George Tiller acid attacks on abortion clinics. Tiller was fatally shot in the side of the head on May 31, 2009, by anti-abortion extremist Scott Roeder during worship services at the Reformation Lutheran Church in Wichita, where he was serving as an usher and handing out church bulletins. After threatening to shoot two people who initially pursued him, Roeder fled and escaped in a car. Three hours after the shooting, Roeder was arrested about away in suburban Kansas City. On June 2, 2009, Roeder was charged with first-degree murder and two counts of aggravated assault in connection with the shooting, subsequently convicted
George Garrett (activist) a merchant seaman, writer, playwright and founder member of the Unity Theatre, Liverpool. He was a radical activist who travelled the world and wrote a series of short stories, plays and pieces of reportage about hunger and unemployment in the 1930s. He was a syndicalist who joined the Wobblies when he lived in New York for three years, and was influenced by the Irish American Playwright, Eugene O'Neill. He died of throat cancer on 28 May 1966. George Garrett (activist) George Garrett (13 August 1896 Seacombe – 28 May 1966) was a British labour activist, writer and actor. He was