Human Race

CHARGED: A jury pool four times the normal size will report Oct. 20 to an Alabama courtroom to begin jury selection in a trial dating back to a 1965 killing that made civil rights history. In a bid to seat an impartial panel, Circuit Court Judge Tommy Jones ordered 600 jurors to report for questioning in the trial of former Alabama state trooper James Bonard Fowler. When a Feb. 18, 1965, civil-rights demonstration erupted into a mêlée between marchers and police, Fowler shot Jimmie Lee Jackson, who later died at a Selma, Ala., hospital. A grand jury in 1965 did not return an indictment against Fowler.

DIED: Hollywood icon Paul Newman, the Oscar-winning actor who starred in films such as Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid and The Sting, died Sept. 26 from cancer. Married for 50 years to actress Joanne Woodward, in 1982 Newman helped launch Newman's Own, a multimillion-dollar food company that donates all of its profits to charity—a sum totaling more than $250 million thus far. Newman once told friends that of all his achievements, he wanted to be remembered for the "Hole in the Wall" camps he founded around the world for severely ill children.