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Joseph Zimmerman 2004 Deaths

Joseph ZimmermanAge: 92 engineer who invented the first telephone answering machine, the Electronic Secretary. He sold the contraption to General Telephone and Electronics Inc. in 1957. Died…

Joseph Cullman 2004 Deaths

Joseph CullmanAge: 92 former CEO of Philip Morris (1957 to 1978) who transformed the company into one of the biggest in the U.S. He led the fight against the government's ban on cigarette…

Joseph Wilson, 2004 News

Joseph Wilson, former ambassador, was partially discredited in July with the release of the Senate Intelligence Committee report. Wilson visited Niger in February 2002 to investigate a claim…

Joseph Darby, 2004 News

U.S. reservist military police officer in Iraq, turned over to U.S. Army officials the infamous CD containing the appalling photographs of fellow soldiers abusing and humiliating Iraqi…

Joseph Barbera 2006 Deaths

Joseph BarberaAge: 95 with William Hanna, the founder of legendary cartoon studio Hanna-Barbera. In 1940, the two teamed up to create the award-winning series of Tom and Jerry shorts at MGM.…

Joseph Farwell Glidden Biography

Joseph Farwell Gliddeninventor of barbed wireBorn: 1/18/1813Birthplace: Charlestown, N.H. Glidden grew up on his father's farms in New Hampshire and (later) New York State. In 1837 he married…

O'Brien, Edward Joseph

O'Brien, Edward Joseph[1890-1941](2)Born in Boston, Mass., Dec. 10, 1890. Educated at Boston College and Harvard University. Author of "White Fountains", 1917; "The Forgotten Threshold",…

Joseph Rotblat 2005 Deaths

Joseph RotblatAge: 96 Polish-born physicist who began working on the Manhattan Project in 1944. He left the program after nine months as his misgivings about the atomic bomb intensified. He…

Joseph Moakley 2001 Deaths

Joseph MoakleyAge: 74 popular politician from Massachusetts who served for 15 terms in the U.S. House of Representatives. A quintessential Boston Irish Democrat, Moakley dedicated his career…

Joseph Ellis, 2001 News

historian and Pulitzer Prize–winning writer, admitted in June that he led his students at Mount Holyoke College to believe that he had served as a paratrooper in Vietnam, when in reality his…