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J. Ernest Wilkins, Jr., American mathematician and nuclear scientist died he was , 87.

 Jesse Ernest Wilkins, Jr. was an African American mathematician and nuclear scientist, who gained first fame on entering the University of Chicago at age 13, becoming its youngest ever student died he was , 87. His intelligence led to him being referred to as a "negro genius" in the media.
As part of a widely varied and notable career, Wilkins contributed to the Manhattan Project during the Second World War. He also gained fame working in and conducting nuclear physics research in both academia and industry. He wrote numerous scientific papers, served in various important posts, earned several significant awards and helped recruit minority students into the sciences.
During his studies, and various careers he was not untouched by the prevalent racism that existed for much of his life.

(November 27, 1923 – May 1, 2011)

Education

In 1940 Wilkins completed his B.Sc. in mathematics at age 17, then his M.Sc. at age 18, and finally went on to complete a Ph.D in mathematics at the University of Chicago, graduating in 1942 at age 19.[4] In order to improve his rapport with the nuclear engineers reporting to him, Wilkins later received both Bachelor's and Master's degrees in mechanical engineering from New York University in 1957 and 1960,[2][7] thus earning five science degrees during his life.

Career

After initially failing to secure a research position at his alma mater in Chicago, Wilkins taught mathematics from 1943 to 1944 at the Tuskegee Institute (now called Tuskegee University) in Alabama.[2]
In 1944 he returned to the University of Chicago where he served first as an associate mathematical physicist and then as a physicist in its Metallurgical Laboratory, as part of the Manhattan Project.[4] Working under the direction of Arthur Holly Compton and Enrico Fermi, Wilkins researched the extraction of fissionable nuclear materials, but was not told of the research group's ultimate goal until after the atomic bomb was dropped on Hiroshima. Wilkins was the codiscoverer or discoverer of a number of phenomena in nuclear physics such as the Wilkins Effect, plus the Wigner-Wilkins and Wilkins spectra.[7]
Wilkins then continued to teach mathematics and conduct significant research in neutron absorption with physicist Eugene Wigner, including the development of mathematical models for that.[2][4] He would also later help design and develop nuclear reactors for electrical power generation, becoming part owner of one such company.[4]
In 1970 Wilkins went on to serve Howard University as its distinguished professor of Applied Mathematical Physics and also founded the university's new PhD program in mathematics.[4] During his tenure at Howard he undertook a sabbatical position as a visiting scientist at Argonne National Laboratory from 1976 to 1977.[2]
From 1974 to 1975 Wilkins served as president of the American Nuclear Society[8][4] and in 1976 became the second African American to be elected to the National Academy of Engineering.[9][4]
From 1990 Wilkins lived and worked in Atlanta, Georgia as a Distinguished Professor of Applied Mathematics and Mathematical Physics at Clark Atlanta University, and retired again for his last time in 2003.[2][9]
Throughout his years of research Wilkins published more than 100 papers on a variety of subjects, including differential geometry, linear differential equations, integrals, nuclear engineering, gamma radiation shielding and optics, garnering numerous professional and scientific awards along the way.[2][10]

Personal and family

Wilkins had two children with his first wife Gloria Louise Steward (d.1980) whom he married in June 1947,[1][7] and subsequently married Maxine G. Malone. He was married a third time to Vera Wood Anderson in Chicago in September 2003.[7]
Wilkins' father J Ernest Wilkins, Sr. was an equally notable figure, but in different spheres. He was appointed Assistant Secretary of Labor in 1954 by president Dwight D. Eisenhower and thus became the first African American to hold a sub-cabinet position in the United States Government.
One of Wilkins' grandfathers was also notable for founding St. Mark's Methodist Church in New York City.[2]
In 2010 a niece of Wilkins, Jr., Carolyn Marie Wilkins, Professor at the Berklee College of Music in Boston, wrote of Wilkins' father and her family more generally in her biography Damn Near White: An African American Family's Rise from Slavery to Bittersweet Success.[11]
Wilkins died on May 1, 2011 in Fountain Hills, Arizona.[1] He was survived by his two children, Sharon Wilkins Hill and J. Ernest Wilkins III,[1] plus three grandchildren and two great-grand-children, and was buried at the National Memorial Cemetery, Cave Creek, Arizona on May 5.[1]

