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American actor and journalist. Born to famed swashbuckling movie hero Errol Flynn and actress Lili Damita, Sean Flynn was the object of contention between the divorced couple for his entire life. Raised primarily by his mother, he was alternately ignored and fought for by his father, who engaged in a years-long custody battle with Damita. Sean grew up in Palm Beach, Florida and attended Palm Beach Private School and prep school Lawrenceville. Summers he spent with his father in Jamaica or on the elder Flynn's yacht. He enrolled at Duke University, but soon thereafter accepted a contract to appear in a sequel to his father's hit film Captain Blood (1935), The Son of Captain Blood (1962). He made a few more films in Europe, in all of which he was extraordinarily handsome but not particularly skilled or at ease before the camera. He became bored with acting and then went to Africa in 1965. There he worked for a time as a game warden and hunter in Kenya. The Vietnam war was heating up, and in 1966 Flynn went to cover the war as a photographer-correspondent for Paris-Match. He was wounded in the knee in March. He left Vietnam long enough to appear in a final film, Singapore, Singapore (1967), and to cover the Arab-Israeli war of 1967. He then returned to Vietnam in 1968, where he sold photographs and news stories to most of the major news organizations and made plans for a documentary film on the war. His exploits and those of his colleagues made them somewhat legendary figures in military and journalism circles. In April, 1970, while covering the widening of combat to the border areas of Cambodia, Flynn and colleague Dana Stone disappeared. They were presumed captured by elements of the North Vietnamese, the Viet Cong, or the Khmer Rouge .. Although some reports indicated they may have survived as prisoners for as much as another two months, Flynn and Stone were never definitively heard from again after April 6, 1970, and were almost certainly executed by captors.- Sheppard was a young doctor working with his family at Bay View Hospital near Cleveland when his wife was brutally murdered on 4 July 1954. Suspicion centered on him immediately, and he was convicted of his wife's murder in December 1954, despite his claims of innocence, his cooperation with authorities, and the lack of any physical evidence linking him to the crime. Sheppard obtained a reversal of his conviction in the federal courts, and on his release in 1964, he immediately married his penpal and sweetheart. Two years later, in 1966, the U.S. Supreme Court affirmed the reversal of his conviction in a landmark case, and Sheppard was tried again. This time, without the media hysteria surrounding the first trial, Sheppard was acquitted. He was unable to overcome the effects of his ten-year imprisonment, however, and died a broken man.
- Betty Randall was born on 7 June 1905 in Derby, Derbyshire, England, UK. She was an actress, known for Homicide (1964), Division 4 (1969) and Consider Your Verdict (1961). She died on 6 April 1970 in Kew, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia.
- Actor
- Writer
El-Deif Ahmed was born on 12 December 1936 in Egypt. He was an actor and writer, known for Quarter a Dozen Evils (1970), El mushajibun (1965) and El Maganin El Talata (1970). He died on 6 April 1970 in Cairo, Egypt.- Paul Selver was born on 22 March 1888 in London, England, UK. Paul was a writer, known for BBC Sunday-Night Theatre (1950), Armchair Theatre (1956) and ITV Television Playhouse (1955). Paul died on 6 April 1970 in England, UK.
- Gwen Munro was born on 30 November 1913 in Hobart, Tasmania, Australia. She was an actress, known for Typhoon Treasure (1938), Wild Innocence (1936) and Let George Do It (1938). She was married to Dorr Chandler Ralph and Hubert Francis Greenway Middows. She died on 6 April 1970 in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, USA.
- Rex Harold was born on 2 November 1880 in Anerley, London, England, UK. He was an actor, known for A Smart Set (1919). He died on 6 April 1970 in Anerley, London, England, UK.
- Maurice Stokes was born on 17 June 1933 in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA. He died on 6 April 1970 in Cincinnati, Ohio, USA.