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- Billie Gibson was born on 21 December 1928 in Dike, Hopkins County, Texas, USA. She was an actress, known for The Shining (1980). She died on 8 July 2012 in Dallas, Dallas County, Texas, USA.
- William T. Anderson--aka "Bloody Bill Anderson"--was born in Hopkins County, KY, in 1840. His family moved to Kansas when he was a youngster. As a young man he made money by rustling horses and selling them to unsuspecting buyers. His father, a diehard Southerner, got into an argument with a judge who was a Union loyalist, resulting in his father being shot dead. Bill, fearing for his own life, took off for Missouri, where he made a living robbing travelers. Union soldiers pursued him, and he killed several of them. Shortly after the Civil War broke out Anderson joined up with a gang of Confederate guerrillas led by former schoolteacher William Quantrill. Anderson developed a useful skill as a guerrilla--setting up ambushes of Union soldiers and their civilian allies, which earned him the admiration and trust of the gang's leaders. It wasn't long before the authorities found out who Anderson was, and they arrested and imprisoned his sisters, one of whom died in custody, leading Anderson to vow bloody revenge. He played a vital part in what became known as the "Lawrence Massacre"--on August 21, 1863, Quantrill's gang attacked the small Kansas town of Lawrence, which had a reputation of being a center of abolitionists and pro-Union militias, known as Jayhawkers, and a particularly violent group of anti-slavery vigilantes known as Redlegs, who themselves were responsible for the killings of many pro-Confederate and/or pro-slavery civilians. Approximately 450 guerrillas attacked Lawrence shortly after 5:00 am, taking over a hotel for their headquarters and fanning out across town with lists of men to be killed. Many of those killed were unarmed, including approximately 20 young men who had just been recruited into the Union army, although they had not yet been sworn in. Altogether approximately 150 men and boys--some as young as 12--were executed, some of them shot or knifed, and others tied up and thrown into burning buildings. The guerrillas set fire to as many buildings as they could, and approximately one-quarter of the town eventually burned to the ground. Anderson himself was implicated in some of the most brutal murders committed during the incident, and it was estimated that he personally killed more than a dozen unarmed prisoners.
After the raid Quantrill and his band went to Texas to spend the winter, and it was here that Quantrill and Anderson had a falling out. Anderson accused Quantrill of the murder of one of the guerrillas, resulting in Quantrill's arrest by Confederate authorities. Anderson then formed his own band of guerrillas and returned to Kansas, becoming one of the most feared of the guerrilla bands infesting the area. On Sept. 27, 1864, Anderson led his band in an attack on the Kansas town of Centralia. He captured 24 Union soldiers, and after assuring them of good treatment, proceeded to execute them all. He then laid a trap for Union forces coming to relieve the town, which resulted in more than 100 militiamen being killed.
Approximately a month after that incident, Anderson was himself the victim of an ambush by Union troops. Caught by surprise, many of his men were killed, wounded or fled. Anderson was recognized by a pursuing Union officer, who fired several shots at him. He was hit behind the ear with at least one bullet and, apparently, died instantly. - Camera and Electrical Department
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Born in the tiny town of St. Charles, Kentucky (population 400) Lewis fell in love with movies and how they were made at a very early age. Around 1982, his parents, David and Janie Chaney, purchased a video camera and Lewis began his first attempts at making movies and editing them with two VHS machines slaved together.
After earning two Associate Degrees, Lewis moved into the world of television news as a videographer in 1985, first at WFIE (briefly) then onto WEHT, both in Evansville, Indiana. It was at WEHT he met his mentor, Leonard Judd, who would become a good friend and encouraged Lewis to continue his work producing shorts and music videos. Along with friends, Dave Snyder (now a Hollywood Makeup Artist), and Theresa Chadwick, Lewis spent weekends turning out short films like "Puppy Love: An Old Fashioned Ghost Story"; "Man of Her Dreams"; "Grain of Truth"; "The Affair"; and music videos including "Cold Winds Blow". These were broadcast across the state of Kentucky as part of Kentucky Educational Television's film and video festival.
Winning multiple awards from the Associated Press and Indiana News Photographer Association, he has also shot and edited two Emmy Award winning and one Emmy nominated stories for WEHT.
Moving to Nashville, Tennessee in 1998, Lewis worked for Jim Owens and Associates which produced three shows for The Nashville Network, those being "Crook and Chase"; "This Week in Country Music"; and "Today's Country". This afforded him the opportunity to work with hundreds of celebrities, as videographer on countless stories, including an eight day stint with Garth Brooks on the last leg of his World Tour in Belfast, Northern Ireland.
It also allowed him the chance to be on the sets of TV shows (such as Diagnosis Murder and JAG) and many music videos. He also had the chance to spend a few days assisting the makeup department on "Babylon 5". All of these were like a film school as Lewis studied how things were being done and had the chance to learn from some very talented people, all of it feeding his desire to make more films.
"victimEYES" was his first feature length film, and was chosen as an official selection and winning Best Story, at the World Independent Film Expo in 2010. He has since worked on the fan film "Batman Metaphors" with fellow film director and business partner Neil Kellen along with other films, including Remaindered, the directorial debut short film of Lee Goldberg of "Monk" fame. Lewis continues to write features and will produce/ direct more in the future as well as be a part of as many films as he can in his mid-western hometown area.
He lives in Henderson, Kentucky with his wife Karessa and two sons, Spencer and Evan.- James L. Allen was born on 2 February 1942 in Hopkins County, Texas, USA. He was an actor, known for Nash Bridges (1996). He died on 19 September 2009 in San Francisco, California, USA.