Tributes and honours

Wilkins portrait and plaque honoring him in the Eckhart Hall Tea Room of the Physical Sciences Division, University of Chicago (2007).
  • The Wikins Effect, plus the Wigner-Wilkins and Wilkins Spectra, discovered during the 1940s, are named or co-named after him;[6]
  • In March 2007 Wilkins was honored by his alma mater, the University of Chicago, in a special ceremony that included the dedication of his portrait and a plaque in the Eckhart Hall Tea Room of its Physical Sciences Division.[5]

Selected writings and other works

As listed in this work:
Texts
Periodicals
  • with Herbert Goldstein and L. Volume Spencer, Systematic Calculations of Gamma-Ray Penetration, Physical Review, 1953;
  • "The Silverman Necessary Condition for Multiple Integrals in the Calculus of Variations", Proceedings of the American Mathematical Society, 1974;
  • "A Variational Problem in Hilbert Space, " Applied Mathematics and Optimization, 1975-76;
  • with Keshav N. Srivastava, "Minimum Critical Mass Nuclear Reactors, Part I and Part II", Nuclear Science and Engineering, 1982;
  • with J. N. Kibe, "Apodization for Maximum Central Irradiance and Specified Large Rayleigh Limit of Resolution, II ", Journal of the Optical Society of America A, Optics and Image Science, 1984;
  • "A Modulus of Continuity for a Class of Quasismooth Functions", Proceedings of the American Mathematical Society, 1985;
  • "An Asymptotic Expansion for the Expected Number of Real Zeros of a Random Polynomial", Proceedings of the American Mathematical Society, 1988;
  • "An Integral Inequality", Proceedings of the American Mathematical Society, 1991;
  • with Shantay A. Souter "Mean Number of Real Zeros of a Random Trigonometric Polynomial. III", Journal of Applied Mathematics and Stochastic Analysis, 1995;
  • "The Expected Value of the Number of Real Zeros of a Random Sum of Legendre Polynomials", Proceedings of the American Mathematical Society, 1997;
  • "Mean Number of Real Zeros of a Random Trigonometric Polynomial IV", Journal of Applied Mathematics and Stochastic Analysis, 1997;
  • "Mean Number of Real Zeros of a Random Hyperbolic Polynomial", International Journal of Mathematics and Mathematical Sciences, 2000.
Other work
  • "Optimization of Extended Surfaces for Heat Transfer", video recording, American Mathematical Society, 1994.
Biographies

 

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Ronald D. Asmus, American diplomat and political analyst, died from cancer he was , 53.

Ronald Dietrich Asmus  was an United States diplomat and political analyst died from cancer he was , 53. He, as U.S. Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for European Affairs (1997–2000), was instrumental in the expansion of NATO to include former members of the Eastern bloc and acted as a leading policy designer in the U.S.–Europe relations. 

(June 29, 1957 – April 30, 2011)

Biography

Asmus was born to the family of German immigrants who came to Milwaukee, Wisconsin after World War II. He grew up in Milwaukee and Mequon, Wisconsin graduating from Homestead High School.[4] Asmus was an early and strong proponent of expanding NATO into Eastern Europe. He was U.S. Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for European Affairs in the Clinton Administration from 1997 to 2000. He played an important role in the 1999 Washington summit of NATO, when Poland, the Czech Republic and Hungary joined the Alliance.[3] He was also a senior analyst and fellow at Radio Free Europe, RAND and the Council on Foreign Relations. For his diplomatic work, Asmus was decorated by the US Department of State and the governments of Estonia, Georgia, Italy, Latvia, Lithuania, Poland, and Sweden.[2][5]
Asmus held a PhD in European Studies, a Master’s degree in Soviet and East European studies from the Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced International Studies of the Johns Hopkins University, and a BA in political science from the University of Wisconsin–Madison. He was the Executive Director of the Brussels-based Transatlantic Center and was also responsible for strategic planning at the German Marshall Fund of the United States.[5]
Asmus authored Opening NATO's Door: How the Alliance Remade Itself for a New Era (Columbia, 2002), about the push to open NATO to Eastern European countries, and A Little War that Shook the World (Palgrave Macmillan, January 2010), about the conflict between Russia and Georgia in 2008. Being one of the most persistent advocates for the integration of Georgia into the European Union and NATO, Asmus viewed the conflict in terms of a larger Russia–West relations and argued that it was Georgian independence, and its Westward orientation, which angered Russia and set the groundwork for war.[2]
Asmus died of a long cancer-related illness in Brussels on April 30, 2011. The U.S. Department of State,[3] governments of the Baltic states [6] and Georgia[7] expressed their condolences over the death of Asmus.

