Almanac for October 5th

Erin O'Riordan's Almanac for October 5th: https://ko-fi.com/post/October-5-Mr-Toads-Wild-Ride-W7W0140YQR

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Bummer October 5th

October 5, 1995: 50-year-old voice actor Linda Gary, who provided an impressive number of cartoon characters with their voices in American animation of the ‘70s and ‘80s, dies of brain cancer.

October 5, 2001: Robert Stevens, a photographer for the tabloid newspaper Sun in Boca Raton, Florida, dies of pulmonary anthrax. His death is the first in a series of anthrax terror attacks that killed Stevens and four other people and sickened 17 others. 

Microbiologist Bruce Ivins is the lead suspect in the FBI investigation into the anthrax attacks. He dies by suicide before he can be arrested and charged.

October 5, 2003: Environmentalists Timothy Treadwell (nicknamed “Grizzly Man”) and Amie Huguenard are attacked, killed, and partially eaten by a brown bear while camping and setting up film equipment in Katmai National Park, Alaska. 

Their video camera, apparently with the lens cap on (or otherwise unable to capture any light), recorded six minutes of audio of the attack. Film director Werner Herzog, who made the documentary Grizzly Man about the attack, listened to the audio, but deemed it too horrifying to use in the documentary.