American Airlines Flight 191 - Notable Victims

Notable Victims

Some notable victims in the crash of Flight 191 were:

• Itzhak Bentov, a biomedical inventor (the cardiac catheter), New Age author (Stalking the Wild Pendulum and A Cosmic Book) and kundalini researcher
• Sheila Charisse, the daughter-in-law of movie actress Cyd Charisse
• Leonard Stogel, music business manager/promoter/producer/executive for California Jam and California Jam II, Sweathog (band), The Cowsills, Sam the Sham, Tommy James & The Shondells, Redbone, Gentle Giant, and other musical groups
• Several people in relation with Playboy magazine:
  • Several members of the American Booksellers Association who were on their way to their annual convention at the Los Angeles Convention Center, where they were to have a joint party organized by Playboy founder Hugh Hefner
  • Victoria Haider, magazine editor for Playboy magazine (and sometimes editor of Harlan Ellison)
  • Judith Wax and her husband, Sheldon Wax. Judith Wax frequently contributed to Playboy (Sheldon was its managing editor), notably the annual "Christmas cards" piece that "presented" short satirical poems to various public figures. In her 1979 book, Starting in the Middle, she had written about her fear of flying on page 191.
• Francis Gemme, president of Children's Press in Chicago.
• Robert Walton Vaughan, Professor of Chemical Engineering, California Institute of Technology, leading researcher in NMR and catalysis.