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Murder of Willie Brewster. Brewster was killed while driving on Highway 202. On the evening of July 13, 1965, Hubert Damon Strange shot Willie Brewster as Brewster drove past him on Highway 202 outside Anniston, Alabama; two days later, Brewster died in a hospital. In December of that year, Strange was convicted of second degree murder; this ...
Early life Ayers was born in Anniston, Alabama to Colonel Harry Mell Ayers and his wife. At that time Colonel Ayers was owner of the Anniston Star newspaper. Ayers attended Woodstock Elementary School, followed by The Wooster School in Danbury, Connecticut. He subsequently attended the University of Alabama, where he received his BA. Ayers served in the US Navy as an officer, [3] following ...
The Anniston Star is the daily newspaper serving Anniston, Alabama, and the surrounding six-county region. Average Sunday circulation in September 2004 was 26,747.
Thomas Warren Whisenhant (January 29, 1947 – May 27, 2010) [1] was an American serial killer who murdered at least four women between 1963 and 1976 in Mobile County, Alabama. After being arrested for the October 1976 murder of Cheryl Payton, Whisenhant confessed to killing three other women. He was sentenced to death in Alabama in September 1977, and was executed in May 2010 at Holman ...
The Anniston and Birmingham bus attacks, which occurred on May 14, 1961, in Anniston and Birmingham, both Alabama, were acts of mob violence targeted against civil rights activists protesting against racial segregation in the Southern United States. They were carried out by members of the Ku Klux Klan and the National States' Rights Party in ...
Anniston is a city and the county seat of Calhoun County in Alabama, United States, and is one of two urban centers/principal cities of and included in the Anniston-Oxford Metropolitan Statistical Area.
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The Samuel Noble Monument is a commemorative sculpture located at the parkway median of Quintard Avenue and 11th Street in the city of Anniston, Alabama, United States, and was erected in 1895 to honor the town's founder, Samuel Noble. [2] Noble immigrated with his family to the United States from England.