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...When Victoria Fuller and her husband, Jonathan Baker, joined the cast of CBS? ?The Amazing Race? they never imagined she would come off as an abused wife and he as a bullying husband on national television. But footage of Baker aggressively yelling and pushing people around, including his wife, made him one of the most vilified characters on reality television - and turned Fuller into TV?s number 1 victim. ?People felt sorry for me, which made be angry,? she says. ?I?m a strong independent woman. ?Even so, Fuller concedes that she and Baker made the mistake of venting their...
Coretta Scott King, the widow of civil rights icon Martin Luther King Jr., died in her sleep early Tuesday morning at the age of 78. She had worked tirelessly after her husband's death in 1968 to carry on his legacy and only recently began to slow down her efforts. Having suffered a stroke in August 2005, King made a surprising appearance at a children's program in mid-January during events surrounding the annual commemoration of King's birthday. Passive and regal in a wheelchair, King did not speak but welcomed a line of children to her side...
...After her husband's slaying in 1968, King worked to establish the King Center for Nonviolent Social Change in Atlanta, which opened as it stands today in 1982, a complex that includes King's tomb, his boyhood home and the historical Ebenezer Baptist Church, part of which is a federal historic park project. The roots of the center started a year after her husband's assassination, begun in the basement of Dr. King's home...
...also successfully fought for a national holiday on King's birthday, which was established in 1985, and was observed this year on Jan. 16. A monument to her husband is also being pursued in Washington, D.C., on the national mall...
Before her husband was taken by a crocodile, amateur naturalist Glenda Jefferies very likely filmed his killer. From the banks of the Normanby River, on Australia's remote Cape York Peninsula, she and husband Barry frequently videotaped the large saltwater crocodiles that prowl the waterways of Lakefield National Park. Last August, on one of their regular expeditions, Glenda dropped a lens cap into the water. As she retrieved it, a large crocodile approached. Police believe that later that day, as the couple ventured out in a small canoe to fish in the river, the same reptile appeared again. Barry...