Silas Trim Bissell, 60, a member of the militant 1960s anti-war group the Weathermen who was convicted of trying to bomb a University of Washington ROTC building, died Saturday in Eugene, Ore., of brain cancer.
Mr. Bissell was arrested in Eugene in January 1987, nearly 17 years after the failed 1970 bombing attempt in Seattle. He received a two-year sentence on charges of conspiracy to damage federal property and possession of a destructive device, and was released after 18 months.
Mr. Bissell was working as a physical therapist and artist under the name Terrence Peter Jackson when an acquaintance informed police of his real identity.
Mr. Bissell's father, Wadsworth Bissell, was the son of the founder of the Bissell carpet sweeper company but was disinherited for refusing to join the family business.
Jack C. Montgomery, 84, whose actions during the Battle of Anzio earned him the Medal of Honor, died Tuesday in Muskogee, Okla.
Mr. Montgomery was presented the nation's highest honor for military valor by President Franklin D. Roosevelt for heroics in northern Italy during World War II.
On Feb. 22, 1944, Mr. Montgomery left his platoon behind the safety of a stone wall and stormed a row of German machine-gun nests.
Exposing himself to intense enemy fire, Mr. Montgomery returned several times to get more ammunition from his platoon. He was credited with killing 11 Germany soldiers and capturing 32 others - essentially by himself.
After the war, Mr. Montgomery turned aside business opportunities in favor of serving fellow veterans in a job at the Veterans Administration office in Muskogee.
Pat White, 68, the wife of country music musician Buck White who gave up performing to raise their family, died of a heart attack Sunday in Hendersonville, Tenn.
Mrs. White sang with her husband in the Down Home Folks group in Arkansas in the 1960s. The family later moved to Nashville and she retired from performing in 1973 to look after the couple's two youngest daughters, Rosie and Melissa.
Buck White continued his career with The Whites, with older daughters Sharon and Cheryl.
The Whites have been cast members of the Grand Ole Opry since 1984 and got a career boost last year when they appeared on the best-selling soundtrack to the movie O Brother, Where Art Thou? singing "Keep on the Sunny Side."
Robert Whitehead, 86, one of Broadway's most prolific producers of serious drama and the recipient of a special Tony Award this month for his nearly 60 years of work in the theater, died of cancer Saturday at his home in Pound Ridge, N.Y.
Among the plays he produced on Broadway were a 1947 revival of Medea starring Judith Anderson and John Gielgud; Carson McCullers' Member of the Wedding, with Julie Harris and Ethel Waters, in 1950; Bus Stop by William Inge in 1955; The Waltz of the Toreadors, with Ralph Richardson, in 1957; and A Man for All Seasons, with Paul Scofield in 1961.
Mr. Whitehead had a close relationship with Arthur Miller, presenting much of the playwright's later work on Broadway, including The Price (1968), The Creation of the World and Other Business (1972), a revival of Death of a Salesman starring Dustin Hoffman (1984) and Broken Glass (1994).
Among Mr. Whitehead's later productions was Terrence McNally's Master Class, which starred Mr. Whitehead's second wife, Zoe Caldwell, as opera diva Maria Callas. It won the Tony Award for Best Play in 1996.