Franklin reportedly reached for a pistol and Cook shot him to death.

James was reportedly a good father to Franklin ; however, his recurring heart problems eventually turned him into an invalid.

Around June 1752, Franklin reportedly performed his famous kite experiment.

Franklin is reportedly working on an album, but however is still unsigned.

While Marshall enjoyed considerable success in working with Congress and President Franklin D. Roosevelt, he refused to lobby for the position.

Like his old friend Benjamin Franklin, Jenifer enjoyed the status of elder statesman at the Convention.

While the World War II Office of Strategic Services ( OSS ) was technically a military agency under the Joint Chiefs of Staff, in practice it was fairly autonomous of military control and enjoyed direct access to President Franklin D. Roosevelt.

He enjoyed an extensive international reputation, and was in correspondence with Benjamin Franklin for whom he made a set of magnets and a telescope around 1758.

In 1825, Sir John Franklin wrote that " The game of hockey played on the ice was the morning sport " while on Great Bear Lake during one of his Arctic expeditions.

As wild game ran scarce, the Crocketts then moved to Franklin County, Tennessee in 1813.

Franklin has a rivalry football game called ' Fire on the Bayou.

The 2004 team was followed in 2005 with what many call the " best Pottsville High team ever ", which featured great athletes on both sides of the ball, went 13-2 overall ( 9-1 regular season ), a second straight AAA District XI Title, state playoff game wins over Pennsylvania state powers Strath Haven and Manheim Central and an appearance in the program's first state title game on December 9, 2005-a game they would lose 23-13 to AAA state champion Franklin Regional.

... according to ( Cleveland writer ) Franklin Lewis, manager Lee Fohl had come to rely heavily on ... Speaker for counsel on changing pitchers during a game.

For the remainder of the decade, he occasionally made television appearances, including guest appearances on In Living Color ( including as contestant Damian " Foosball " Franklin in the recurring game show sketch " The Dirty Dozens " and as Marlon Cain in " Ed Bacon: Guidance Counselor ") and in a 1996 freestyle rap commercial on MTV2.

In the first season of the CFL, the Ottawa Rough Riders and the Hamilton Tiger-Cats made history when they played the first regular season CFL game at Philadelphia's Franklin Field on August 23, 1958.

Collector knives, figurines, plates, Monopoly sets, chess sets and board games including the three dimensional chess game featured in the original Star Trek TV series, plaques, and other collectibles have been issued by the Franklin Mint.

Beginning with the 2010 game, Franklin American Mortgage served as title sponsor, though Gaylord still served as a major sponsor of the event.

" The Turk's final game in Paris was against Benjamin Franklin, who was serving as ambassador to France from the United States.

The song was first played during the Army – Navy football game on December 1, 1906, at Franklin Field in Philadelphia.

It is also the site of the Franklin American Mortgage Music City Bowl, a postseason college football game played each December, and is occasionally used as a venue for soccer matches.

As such, his work has been featured on such diverse items as Franklin Mint collectible plates, including a twelve-piece set commemorating the life of Princess Diana, the 1996 cover for Milton Bradley's board game Clue, and U. S. postage stamps.

On Saturday, November 16, 2002, ESPN broadcast College GameDay from Franklin Field prior to the game between Penn and Harvard.

On October 11, 1959, NFL Commissioner Bert Bell died after suffering a heart-attack at Franklin Field during the last two-minutes of the game between the Eagles and Pittsburgh Steelers.

Later, denying drunkenness, Cosell claimed that he had been dizzy from running laps around Franklin Field's track before the game with track star Tommie Smith.

1908 Army-Navy game at Franklin Field

The Army-Navy football game was played 18 times at Franklin Field between 1899 and 1935 before moving to the larger Municipal Stadium in South Philadelphia in 1936.

On August 23, 1958, the first Canadian Football League game played on American soil between two Canadian teams was played at Franklin Field, as the Hamilton Tiger-Cats defeated the Ottawa Rough Riders, 13-7.