 

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Saif al-Arab al-Gaddafi, Libyan son of leader Muammar Gaddafi, died from a NATO airstrike he was , 29.

Saif al-Arab al-Gaddafi  was the sixth son of Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi. On 30 April 2011, the Libyan government reported that Saif and three of his young nieces and nephews were killed by a NATO airstrike on his house during the Libyan civil war. During the beginning of the uprising, Saif was put in charge of a military division by his father in order to put down protesters in Benghazi.[4] Saif was viewed as the most low-profile of Gaddafi's eight children.


(1982 – 30 April 2011)

Early life

Saif al-Arab al-Gaddafi was born in 1982 in the Libyan capital Tripoli. His father was Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi,[5] and his mother was Safia Farkash, Gaddafi's second wife.[6] Saif was wounded in the U.S. bombing attack of 1986, when he was four years old.[7]

Life in Munich

In 2006 Saif al-Arab enrolled as a student at the Technical University of Munich in Germany.[8] Later that year while living as a student in Munich Saif al-Arab became involved in a fight with a nightclub bouncer, after his girlfriend was thrown out of a Munich nightclub.[9] In 2008, Saif al-Arab was still studying in Munich. Excessive noise from the exhaust of his Ferrari F430 led to questions from the German police[1] and his car being impounded.[10] Also that year Saif al-Arab was suspected of attempting to smuggle an assault rifle, a revolver and munitions from Munich to Paris in a car with diplomatic number plates. However, the case was later dropped as the alleged weapons were never found and the German public prosecutor decided that there was insufficient evidence to proceed with a prosecution.[8] In addition to his studies, Al Jazeera reported Saif al-Arab engaged in unspecified business activities and spent much of his time partying while in Munich.[11]

Actions during the Libyan civil war

On 26 February 2011, the United Nations Security Council issued Resolution 1970 which imposed a travel ban on Saif al-Arab but stopped short of imposing an asset freeze as it did with many other members of the Gaddafi family.[5] An Interpol notice (orange notice) was then issued against him.[12]
During the Libyan civil war, Saif al-Arab was sent by his father to the eastern part of Libya to put down the protests. Combat troops and military equipment were placed at his disposal. It was rumoured that he later defected to the rebel side along with the troops under his command, though this was not confirmed.[4][13][14]

Death

On 30 April 2011, a Libyan government spokesman, Moussa Ibrahim, announced an air strike on Saif al-Arab's house had killed Saif al-Arab, along with three of Muamar Gaddafi's grandchildren. Moussa Ibrahim refuses to release the names of the grandchildren killed for "privacy reasons". The government also claimed Muammar Gaddafi was present in the house during the attack, but "escaped".[3] Saif has been viewed as the most low-profile of Muammar's sons.[15] The next day Libyan state TV showed footage of two bodies in a hospital fully covered and veiled, and thus unidentifiable, but claimed that one of them was Saif al-Arab Gaddafi's corpse.[16]
NATO said it struck a command and control center, not a residential structure and that it was not targeting individuals.[16] The British foreign ministry says it is unable to verify if Saif al-Arab or his relatives were killed.[17]
Members of the opposition centered in Benghazi have speculated that the Libyan government's claim of Saif al-Arab's death was a tactic to gain sympathy.[16] Abdul Hafez Goga, spokesperson for the Transitional National Council, said he thinks it could all be fabrication: "Back in 1986, Gaddafi once claimed that Ronald Reagan, then US president, had launched a strike on his compound in Tripoli and killed his daughter. Many journalists since then investigated and found out that the actual child that had died had nothing to do with Gaddafi, that he sort of adopted her posthumously."[3]
NATO claimed that it has no evidence of Saif's death and could neither confirm nor deny Libyan claims. They further said what the Libyan government has called a "residence" actually held an underground bunker which is used as a command and control center and that was the target.[18]
French surgeon Gerrard Le Clouerec, who does not work for the Libyan government, was asked to independently identify the bodies of Saif al-Arab, and two children. Clouerec claims he was able to confirm their deaths, as the corpse he saw in person was a direct match with that from pictures of Saif al-Arab.[citation needed] He claimed to have personally seen the corpses of the children, and the blast injured their bodies enough to be unidentifiable.[19][not in citation given] The highest-ranking Roman Catholic official in Tripoli, Apostolic Vicar Giovanni Innocenzo Martinelli, also confirmed the death of Saif al-Arab; his body was reported to be shown to the leaders of churches in Libya.[20]
On May 25, Silvio Berlusconi, the Italian prime minister, dismissed claims of Saif al-Arab's death as propaganda. He said that according to intelligence services, Saif al-Arab was not dead but was living in another unspecified country.[21]

