Half Past Autumn (Pt. 1 & 2)

1. The doctor plunged his bloody remains into a tub of  icy water and miraculously saved his life.
2. Mr. Parks was born in Fort Scott, Kansas.
3. Ms. McClintock told Mr. Parks that not many Negros went to college.
4. He was 15 when his mother died.
5. Gordon moved in with his sister in Minnesota after his mother's death.
6. Gordon Parks did not finish high school but he graduated college.
7. He went into the store and the lady in there asked what he wanted, and he said he shot fashion after coming back tomorrow.
8. Double exposure was a correspondence of two images.
9. Joe Louis an American professional boxer and the World Heavyweight Champion from 1937 to 1949.
10. Gordon played the upright piano, and the viola.
11. The purpose of the Farm Security Administration was to describe photographs that would work as a time capsule for evidence in the future or a certain method that a person can use for a frame of reference.
12. When Roy Stryker hired Gordon for the FSA, his first assignment for Gordon Parks in
Washington D.C. was created one of his best-known photographs, American Gothic.
13. Ella Watson was a pioneer of Wyoming who became erroneously known as Cattle Kate, a post-claimed outlaw of the Old West.
14. The inspiration for Grant Wood's American Gothic was the image after encountering racism repeatedly in restaurants and shops in the segregated capital city.
15. Moving to Harlem, Parks became a freelance fashion photographer for Vogue. He later followed Stryker to the Standard Oil Photography Project in New Jersey, which assigned photographers to take pictures of small towns and industrial centers.  
16. The FSA ended in 1946.
17. After Gordon moved to New York, he shot for Life Magazine.
18. Alexander Liberman was the picture editor.
19. Flash Photography (1947) was the first major story Parks covered for Life Magazine.
20. Malcolm X, Stokely Carmichael, Muhammad Ali, and Barbra Streisand were some of the artists that Gordon Parks mentioned influenced his work after he moved to the Paris Life Magazine bureau.
21. Parks photographed fashion for Vogue in the next few years for his compentary lives.
22. Parks' concerto was performed in Hollywood, CA.
23. Park's second wife was Carol Ann Park. Carol Anne Park's father was Sally Alvis. Carol Park went missing on 17 July 1976, and was never seen alive again by her family.
24. Flavio de Silva was 12 years old.
25. Parks met Flavio on Jun. 16, 1961.
26. Flavio lived in Catacumba favela (slum) in the hills outside Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
27. Gloria Laura Vanderbilt is an American artist, author, actress, heiress and socialite, noted as an early developer of designer blue jeans. Her favorite son is Anderson Cooper. Her ancestors are  Herbert Shipman, Reginald Claypoole Vanderbilt, and his second wife, Gloria Morgan.
28. Gloria Vanderbilt was confirmed in the Catholic Church, to which her mother belonged. From her father's first marriage to Cathleen Neilson, she had a half-sister, Cathleen Vanderbilt. However, Reginald Vanderbilt died.
29. Gordon parks was a self-taught artist who authored several books of poetry, which he illustrated with his own photographs, and he wrote three volumes of memoirs.
30. Beginning in the 1960s, completed Tree Symphony in 1967. In 1989, he composed and directed Martin, a ballet dedicated to Martin Luther King, Jr., the civil rights leader who had been assassinated.
31. Alexander Liberman was his editor.
32. Parks created The Learning Tree (1963) for Life Magazine on Segregation in the South.