Franklin Field hosted a United States Football League divisional semi-final game on June 30, 1984, between the host Philadelphia Stars and the visiting New Jersey Generals.

The Stars were forced to play the game at Franklin Field because the Philadelphia Phillies had a game scheduled at Veterans Stadium that weekend.

John Adams fashioned much of pre-Revolutionary radical ideology, wrote the constitution of his home state of Massachusetts, negotiated, with Franklin and Jay, the peace with Britain and served as our first Vice President and our second President.

If Franklin was an authentic genius, then Alexander Hamilton, with his exceptional precocity, consuming energy, and high ambition, was a political prodigy.

in others by business and professional acumen, as with Franklin and Adams, or, in Hamilton's case, by an influential marriage.

Hearst's luck was even poorer when he had a chat with Franklin K. Lane, a prominent California journalist and reform politician, whom he asked for his support.

It had required the approval of President Franklin Delano Roosevelt before the John Harvey could be loaded with 100 tons of mustard gas and despatched to the Italian warfront.

The hotly debated plan for the capital's Franklin D. Roosevelt Memorial, a circle of huge tablets engraved with his speeches ( and promptly dubbed by one of its critics, `` Instant Stonehenge '' ), is another of Udall's headaches, since as supervisor of the National Parks Commission he will share in the responsibility for building it.

A thug struck a cab driver in the face with a pistol last night after robbing him of $18 at Franklin and Mount Streets.

He also speaks of Franklin D. Roosevelt's `` puerile '' assumption that `` if only he ( Stalin ) could be exposed to the persuasive charm of someone like F.D.R. himself, ideological preconceptions would melt and Russia's co-operation with the West could be easily arranged ''.

* 1938 – The Thousand Islands Bridge, connecting New York, United States with Ontario, Canada over the Saint Lawrence River, is dedicated by U. S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt.

Benjamin Franklin was familiar with Antoine, as they were both members of the " Benjamin Franklin inquiries " into Mesmer and animal magnetism.

" This character, along with the Shmoos, helped cement Capp's favor with the Left, and would increase their outrage a decade later when Capp, a former Franklin D. Roosevelt liberal, switched targets.

He finished with an approval rating of 68 %, which matched those of Ronald Reagan and Franklin D. Roosevelt as the highest ratings for departing presidents in the modern era.

In the 1950s, James D. Watson, Francis Crick, Rosalind Franklin, and Maurice Wilkins were instrumental in solving DNA structure and suggesting its relationship with genetic transfer of information.

Franklin was foundational in defining the American ethos as a marriage of the practical values of thrift, hard work, education, community spirit, self-governing institutions, and opposition to authoritarianism both political and religious, with the scientific and tolerant values of the Enlightenment.

Josiah Franklin had 17 children with his two wives.

* Ben Franklin Stores chain of variety stores, with a key-and-spark logo

" Benjamin Franklin ," Dictionary of American Biography ( 1931 ) – vol 3, with hot links online

The Life of Benjamin Franklin the most detailed scholarly biography, with very little interpretation ; 3 volumes appeared before the author's death in 2008

* Booknotes interview with James Srodes on Franklin: The Essential Founding Father, May 19, 2002.

Both ships were soon fighting enemies much more powerful than themselves and began to take severe damage: Captain Henry Darby on Bellerophon missed his intended anchor near Franklin and instead found his ship underneath the main battery of the French flagship, while Captain George Blagdon Westcott on Majestic also missed his station and almost collided with Heureux, coming under heavy fire from Tonnant.

Franklin remained in combat, but Blanquet had suffered a severe head wound and Captain Gillet had been carried below unconscious with severe wounds.

Swiftsure, Alexander and Franklin were all set alight by falling wreckage although in each case teams of sailors with water buckets succeeded in extinguishing the flames, despite a secondary explosion on Franklin.