NYT obit for Frederic Rzewski, which went up after I posted yesterday.
John Langley. He was perhaps best known as the creator of “COPS”.
Apart from Cops, Langley also produced American Vice: The Doping of a Nation, which showed live drug arrests on television. Other credits include Inside American Jail and Las Vegas Jailhouse; documentaries Cocaine Blues, American Expose: Who Murdered JFK?, Anatomy of a Crime and Terrorism: Target U.S.A.;and series’ Video Justice, Undercover Stings, Jail, Street Patrol, Vegas Strip and Road Warriors.
He also was involved in off-road racing, and apparently did quite well at that:
In 2009 and 2010, Langley’s team, COPS Racing, took first place in its class in the Baja 1000, an off-road motorsports event held annually in Baja California.
He died of an apparent heart attack while his team was competing in the “Coast to Coast Ensenada-San Felipe 250” this past weekend.
I have not seen this elsewhere, but “Reason” is reporting the death of libertarian economist Steve Horwitz.
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