The estate of EH Shepard also received a sum in the deal.

In 1915, Shepard received a commission in the Royal Artillery.

Helm received many plaudits for his acting debut in Coal Miner's Daughter, a biographical film about Loretta Lynn, and for his narration and small supporting role opposite Sam Shepard in 1983's The Right Stuff.

During a pre-trial hearing, a Laramie police officer testified that the violence against Shepard was due to how the attacker " about gays ," per an interview of the attacker's girlfriend who said she received that explanation.

Dirkhising's death received only regional media coverage until a Washington Times article ran a story nearly a month after his death, noting the lack of national coverage in contrast to that given to the 1998 death of Matthew Shepard.

The added attention resulted in mainstream media also reporting the Dirkhising case in relation to the coverage of the Shepard case, with many attempting to explain why the two were handled differently by the media, and perhaps received differently by readers.

" The story contrasted the lack of coverage of the Dirkhising case with the treatment the murder of Matthew Shepard received.

The Coast Guard traces the lineage of Commandants back to Captain Leonard G. Shepard, chief of the Revenue Marine Bureau, even though he never officially received the title of Captain-Commandant.

In Los Angeles, Hugh played Franklin Shepard in Merrily We Roll Along and received an Ovation Award nomination for his performance as Kenneth in Call Me Madam, both for Reprise !.

Hicks's first Hollywood studio film Snow Falling on Cedars ( 1999 ) starring Ethan Hawke, Max von Sydow and Sam Shepard, and based on David Guterson's novel of the same title, also received an Academy Award nomination.

Shepard wrote two autobiographies: Drawn from Memory ( 1957 ) and Drawn From Life ( 1962 ).

* 1998 – Matthew Shepard, a gay student at the University of Wyoming, is found tied to a fence after being savagely beaten by two young adults in Laramie, Wyoming.

Shepard had predicted that the two tones would constitute a bistable figure, the auditory equivalent of the Necker cube, that could be heard ascending or descending, but never both at the same time.

Shepard was born in Casper, Wyoming, the first of two sons born to Judy Peck and Dennis Shepard.

Shepard first ordered warning shots fired over the approaching Shaysites ' heads, and then ordered two cannons to fire grape shot at Shays's men.

Shepard predicted that the two tones would constitute a bistable figure, the auditory equivalent of the Necker cube, that could be heard ascending or descending, but never both at the same time.

While both victims died as the result of assaults by two men, Dirkhising was a minor and the victim of a sex crime, while Shepard, an adult, was murdered as part of a hate crime.

While homosexuality has been cited as an issue in both cases, the circumstances were different and in contrast: Shepard was an openly gay man who was attacked by two heterosexual men, while Dirkhising was raped by two men who were described as " lovers " in a police affidavit.

Also the sexualities of the victims and attackers differed somewhat with Shepard being an openly gay man attacked by two heterosexual men, while Dirkhising's attackers were lovers and presumed to be gay.

Many of the articles justified the lack of coverage, citing that the death did not justify national attention ; initial reports failed to mention that the two perpetrators were gay, whereas the Shepard reports identified Shepard as gay and the crimes as hate crimes from the beginning.

In a November 4, 1999, Time magazine article, Jonathan Gregg opined that accusations of liberal media bias were not justified because the two cases varied with the Dirkhising murder offering " no lessons ," whereas the Shepard murder " touches on a host of complex and timely issues: intolerance, society's attitudes toward gays and the pressure to conform, the use of violence as a means of confronting one's demons.

While Shepard and Mitchell spent two days on the lunar surface, Roosa conducted experiments from orbit in the command module " Kitty Hawk ".

At the Sculpture Centre, he met American artist Tim Shepard who had been invited to use studio space there, and the two became friends.

The group came into the national spotlight in 1998, when it was featured on CNN for picketing the funeral of Matthew Shepard, a young man from Wyoming who was beaten to death by two men because of his homosexuality.

The most publicized incident was the murder of Matthew Shepard in Wyoming after two young men kidnapped, tortured, and murdered him in 1998.

One notable trek was the Transglobe Expedition he undertook between 1979 and 1982 when he and two fellow members of 21 SAS, Oliver Shepard and Charles R. Burton, journeyed around the world on its polar axis, using surface transport only.

He dropped out after two years, however, and returned to Rochester, where he married his first wife, Anne Shepard, in 1909.