Funeral

About 2,000 of Col. Moammar Gadhafi's supporters turned out for the funeral of the Libyan leader's son Saif al-Arab, his second youngest, in Tripoli Monday as the regime intensified its attack on the besieged city of Misrata. The elder Gadhafi himself did not attend the funeral, however, two of his other sons, Saif al-Islam, who was seen as his father's intended successor, and Hannibal were both observed in the crowd.
Saif's alleged body, covered in a cloth of pro-Gaddafi green, was brought to the Al-Hani Cemetery in a black ambulance.
Three of Gadhafi's grandchildren, identified by the authorities as being a child each of Hannibal, Mohammed and their sister Aisha, were also buried.

 

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Richard Holmes, British military historian died he was , 65.

Brigadier Edward Richard Holmes, CBE, TD, JP , known as Richard Holmes, was a British soldier and noted military historian, particularly well-known through his many television appearances died he was , 65.. He had been the Professor of Military and Security Studies at Cranfield University since 1995 and co-director of Cranfield's Security and Resilience Group since 1989.

(29 March 1946 – 30 April 2011)

Background and career

Holmes was educated at Forest School, Snaresbrook and Emmanuel College, Cambridge, as well as Northern Illinois University and the University of Reading. In 1964, he enlisted in the Territorial Army, the part-time volunteer reserve of the British Army.[2][3] Two years later he gained his commission,[4][5] eventually rising to the rank of Brigadier. He spent most of his Territorial Army career with the 5th (Volunteer) Battalion, The Queen's Regiment, a NATO-centred infantry battalion.
Between 1969 and 1985, he was a lecturer at the Department of War Studies at the Royal Military Academy Sandhurst, becoming Deputy Head of the Department in 1984.[6] He was promoted acting Captain in 1972,[7] substantive Captain in 1973,[8] acting Major in 1978,[9] awarded the Efficiency Decoration (TD) in 1979,[10] promoted to substantive Major in 1980.[11] In 1983 he transferred to and took command of the 2nd Battalion, The Wessex Regiment.[12] He was promoted to Lieutenant-Colonel when he chose to give up full-time service in 1986.[13] In the 1988 Queen's Birthday Honours, he was appointed Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE) (Military Division).[14] He was promoted Colonel on 29 January 1989.[15]
In June 1991 he was appointed Aide-de-Camp to the Queen, holding the post until February 1997.[16][17] In January 1994 he was appointed Honorary Colonel of the Southampton University Officer Training Corps,[18] and in that February, he was appointed Brigadier TA at Headquarters Land Command.[19] In 1995, he became Professor of Military and Security Studies at Cranfield.[6]
From 1997 until his retirement in 2000, Holmes was Director Reserve Forces and Cadets, as well as having the distinguished honour of being Britain's senior serving reservist.[20] In the 1998 New Year Honours he was promoted to Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE) (Military Division).[21] From September 1999 to 1 February 2007 he was Colonel of the Regiment of the Princess of Wales's Royal Regiment (successor to The Queen's and Royal Hampshire Regiments).[22] On 19 September 2000 he was awarded the Volunteer Reserves Service Medal.[23]

