Ford's maternal grandparents, Harry Nidelman and Anna Lifschutz, were Jewish immigrants from Minsk, Belarus ( at that time a part of the Russian Empire ).

* 1865 – U. S. President Abraham Lincoln is assassinated in Ford's Theatre by John Wilkes Booth.

" They're the kind of twisted, instantly memorable characters one meets in John Ford's westerns, Jack Kerouac's road novels, but, most of all, in the blues and country songs of the 1920s, ' 30s and ' 40s.

Probably the first novel to depict cyberspace and combat within it was John M. Ford's Web of Angels ( 1980 ).

The term " cyberspace " was first used by the cyberpunk science fiction author William Gibson, though the concept was described somewhat earlier, for example in the Vernor Vinge short story " True Names ," and even earlier in John M. Ford's novel, Web of Angels.

In order to bring the car more " in house " and lessening partnership with English firms, Ford Advanced Vehicles was sold to John Wyer and the new car was designed by Ford's studios and produced by Ford's subsidiary Kar Kraft under Ed Hull.

) Tracy and Bogart appeared in their only film together in John Ford's early sound film Up the River ( 1930 ), with both playing inmates.

* John T. Ford ( 1829 – 1894 ), American theatre owner and manager ; 1865 assassination of President Lincoln occurred in one of his venues, Ford's Theatre in Washington, D. C.

John Wilkes Booth ( May 10, 1838 – April 26, 1865 ) was a famous American stage actor who assassinated President Abraham Lincoln at Ford's Theatre, in Washington, D. C., on April 14, 1865.

When family friend John T. Ford opened 1, 500-seat Ford's Theatre on November 9 in Washington, D. C., Booth was one of the first leading men to appear there, playing in Charles Selby's The Marble Heart.

Klingon is sometimes referred to as Klingonese ( most notably in the Star Trek: The Original Series episode " The Trouble With Tribbles ", where it was actually pronounced by a Klingon character as " Klingonee " ) but, among the Klingon-speaking community, this is often understood to refer to another Klingon language called Klingonaase that was introduced in John M. Ford's 1988 Star Trek novel The Final Reflection, and appears in other Star Trek novels by Ford.

In the 1960s, Marvin was given prominent supporting roles in such films as The Comancheros ( 1961 ), John Ford's The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance ( 1962 ), and Donovan's Reef ( 1963 ), all starring John Wayne, with Marvin's roles getting larger with each film.

He received his first two Oscar nominations for John Ford's 1934 film The Lost Patrol, and the same year for The Gay Divorcee.

Ford owed money to John M. Tibeats, a carpenter who had been working for him on the mills, as well as at a weaving-house and corn mill on Ford's Bayou Boeuf plantation.

On April 14, only five days after Grant's victory at Appomattox, President Lincoln was fatally shot by John Wilkes Booth at Ford's Theater, and died the next morning.

While not exactly accurate, John Ford's 1924 silent movie The Iron Horse captures the fervent nationalism that drove public support for the project.

Dodge Brothers enjoyed much success in this field, but the brothers ' growing wish to build complete vehicles was exemplified by John Dodge's 1913 exclamation that he was " tired of being carried around in Henry Ford's vest pocket.

Nevertheless the film received critical acclaim in France, where it was compared to John Ford's The Grapes of Wrath, and it has since acquired the very high rating of 93 percent on Rotten Tomatoes.

Unforgiven was a major commercial and critical success ; Jack Methews of the Los Angeles Times described it as " the finest classical western to come along since perhaps John Ford's 1956 The Searchers.

Lean reportedly watched John Ford's film The Searchers ( 1956 ) to help him develop ideas as to how to shoot the film.

Original poster for John Ford's The Last Hurrah ( 1958 film ) | The Last Hurrah ( 1958 )

Fonda played Wyatt Earp in John Ford's My Darling Clementine ( 1946 ) and appeared in the film Fort Apache ( 1948 ) as a rigid Army colonel, along with John Wayne and Shirley Temple in her first adult role.

Barry Fitzgerald and Arthur Shields were also brothers in real life, and Francis Ford was John Ford's elder brother.

Cong was the filming location for John Ford's 1952 Oscar-winning film, The Quiet Man, featuring John Wayne, Maureen O ' Hara and Barry Fitzgerald.

Shields portrayed the Reverend Playfair in Ford's The Quiet Man, opposite John Wayne, Maureen O ' Hara and his brother, Barry Fitzgerald.

He played Dr. Laughlin in She Wore a Yellow Ribbon with Wayne and Joanne Dru, and appeared yet again with Wayne and Barry Fitzgerald in Ford's Long Voyage Home.

The poem is quoted by Sue Bridehead in Thomas Hardy's 1895 novel, Jude the Obscure and also by Edward Ashburnham in Ford Madox Ford's The Good Soldier.

Mercury is a Ford Motor Company division, and Mercury's 427 was exactly the same engine as Ford's with different logos.

