1999 - Unarmed West African immigrant Amadou Diallo[?] is shot dead by four plainclothes New York City police officers on an unrelated stake-out, enflaming race-relations in the city.
... was Thornton Wilder) who began acting on Broadway in 1936.
He was typecast as the wasp-tongued, supercillious sophisticate. His most famous role is that of the cranky ...