went on to become a ...

John Roehrig ended up on the front lines of the ... Roehrig started working for the CDC's Fort Collins-based Division of Vector-borne Diseases as a research microbiologist in 1979 — six years ...

Washington Capitals star Alex Ovechkin tied Wayne Gretzky's all-time NHL goal record Friday night with two scores against the Chicago Blackhawks. "The Great One" was in the building, with ...

It was named for Washington Post sports writer John Feinstein, and it was the place he was assigned to sit whenever he came to cover the Hoosiers. This was not a place of honor. It was a ...