Three production prototype cars were shown in 2003 as part of Ford's centenary, and delivery of the production Ford GT began in the fall of 2004.

Henry Ford's siblings include Margaret Ford ( 1867 – 1938 ); Jane Ford ( c. 1868 – 1945 ); William Ford ( 1871 – 1917 ) and Robert Ford ( 1873 – 1934 ).

For instance, Mazda's Familia platform was used for Ford models like the Laser and Escort, while the Capella architecture found its way into Ford's Telstar sedan and Probe sports models.

* Ford Modular engine, Ford's line of OHC V8 and V10 motors

, the United States domestic box office grosses of Ford's films total over US $ 3. 5 billion, with worldwide grosses surpassing $ 6 billion, making Ford the third highest grossing U. S. domestic box-office star.

She appeared in two Harrison Ford films, Patriot Games ( 1992 ) and its sequel, Clear and Present Danger ( 1994 ), where she played Sally Ryan, the daughter of Ford's character Jack Ryan.

The original version was also featured in the 1978 film Superman, heard playing on a car radio just prior to Glenn Ford's final scene in the film ; Ford, as noted earlier, had starred in Blackboard Jungle.

Carter engaged Ford in foreign policy debates by contrasting the Trilateral vision with Ford's détente.

Critic Bosley Crowther, film critic for The New York Times, liked the screenplay, the message of the film, and John Ford's direction, and wrote, " John Ford has truly fashioned a modern Odyssey — a stark and tough-fibered motion picture which tells with lean economy the never-ending story of man's wanderings over the waters of the world in search of peace for his soul ... it is harsh and relentless and only briefly compassionate in its revelation of man's pathetic shortcomings.

Mass production was popularized in the 1910s and 1920s by Henry Ford's Ford Motor Company, which introduced electric motors to the then-well-known technique of chain or sequential production.

Mantle and former teammate Whitey Ford were elected to the Baseball Hall of Fame together in 1974, Mantle's first year of eligibility, Ford's second.

Ford's right-hand man Ernest Breech was asked what he thought, and told Henry II, " What we're being offered here, Mr. Ford, isn't worth a damn!

However, the designs, based on the HQ and updated HJ, HX and HZ models from the 1970s were less competitive than similar models in Ford's lineup.

The car was the M2B designed by Robin Herd but the programme was hampered by a poor choice of engines: a 3. 0 litre version of Ford's Indianapolis 500 engine and a Serenissima V8 were used, the latter scoring the team's first point in Britain, but both were underpowered and unreliable.

They were supervised by Ford's overseer Chapin, who saved Northup from a lynching after he fought with Tibeats.

Four systems were developed, Rohr's ROMAG, LTV's AirTrans, Ford's APT and Otis Elevator's hovercraft design.

In the age of mass production, this caused shipping and trade problems in that shipping systems were unable to transport huge volumes of finished automobiles ( in Henry Ford's case ) without causing damage, and also government policies imposed trade barriers on finished units.

In 1981, Ford's sales were falling.

After President Abraham Lincoln's assassination at John T. Ford's Theatre, the 54th Congress passed legislation compensating those who were injured in the theater.

Ford's political advisors were clamouring for a change.

Many ( if not most ) of the interior, chassis, suspension, and drivetrain components were derived from those used on Ford's Falcon and Fairlane.

Schwartz said that the car was no more fire-prone than other cars of the time, that its fatality rates were lower than comparably sized imported automobiles, and that the supposed " smoking gun " document that plaintiffs said demonstrated Ford's callousness in designing the Pinto was actually a document based on National Highway Traffic Safety Administration regulations about the value of a human life — rather than a document containing an assessment of Ford's potential tort liability.

In his video for " Who's Cheatin ' Who " he was behind the wheel of a " Big Foot " Ford F-150 pickup truck, and Ford's five NASCAR vehicles ( at the time ) were prominently featured.

Nonetheless, Ford's work during the early 1990s was primarily behind the scenes ; his contributions to Gucci were overshadowed by those of Mello, who was the company's public face.

In 1993, Chrysler launched the Jeep Grand Cherokee as a competitor for Ford's Explorer, and as a result, many buyers who went into the Jeep-Eagle showrooms were either interested in buying the Grand Cherokee, or got distracted from the Eagle cars by the more popular Jeep vehicles.

While Ford's articles were denounced by the Anti-Defamation League ( ADL ), the articles explicitly condemned pogroms and violence against Gays ( Volume 4, Chapter 80 ), but blamed the Jews for provoking incidents of mass violence.

During the trial, the editor of Ford's " Own Page ," William Cameron, testified that Ford had nothing to do with the editorials even though they were under his byline.

Though Frazee was well respected in Boston, Henry Ford's Dearborn Independent ran a series of articles purporting to expose how Jews were destroying America, and among these were articles lambasting Frazee, saying that with his purchase of the Red Sox " another club was placed under the smothering influences of the ' chosen race.

It was the best-specified Cortina produced to date and 30, 000 were sold, which also made it Ford's best-selling special edition model.