 Academic

In 1989, he became Co-Director of Cranfield University's Security Studies Institute at the Royal Military College of Science, Shrivenham. He became Professor of Military and Security Studies there in 1995, retiring from both positions—although retaining some part-time responsibilities, in 2009.[24]

Public service

Holmes was also president of the British Commission for Military History and the Battlefields Trust,[1] patron of the Guild of Battlefield Guides,[1] chairman of Project Hougoumont, member of the Board of Trustees of the Royal Armouries, and a vice president of the UK National Defence Association. He has received the Order of the Dannebrog and held honorary doctorates from the universities of Leicester and Kent.[25] Holmes lived in Hampshire with his wife and two daughters. In his spare time he sat as a Justice of the Peace for North-East Hampshire.

Publications and television work

Holmes wrote over a dozen books, including Firing Line and Redcoat, and was also editor in chief of the Oxford University Press' Companion to Military History. His television works included documentary series on the American Revolution such as Rebels and Redcoats in 2003 and Battlefields, a series concentrating on the bloody battles of World War II.[26][27] His War Walks television series has been regularly repeated on British terrestrial and digital television channels, including BBC Two and UKTV History. One of his most noted documentary series was Wellington: The Iron Duke,[28] in which he chronicled the Duke of Wellington's life, travelling to India, to Waterloo and numerous other locations. In the BBC poll to find the 100 Greatest Britons in 2002, he presented the programme on Oliver Cromwell.
He used a similar format in his series, In the Footsteps of Churchill, a documentary on Winston Churchill. In this, he travelled across the world, including South Africa, Sudan, Egypt and various locations in the United Kingdom and Europe. He also wrote a book to accompany the series. Both the book and the television series have received much critical acclaim.[citation needed] With John Keegan Holmes also developed the BBC documentary Soldiers, A History of Men in Battle.

Death

Holmes had been suffering from a form of non-Hodgkins lymphoma but eventually died of pneumonia.[29] He died on 30 April 2011, aged 65.[1]

Bibliography

 

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Dorjee Khandu, Indian Chief Minister of Arunachal Pradesh (since 2007), died from a helicopter crash he was , 56.

 Dorjee Khandu  was an Indian politician belonging to the Indian National Congress. He was the sixth Chief Minister of Arunachal Pradesh. He was reelected in 2009 general elections for the second term as the chief minister. Khandu died in a helicopter crash near Sela Pass on 30 April 2011.[2]

(19 March 1955 – 30 April 2011)

Early life

Dorjee Khandu was born in Gyangkhar village in Tawang district, North East Frontier Agency, India to Leki Dorjee. He belongs to the Monpa tribe.[3] He was a secondary school dropout;[1]

Career

Dorjee Khandu was in the Indian Army Intelligence Corps and worked there for more than seven years. He received a gold medal for the meritorious intelligence services rendered during Bangladesh War.[1] Later, he was engaged in social activities for village people of Tawang District and looked after their welfare up till 1980. In 1980, he was selected uncontested as the First ASM and worked in same capacity till 1983.
  • 1982: Chairman, Culture and Co-operative Societies in those years. Due to enthusiastic efforts, cultural and co-operative societies established in Tawang and lead the cultural troupe representing Arunachal Pradesh in Delhi for ASIAD in 1982 and won silver medal for good performance.
  • 1983–87: Elected uncontested as District Vice President, West Kameng District Zilla Parishad 1983–87.
  • 1987–1990: Engaged in intensive social works and brought water supply, electricity, communication, schools, religious institutions etc. to far flung villagers from 1987 to 1990.

Political career

In March 1990, he was elected uncontested to the First Legislative Assembly of the State of Arunachal Pradesh from Thingbu-Mukto constituency. In March 1995, he was re-elected to Second Legislative Assembly of the State of Arunachal Pradesh from the same constituency. He became the Minister of State for Cooperation from 21 March 1995.
  • On 21 September 1996, he became the Cabinet Minister for Animal Husbandry & Veterinary, Dairy Development.
  • In 1998, he was the Minister of Power from 1998–2006.
  • In October 1999, he was elected to third Legislative Assembly of the State of Arunachal Pradesh. He was the Minister for Mines, Relief & Rehabilitation from 15 October 2002 to 27 July 2003.
  • On 28 July 2003, he became the Minister for Relief & Rehabilitation and Disaster Management.
  • In 2004, he was re-elected unopposed from Mukto constituency in the Arunachal Pradesh Legislative Assembly elections and became the minister for Power, NCER, and relief and rehabilitation.[4]

