George Tiller planned to start a dermatology residency. However, on August 21, 1970, his parents, sister and brother-in-law were killed in an aircraft accident. In her will, his sister requested that Tiller take care of her one-year-old son. Tiller had intended to go back to Wichita, close up his father's family practice and then go back to become a dermatologist. However, he quickly felt pressure to take over his father's family practice. Tiller's father had performed abortions at his practice. After hearing about a woman who had died from an illegal abortion, Tiller stayed in Wichita to continue his father's practice. At
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