The great storyteller and Civil War buff has passed on. Major bummer. He was the best thing about Ken Burn's Civil War and afterwards I tackled his massive 3 volume history of the Civil War. It is in a word-amazing

Very charismatic guy who himself looked as if he stepped out of a portrait of a Civil War veteran.

Steve

So this thread does not go unheralded, here's to Msr Foote.



Undoubtedly, this is class.

Yeah, he made the Burns series for me. Damn. Wonder what he died from?

He died from being 88, I think.

This does suck. He was great in Burn's thing and great in many of the docs that I had to watch in HS history.

Also, a natty dresser and probably king hell monger to boot (That's opium in that pipe, don'tcha know)

I have the 3-volume set sitting on my bookshelf waiting to be read by me. I will tackle some day in the not too distant future.

He was a great writer and had a great voice.

my grandfather is 2 years overdue, then.


<------ was hoping it involved a hotel room and a hooker.
<------ pretty much always hopes for that.
<------ just got creeped out by having grandfather and hooker in same post.

In the obit printed in the Register (half page spread, natch...he had something to do with the Civil War ) It says no cause of death was given


also, he is one of the lucky few for whom there is an obvious choice to play him in his biopic: Donald Sutherland

Or the dude who played the Architect in Matrix: Reloaded*.

*Cannot believe I paid to see that pile. At least I only spent a dollar (40.000 lei) at the Cinema Patria.

I was fortunate to meet him after attending a lecture in New Orleans back in the mid-80's. He was even more gracious, engaging, and self-effacing in person than the perception on tv. A gentleman of the highest order.