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RIP: Shelby Foote

28 Jun 2005

Shelby Foote, the the primary narrator of Ken Burns’ Civil War mini-series, died Monday night at age 88. [here]

His voice was like butter melting in a hot frying pan. I loved listening to him speak. I will miss him.

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Mark in Mexico

Shelby Foote dies.
In one of the greatest documentaries ever filmed, The Civil War, by Ken Burns, Foote told two stories which I will never forget. He related a telephone conversation with the granddaughter of Nathan Bedford Forrest, Confederate General and founder of ...

david parmet

I burned through all three in less than a year and then did a trip with a buddy to Gettysburgh to pay homage.

What a voice, what a writer. We'll miss him.

Stephen Pierzchala is one of a 10-year veteran of the Web performance field who also writes on topics that interest his non-linear world-view.