Despite the extensive medical evaluation, two of the seven ( Shepard and Slayton ) were soon grounded for undiagnosed medical conditions and sat out the entirety of Project Gemini and most of the Apollo program ( and Mercury as well, in Slayton's case ) supervising the active astronauts.

His extant writings are three sermons — two preached at the annual election of the artillery company in 1672 and 1676, and the third at the election of representatives in 1673 — and a monody in English verse ( Cambridge, 1677 ) on the death of Thomas Shepard, minister of the church in Charlestown.

William Shepard Walsh attributes this verse featuring two multiple-word rhymes for orange to W. W. Skeat.

That same year, she also won the Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Miniseries or a Movie and the Screen Actors Guild Award for Best Actress in a Television Movie or Miniseries for her portrayal of Judy Shepard in The Matthew Shepard Story, a docudrama about Matthew Shepard's life and murder.

* Primetime Emmy Award in 2002 for " Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Miniseries or a Movie " for Stockard Channing for her role as Judy Shepard

He moved to New York City in 1980 to appear in a Steppenwolf production of the Sam Shepard play True West for which he won an Obie Award.

Lucius Shepard has won several awards for his science fiction: in 1985 he won John W. Campbell Award for best new writer, followed in 1986 with a best novella Nebula Award for his story " R & R ", which later became part of his 1987 novel Life During Wartime.

Nancy Kress, George R. R. Martin, Kim Stanley Robinson, and Lucius Shepard have each earned six nominations, and are the only authors besides Willis and Silverberg to get more than four.

Silverberg's eight nominations are the most of any author, followed by Lucius Shepard and Michael Bishop at seven, and Kate Wilhelm and Avram Davidson with six.

E. H. Shepard drew on the landscapes of Ashdown Forest as inspiration for many of the illustrations he provided for the Pooh books.

By 1906 Shepard had become a successful illustrator, having produced work for illustrated editions of Aesop's Fables, David Copperfield, and Tom Brown's Schooldays, as well as an illustration for Punch.

By 1916 Shepard started working for the Intelligence Department sketching the combat area within the view of his battery position.

Realising his illustrator's contribution to the book's success, Milne arranged for Shepard to receive a share of his royalties.

* » The Man who drew Pooh «: Obituary for Ernest Howard Shepard

* 1971 – Apollo program: Apollo 14 – Astronauts Alan Shepard, Stuart Roosa, and Edgar Mitchell, aboard a Saturn V, lift off for a mission to the Fra Mauro Highlands on the Moon.

Some of his more successful and critically acclaimed movies, Paris, Texas and Wings of Desire, for example, have been the result of fruitful collaborations with avant-garde authors Peter Handke and Sam Shepard.

* Matthew Shepard is murdered near the University of Wyoming for being gay.

In early 1964 Alan Shepard was grounded after being diagnosed with Ménière's disease and Grissom was designated command pilot for Gemini 3, the first manned Project Gemini flight, which flew on March 23, 1965.

Besides hosting the Brahmas ' football and women's soccer teams, John Shepard Stadium ( current capacity 5, 500 ) The stadium was expanded to 16, 000-person capacity for the game.

Shepard Stadium hosts Nuts for Mutts, an annual dog show and pet fair that raises funds for the New Leash on Life Animal Rescue.

** Fool for Love – Sam Shepard

In 1950, David H. Shepard, a cryptanalyst at the Armed Forces Security Agency in the United States, addressed the problem of converting printed messages into machine language for computer processing and built a machine to do this, called " Gismo .".

* In his book Gödel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid, Douglas Hofstadter explains how Shepard scales can be used on the Canon a 2, per tonos in Bach's Musical Offering ( called the Endlessly Rising Canon by Hofstadter ) for making the modulation end in the same pitch instead of an octave higher.

He began acting in Off Broadway productions, including The Young Master Dante by Werner Liepolt and a play by Sam Shepard, and also did some photo shoot modeling for National Lampoon, before moving on to film.

Shepard returned to Patuxent for a second tour of duty and engaged in flight testing the F3H Demon, F8U Crusader, F4D Skyray, and F11F Tiger.

In 1959, Shepard was one of 11 military test pilots invited by the newly-formed National Aeronautics and Space Administration to volunteer for the first US manned space flight program.

In January 1961, Shepard was chosen for the first American manned mission into space.

* Matthew Shepard, gay male murder victim for whom the Matthew Shepard Hate Crime Act is named