Harrison Smith

G. Robert Blakey has died at 90. He drafted RICO, led a government investigation into the Kennedy assassination and later criticized the CIA.

For years, Edith Eger kept quiet, refusing to speak about the cattle cars or the death camps or the Nazi guard who broke her back.

Frank Hayden, who has died at 96, saw sports as a gateway to opportunity for people with special needs.

During a long career based out of D.C., he championed the Great American Songbook, led the house band at Blues Alley and delighted audiences at Wolf Trap.

John Eaton, a jazz pianist who helped draw renewed attention to the Great American Songbook, championing the work of Hoagy Carmichael, George

Diane Carlson Evans, a former Army nurse, spent years championing military women. She died of a rare cancer linked to Agent Orange, the toxic herbicide.

“It was a simple idea,” Diane Carlson Evans recalled, marveling at how a project that should have taken no more than two years, in her estimation, required nearly a decade

Carlo Petrini, who has died at 76, founded the organization Slow Food while championing access to “good, clean and fair food.”

At his family’s Chicago funeral home, Spencer Leak Jr. handled Jesse Jackson’s services and helped families who were unable to pay. He died in May at 56.

Spencer Leak Jr. got the text message around 1:30 a.m. at his home in Chicago's south suburbs. The Rev.