Browsing a California bookstore on a Sunday afternoon in the 1970s, Cicely Tyson stumbled upon a recent release titled "The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman." She'd never heard of the author, Ernest ...

Two first-graders killed in the Newtown shootings were the first victims to be laid to rest at funeral services Monday. Both Jack Pinto and Noah Pozner were 6 years old. Family and friends remembered ...

Choosing a few words or a message for the dearly departed is a difficult decision. How do we say our final goodbyes? Poetry is one of the best mediums for capturing and expressing emotions and is very ...

In a used bookstore in Philadelphia, I paid eight dollars for a collection of dead people. Of course, bookstores generally do not deal in cadavers. But they do sell objects imbued with history: a ...

Fifty years ago,  former New York-based LIFE magazine photographer — and long time Houstonian – Bob Gomel covered the funeral of John F. Kennedy. He shares his memories of covering that historic ...

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... All these years later, John Malone still remembers the last words of Robert F. Kennedy’s last speech: “. . . and now it’s on to Chicago, and let’s win there!

All these years later, John Malone still remembers the last words of Robert F. Kennedy’s last speech: “. . . and now it’s on to Chicago, and let’s win there!” There was hope in that, momentum. John ...