Directors. 1  Jon Barwise 1983â1985. 2  John Perry 1985â1986, 1993â1999. 3  Thomas Wasow 1986â1987, 2006â2007. 4  John Etchemendy 1990â1993. 5  David Israel c. 1999-2000. 6  Byron Reeves c. 2001â2005. 7  Stanley Peters 2008â2013. 8  Chris Potts 2013âpresent.
On December Jack Cassidy died in a fire at his West Hollywood apartment. He was 49 years old. Cassidy had fallen asleep while smoking and the cigarette had set fire to the couch. The fire then spread throughout the apartment.
John Moisant died of a broken neck in December 31, 1910 in an air crash while making a preparatory flight in his attempt to win the Michelin Cap. The accident took place in the current location of Luis Armstrong New Orleans International Airport. The owners wanted to honor him, so they called the stock yards the Moisant Stock Yards, or MSY for short: certainly the best airport code story of all.