KIXS FM 108 » terrorist attacks http://kixs.com The Country Leader Sat, 18 May 2013 21:41:45 +0000 en-US hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.4.2 Aprill Brandon: "A Mile Away from Tragedy" http://kixs.com/aprill-brandon-a-mile-away-from-tragedy/ http://kixs.com/aprill-brandon-a-mile-away-from-tragedy/#comments Fri, 19 Apr 2013 14:54:59 +0000 Skeeter Nash http://kixs.com/?p=150800 Former Crossroads resident and Victoria Advocate entertainment reporter, Aprill Brandon, was a guest (via telephone from her current home in Boston, MA) on Skeeter's show this morning. Aprill was about a mile away from the site of the terrorist bombings at the finish line of the Boston Marathon on April 15th, and she wrote a blog piece chronicling her experiences on that tragic day.

]]> http://kixs.com/aprill-brandon-a-mile-away-from-tragedy/feed/ 0 Aprill Brandon Marlon Brando, Michael Jackson, Elizabeth Taylor Took Post-9/11 Road Trip Together http://kixs.com/marlon-brando-michael-jackson-elizabeth-taylor-took-post-911-road-trip-together/ http://kixs.com/marlon-brando-michael-jackson-elizabeth-taylor-took-post-911-road-trip-together/#comments Fri, 06 May 2011 13:30:57 +0000 Amory Gritta http://kixs.com/?p=3928 According to an article in this month's Vanity Fair, eccentric superstars Elizabeth Taylor and Marlon Brando were in New York to see a concert performance by their good friend Michael Jackson when the terrorist attacks on Sept. 11 occurred. Fearing more terrorism, Jackson moved his entire entourage, which included Taylor and Brando, to New Jersey the day after the World Trade Center towers fell.

At that point, with all flights cancelled, Jackson rented a car and headed West with Taylor and Brando in tow.

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