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Who was born in Bensonhurst, New York?

Moe. Moe Howard was born Moses Horwitz on June 19, 1897 in the small Jewish community of Bensonhurst, New York. Jack Kevorkian was born in Pontiac, Michigan on May 26, 1928. Manny Ramirez was born May 30, 1972 in Santo Domingo in the Dominican Republic.

Whose father drove a cab for a living?

Manny. Manny's parents left the Dominican Republic in 1983 and moved to New York, hoping to build a better life in America. Manny's father got a job as a cab driver, while his mother found work in a sewing factory. After two years with their grandparents, Manny and his sisters joined their parents in 1985. Kevorkian's father was an auto worker. Moe Howard's father was a clothing cutter, while his mother was a real estate entrepreneur.

Who briefly took electric shop classes at Baron DeHirsch Trade School?

Moe. Though he made very high marks in his younger years, Moe's interest in acting, and his truancy to attend the theater, caused his school work to suffer. After dropping out of high school, Moe's parents urged him to learn a trade rather than pursue a career in entertainment. Moe tried to follow their wishes, but quit the trade school in New York after a few months.

Who ran a 6.5 second 60 yard dash in high school?

Manny. Manny was, not surprisingly, a star on his baseball team at George Washington High School in New York. Manny could hit for power and rarely struck out, but it was his great speed that made him a base stealing threat as well.

Who had aspirations of being a baseball announcer when he was in junior high?

Jack. Kevorkian, born to Armenian immigrants, grew up in Pontiac, Michigan during The Great Depression. With little money, young Jack found comfort and enjoyment listening to baseball games on the radio. He dreamed of being the one broadcasting those games, but a medical career sparked his interest by the time he began attending the University of Michigan.

Who was related by marriage to magician Harry Houdini?

Moe. On June 7th, 1925, Moe Howard married Harry Houdini's cousin, Helen Schonberger. When she became pregnant, Helen urged Moe to leave show business and find more stable work. Moe briefly worked in real estate and tried opening his own retail store, but he found it difficult to make a living with an ordinary job. Almost two years after leaving show business, Howard returned to performing.

Joe Delucca played a large part in someone's career. Was it Manny, Moe, or Jack?

Manny. Joe Delucca was a scout for the Cleveland Indians. Joe helped sign Manny to a $250,000 bonus contract with Cleveland in 1991, assigning him to the Indians Burlington farm team in the Appalachian League.

"People misinterpret his shyness for being surly, moody, self-absorbed. He has to let people know him. He has to share." A family member said this about one of the three. Is it a quote about Manny, Moe, or Jack?

Manny. Manny's sister Clara said this about her baseball playing brother. Manny once described himself as "very timid", and once said, "I don't know how to express myself enough." Growing up speaking Spanish, the language barrier may have been one of the reasons Ramirez was reluctant to speak to reporters. After signing with the Boston Red Sox in 2001, Ramirez was noticeably more relaxed when talking to the media.

Who was breast fed until he was almost four years old?

Manny. In Santo Domingo during the early and mid seventies, milk in the poor neighborhoods was often harmful or nonexistent. Growing up in poverty, Manny's family compensated by doing several things out of the ordinary, such as breast feeding the children to a much older age.

Who was once the president of the Spastic Children's Guild?

Moe. Moe Howard was very different than the leader of the Three Stooges he played on screen. Moe was very introverted and found it difficult to express his feeling to others. He would often give gifts as a way of showing his feelings for someone, and took great joy in helping the needy. A life long member and three time president of the Spastic Children's Guild, Moe would play Santa for the children and commit himself, as well as the other Stooges, to hundreds of benefit performances each year.

Whose hobby was painting?

Jack. Many of Kevorkian's paintings centered around death and violence. For a painting he called "Genocide", Kevorkian stained the frame with his own blood.

Who fathered two children named Joan and Paul?

Moe. Moe and his wife Helen were blessed with Joan in 1926. Paul was born in 1934, the same year The Three Stooges signed with Colombia Studios to make their classic short films.

Janet Adkins played a significant role in whose life?

Jack. Janet Adkins, a 54 year old in the early stages of Alzheimer's, was Jack Kevorkian's first assisted suicide. Two days after video taping a session in which he asked Adkins several questions to determine her mental state, Kevokian set up the machine he called the Mercitron in the back of his Volkswagen van where the suicide took place.

"The Jews were gassed. Armenians were killed in every conceivable way. They were drowned, burned, heads were smashed in vises. So the Holocaust doesn't interest me. They didn't suffer as much." Does this quote belong to Manny, Moe, or Jack?

Jack. Jack was the son of Armenian refugees and grew up hearing stories of the mass killing of Armenians by Turks during World War 1. Some have pointed to quotes like this one as an example of Kevorkian's obsession with death.

Who built a Mercitron on his kitchen table?

Jack. The Mercitron is the machine Kevorkian used to assist people in committing suicide. After inserting a needle into a vein in the arm, the person committing suicide would hit a switch, injecting sodium pentothal which made them fall asleep within seconds. After about a minute, a lethal dose of potassium chloride entered the body, obviously causing death.