John L. McKnight, a professor of speech and urban affairs at Northwestern University, was an expert on community organizing and a keen researcher whose work focused on helping neighborhoods ...

John Wayne Gacy was executed in prison 31 years ago on May 10, 1994 Jordana Comiter is an Associate Editor on the Evergreen team at PEOPLE. She has been working at PEOPLE since 2024. Her work has ...

Those two men are John Wayne and Clint Eastwood. Throughout their heralded careers, the two men never worked together, even though they once had the opportunity to do so. Instead, politics ...

As John Wayne usually played heroes, he needed an excellent villain to fight, and the best appeared in his movie The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance. John Wayne movies are almost a genre of their own ...

But one of America’s most enduring icons of toughness—John Wayne—remained stateside. Over the years, Wayne’s decision not to fight became a source of controversy. Though he was seen on ...

In September 1966, John Wayne was preparing to film a Western heist movie, but he needed the perfect co-star to portray his character's former adversary, Lomax. Burt Lancaster declined the role in ...

In 1976, 69-year-old John Wayne offered his farewell to Hollywood and the Western genre withThe Shootist, which tells the tale of an aging gunfighter dying of cancer in Nevada at the turn of the ...

The acting collaboration between John Wayne and Vera Miles spanned five movies released between 1955 and 1968, but two ...

John Wayne and his career are widely recognized as emblems of American Western cinema. His commanding presence on screen significantly shaped the genre for future generations. While renowned works ...

This is what the biggest star of this period, John Wayne, did when he launched his Batjac Productions in 1952 with the godawful "Big Jim McLain," a political thriller that valorized House Un ...

Released in 1971, George Sherman’s WesternBig Jake was the last time John Wayne and Maureen O’Hara shared the screen. However, unlike the classic Wayne Westerns of its time, and before ...

John Wayne Gacy, a.k.a. the Killer Clown, died 31 years ago today. On May 10, 1994, the serial killer — who was convicted of murdering at least 33 teen boys and young men throughout the 1970s ...