Chief Minister of Arunachal Pradesh

On 9 April 2007, he became the Chief Minister of the state, replacing Gegong Apang.[5] In 2009, he was again elected unopposed from the same constituency and sworn in as the Chief Minister of the state on 25 October 2009.[6]

Disappearance and death

On 30 April 2011, the helicopter carrying Khandu and four other people on a trip from Tawang to Itanagar disappeared.[7] On 2 May, the aerial search for Khandu was halted due to inclement weather, necessitating a move to ground search by the Indian Army, police, SSB and the Indo-Tibetan Border Police.[8] Personnel were searching a heavily forested 66 square kilometer section of West Kameng district, where satellites detected possible plane remnants. Witnesses said they heard a large explosion on the morning of 30 April.[9]
On 4 May 2011, at around 11 am, remnants of the crashed helicopter were found by a group of tribals near Tawang district. Although the crash has been blamed on the poor condition of the plane, a single engine four seater Eurocopter B8 provided by Pawan Hans, the helicopter was only put into service in 2010.[10]
P Chidambaram, Home Minister of India confirmed the news of the death of Dorjee Khandu on the morning of 5 May.[11] Earlier in a briefing Minister of External Affairs, SM Krishna said he is deeply pained by the demise of Dorjee Khandu.[12]
The last rites of the Chief Minister were performed in his native village, Gyangkhar, in Tawang district as per Monpa Buddhist traditions.[13]

Personal life

Dorjee Khandu had four wives and has five sons and two daughters.[14]

 

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Mike Krsnich, American baseball player (Milwaukee Braves) died he was , 79.

Michael Krsnich  was an American left fielder in Major League Baseball who played for the Milwaukee Braves during the 1960 and 1962 seasons. Listed at 6' 1", 190 lb, he batted and threw right handed died he was , 79.. His older brother, Rocky Krsnich, also played in the majors from 1949 to 1953.


(September 24, 1931 – April 30, 2011)

Born in West Allis, Wisconsin, Mike Krsnich was one of many baseball players whose career was interrupted during Korean War conflict.[2]
Krsnich played briefly for the Braves in part of two seasons. He had previously signed by the Philadelphia Phillies before landing in Milwaukee, playing mostly at outfield and as pinch-hitter in just 21 games.[1]
Following his major league stint, Krsnich joined the Taiyo Whales of the Japanese Central League from 1963 to 1965. He slugged a .500 average in his first two years in Japan, belting 36 home runs in 1964 to finish second to the legendary Sadaharu Oh, who hit 55 homers. [3]
Krsnich opened 1966 with the Osaka Kintetsu Buffaloes and joined the Hanshin Tigers for the last half of the 1967 season. In his five years in Japan, he hit a .265 average with a .326 on-base percentage and a slugging of .475. He also played 13 Minor league seasons between 1950 and 1969, batting .288 with 127 home runs in 1237 games.[3]
Krsnich died in Mesquite, Nevada, at the age of 79.[4]

 

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Harry S. Morgan, German pornographic actor, producer and director. (German) died his body was found on this date he was , 65.

Harry S. Morgan (born as 'Michael Schey) was a German actor, producer and director of pornographic movies. He is famous for directing classic-style movies died his body was found on this date he was , 65..

(on August 29, 1945 in Essen, Germany, found dead April 30, 2011)

Life

Morgan studied Photography at the Folkwang University of the Arts in Essen. 1991 he directed the Thriller Pommes Rot-Weiß with Michael Lesch.
His first actions as a director and producer in the porn industry is traced back to 1988. Morgan's trademarks are extreme sexual practices such as double penetration, fisting, and urination. He is well known as the journalist who interviews the actors before and after the scenes.
Morgan worked for the company Videorama and become especially known for films with Gina Wild and Vivian Schmitt. He lived in Düsseldorf.

Awards

 

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Dickey Betts died he was 80

Early Career Forrest Richard Betts was also known as Dickey Betts Betts collaborated with  Duane Allman , introducing melodic twin guitar ha...